The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government. Our diverse teams of over 3,000 skilled and committed professionals come together to provide research, advice and support to UK Government for safeguarding animal, public and plant health for benefit of the environment and economy.
More than ever before the health of our environment, plants, animals, and bees matters. Do you wish to be part of an amazing, diverse team working to protect the UK’s animal, plant and bee health? You will be helping to make a difference to the UK and contributing to global efforts to control and eradicate disease in plants, animals and protecting global biodiversity.
The Science Directorate (SD) delivers high quality, high impact, and highly relevant multidisciplinary science. Our People are diverse, talented, engaged and inspired to deliver innovative outcomes.
In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of epidemiological studies into endemic and exotic threats to UK livestock and public health, to understand and tackle the drivers for disease occurrence and to optimise surveillance and control schemes. Threats of particular focus in our workgroup are bovine tuberculosis, foodborne zoonoses (e.g., salmonella and pathogenic E. coli), antimicrobial resistance, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and avian influenza. Your focus will be on one of these area, though you will also be a consultant, providing advice to other epidemiology activity within the team and across APHA.
* Leading epidemiological surveillance and research studies within the Department of Epidemiological Sciences (DES) in collaboration with colleagues across APHA.
* Leading study design and conducting descriptive and multivariable analyses on large and complex datasets of populations and disease.
* Designing and evaluating surveillance systems, as well as applying epidemiological skills to analyse and interpret surveillance data to produce new, informative outputs.
* Responsibility for delivery of projects on time and within agreed budgets and meeting relevant quality standards, including project-planning, identifying customer requirements, prioritising tasks, reviewing progress, problem solving and managing and monitoring the project budget and staffing allocations.
* Integrate epidemiological outputs to provide scientific evidence to stakeholders characterizing uncertainty and bias.
* Communicating results and findings in national and international peer-reviewed scientific journals and present at national and international conferences.
* Maintaining an up to date understanding of epidemiological approaches as well as disease and populations demographics relevant to the work of the team.
* Leading the writing of bids for further funding.
* Supporting the wider APHA Science programmes.
* Supporting preparedness for exotic animal disease outbreaks which including participation in the Duty epidemiologist (out of hours, vets only, allowance given) and within-hours analytical epidemiologist rotas for the National Epidemiological Emergency Group as required.
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