Epidemiological Analyst

Role overview

Surveillance and data analysis

• 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.
• Run database queries and prepare regular, ad hoc, and annual surveillance outputs and reports.
• Prepare annual datasets for international organisations, including WHO and ECDC.

Stakeholders, publications, and digital content

• Liaise with stakeholders, clinicians, laboratories, and Health Protection Teams about surveillance data, cases, and outbreaks.
• Maintain UKHSA disease webpages and dashboards, validating content and meeting relevant guidelines.
• Support information requests, including Parliamentary Questions; maintain Reference Manager databases and contribute to scientific papers and reports.
• Present findings at internal and national meetings and conferences; support other infectious-disease surveillance databases and websites.

Candidate requirements

• Understand vaccines, how they work, and their use in the national immunisation programme.
• Be proficient with database tools including R, MS Access, and SQL; have experience with statistical packages for epidemiological analysis and scientific-paper writing.
• Be able to present research work at local and national meetings and conferences.

Professional development

• Maintain continuous professional development and meet relevant professional, statutory, and service requirements.
• Agree training and development needs with the line manager, share data-science practices, and complete mandatory training, including fire safety and information governance.

Location and work pattern

• Location stated as Colindale, London (Scientific Campus).
• Flexible working; full-time and part-time patterns and job share are listed.

Contract and salary

• Permanent contract; salary £37,749–£45,353 per annum, pro rata.
• Civil service pension with stated employer contribution of 28.97%.