# Data & Information Officer

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 32,624 - 37,737 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This post is within the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI) Division of the UK Health Security Agency. The mission of the division is to protect people from healthcare-associated and antimicrobial resistant infections, through world-leading public health microbiology, outbreak response, surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship, modelling, research and interventions.

The postholder will work as part of the AMR & HCAI Service based in Colindale, London. They will carry out data collation and validation and database management duties associated with the AMR &HCAI Service. The post-holder will be required to ensure the timely collection of data from external data providers; be involved in data cleaning and manipulation; support the timely production of reports and internal and external requests for information; carry out general information and data analysis tasks and administrative tasks such as meeting planning and minute taking.

**Data collection and management**

- Manage, maintain and develop databases

- Monitor data submissions to ensure data archive is complete

- Process data submissions and ensure all data errors are processed in a timely manner

- Maintain and improve data quality through validation and reconciliation

- Collate and summarise data using standard software packages

**Data analysis and report production**

- Assist with the analysis of scientific data using standard information, statistical software packages and Standard Operating Procedures

- Assist with the production of regular epidemiological outputs for UKHSA

- Create, follow and regularly review Standard Operating Procedures

- Respond to information requests and provide ad hoc data reports as and when required

- Be aware of, and put into practice, all policies and procedures to maintain confidentiality of patient information

- Ensure data confidentiality and security in compliance with UKHSA policies, the Data Protection Act, and other statutory requirements and principles in the handling, secure storage and dissemination of data

- Collaborate with other parts of UKHSA to support system wide audits across a range of public health programmes through data extraction and basic analysis

**Person specification**

**Essential Criteria**

- Experience in data management handling, analysis and reporting

- Using computers and good working knowledge of Microsoft Access, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

- Understand information governance issues including an awareness of data protection and confidentiality requirements

- Communicate proactively, accurately and succinctly with the ability to negotiate in a friendly and tactful manner with a wide range of health, IT and academic professionals

- Able to manage workloads, deal with problems effectively and timely

- Work well on own initiative as well as in teams

- Demonstrate understanding of basic epidemiological terms and methods

**Desirable Criteria**

- Knowledge/Understanding of public health with the NHS, UKHSA or in a Local Authority

- Knowledge/Understanding of communicable disease surveillance

**Benefits** Alongside your salary of £32,624, UK Health Security Agency contributes £9,451 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Other benefits include:

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- An environment with flexible working options

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

## Skills

### Required
- data management
- Microsoft Access
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- data analysis
- reporting
- information governance
- data protection
- confidentiality

### Nice to have
- public health
- NHS
- UKHSA
- Local Authority
- communicable disease surveillance

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