About the job

Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join the team at an exciting time and take a central role in the further development and management of this high-profile national training programme in applied epidemiology.

Applicants should have advanced knowledge and experience of communicable and/or non-communicable disease epidemiology, outbreak investigations, surveillance, and applied research, as well as understanding of the public health function in the UK. Applicants should be prepared to regularly travel across the UK and occasionally in European and overseas countries for meetings or delivering training.

Job description

The successful candidate will have a strong interest in teaching, training and professional development, experience in educational supervision and will be responsible for developing teaching material and organising and delivering field epidemiology training nationally and internationally. They will be responsible for advising UKFETP fellows on all epidemiological aspects of outbreak investigations, surveillance activities, applied research, and scientific communication. They will supervise all aspects of the fellows’ work outputs and monitor their progress. They will be responsible for quality assurance including continuous development of UKFETP governance systems, monitoring UKFETP training sites, and conducting training site visits. The post holder will have the opportunity to contribute to strategic developments with UK and international partners, subject to funding.

Responsibilities

The UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme (UKFETP) is a competency-based 2-year specialist postgraduate training programme aimed at medical, scientific, veterinary and nursing staff who are, or will be, working in a post involving field investigation and epidemiology and who want to further enhance their specialist skills. Training is provided on the job; at least ten percent of time is dedicated to formal training courses. Fellows are based at training locations in England, Northern Ireland and Wales and are supervised day to day by Primary Field Supervisors at these sites. Scientific support, tuition and mentoring is provided by the UKFETP scientific coordinators.

Benefits

• An environment with flexible working options

• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

The scientific coordinator will manage and deliver specific scientific aspects of the taught programme and provide mentorship and scientific support to the UKFETP fellows.

This will include review, evaluation and revision of the taught components of the programme as well as development of training materials and delivery of UKFETP training.

The scientific coordinator will be expected to provide specialist epidemiological and pedagogical expertise to the UKFETP programme and fellows and will have the opportunity to contribute to strategic developments with UK and international partners.

A detailed job description/main responsibilities is attached in a separate document.

Applicants are strongly advised to use the criteria in the job description/person specification (available online) as sub-headings in their application to make it clear how they meet each of the selection criteria.

Please also see job description for competencies.

Option 3 – External

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals