Personal Assistant

The UKHSA Public Health Laboratories are unique in having a managed network strategically placed across the country, that together with national centres, deliver a total microbiology service, providing end to end diagnostic services with specialist consultant specialist clinical advice. This network provides the national surveillance information and evidence for controlling outbreaks, effective public health interventions and for the prevention of a wide range of infectious disease affecting the population. The managed network of clinical and public health laboratories is based throughout England in various strategic locations including Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, and Manchester, providing specialist public health and diagnostic microbiology. Public health microbiology is also provided by collaborating centres at Brighton, Newcastle, Leeds and Southampton. The network also comprises of three food water and environmental laboratories (London, Porton and York), which perform a range
of specialist microbiology tests on food, water and environmental samples to local authorities, Port Health authorities, the NHS and nationally to Food Standards Agency., The post-holder will have responsibility for administrative functions for the Colindale Sequencing Laboratory in the UKHSA. This comprises of a high throughput and regional sequencing.

The primary responsibility of the post-holder will be to manage their day-to-day workload and use their initiative with limited supervision and necessitates a thorough understanding of the role/work and relevant procedures, as well as excellent judgement, organisational ability, and communication skills. Much of the work is non-routine and requires an ability to cope with working to tight and multiple deadlines.

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.