Senior Scientist

This post within the Immunisations and Vaccine Preventable Diseases provides epidemiological and data management support across a number of areas. The post holder will contribute to enhanced surveillance systems and research studies of respiratory diseases and lead and support the data collection and validation, and production of routine surveillance intelligence in these areas. You will analyse and interpret surveillance data and develop automated routines and solutions as well as overseeing and responding to more complex or sensitive data requests. This will be through their application of, and expertise in, analytical, statistical, database, mapping and web tools, underpinned by knowledge of information and data science approaches. You will also carry out the epidemiological investigation of incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases, supporting others across the directorate, local Health Protection Teams and in collaboration with other partners. This will include the design, implementation, analysis and interpretation of analytical studies in a variety of settings and supporting team members in carrying out these tasks. The post holder will contribute to public health scientific analyses and writing reports on specific projects, regular and ad hoc publications and peer reviewed publications.,

• Identify surveillance needs within given lead areas, create surveillance system specifications, conduct complex statistical analyses and interpret surveillance data, making appropriate recommendations, develop automated routines and solutions and supervise / assure on the preparation, quality and delivery of routine and ad hoc surveillance reports.
• Respond to complex or sensitive data requests
• Where appropriate, lead and manage the technical and analytical
• Apply a range of common statistical tests and algorithms and translate statistical processes into automated solutions where appropriate
• Use common statistical/database/mapping/web tools such as Stata, R, ArcGIS, Access, SQL and SharePoint in routine reports, surveillance activities
• Advise on quality and governance issues including information security for all aspects of surveillance work, evaluating existing systems, and use to improve standards and consistency across the team
• Contribute to the Immunisation and Countermeasures Department quality programme
• Project manage research studies, analysing datasets with appropriate methodology to answer research questions
• Present at scientific conferences, programme area meetings and other for a and publish and present scientific papers on public health surveillance, respiratory viruses and infectious disease control
• Contribute to teaching/training programmes and activities
• Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners
  
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