Epidemiological Analyst

Role summary

Key duties

• Maintain and develop 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.
• Maintain UKHSA website pages and dashboards, validating content against relevant guidelines.
• Run database queries and prepare annual surveillance reports; support ad hoc queries and information requests.
• Prepare annual datasets for international organisations, including WHO and ECDC.
• Maintain disease-specific Reference Manager databases and contribute to scientific papers and departmental reports.
• Present surveillance findings at meetings and conferences and support other infectious disease surveillance projects.
• Support departmental staff with website maintenance, databases, querying, and report running.

About you

• Understand vaccines, how they work, and their utility in the national immunisation programme.
• Be proficient with R, MS Access, SQL, and other database platforms and tools.
• Have experience using statistical packages for epidemiological analyses and writing scientific papers for publication.
• Maintain continuous professional development in line with relevant professional, statutory, and service requirements.
• Complete mandatory training, including fire safety and information governance.

Salary

• Salary is £37,749–£45,353 per annum, pro rata.
• The role includes a Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Location

• Location is Colindale, London (Scientific Campus).

Contract and working pattern

• The contract is permanent.
• The working pattern may be flexible, full-time, job share, or part-time.