Epidemiological Analyst

Role overview

Surveillance, analysis and reporting

• Develop and maintain surveillance systems and databases with scientific, clinical, laboratory and Health Protection colleagues.
• Create queries and validation checks to remove duplicates and improve data quality and completeness.
• Liaise with stakeholders, clinicians, laboratories and Health Protection Teams about surveillance data, cases and outbreaks.
• Run queries and prepare annual surveillance reports, routine and ad hoc outputs, and responses to information requests.
• Prepare annual datasets for international organisations, including WHO and ECDC.
• Contribute to scientific papers and Department of Health and JCVI reports; present findings at internal and national meetings and conferences.

Websites and project support

• Maintain disease-specific UKHSA website pages and dashboards, validating content and ensuring it meets guidelines.
• Maintain disease-specific Reference Manager databases with scientific and medical staff.
• Support databases and websites for other infectious disease surveillance projects.
• Support departmental staff with website maintenance, surveillance databases, database queries and report running.

Knowledge and experience

• Understand vaccines, how they work and their utility in the national immunisation programme.
• Be proficient with database platforms and tools including R, MS Access and SQL.
• Have experience using statistical packages for epidemiological analyses and writing scientific papers for publication.
• Be comfortable presenting research at local and national meetings and conferences.

Working relationships

Professional development

• Maintain continuing professional development in line with relevant professional, statutory and service requirements.
• Agree performance, training and development needs with the line manager through appraisal and development planning.
• Attend relevant training, share data-science practices, promote best practice and complete mandatory training, including fire safety and information governance.