Health Protection Practitioner

Our client in the South West is looking to appoint a Health Protection Practitioner to join Public Health team there.

The core of the role's purpose is to be responsible for preventative, outbreak and incident management as part of the council's COVID-19 response team, working with colleagues and key partner agencies, to ensure outbreaks, clusters and incidents are responded to effectively and in line with the Local Outbreak Management Plan, supporting contact tracing, infection prevention and control activity. The post holder will also work with priority groups and high-risk settings, demonstrating skills in health protection gained by professional qualification and experience, to implement agreed measures effectively.

It is essential that you have up-to-date knowledge of effective health improvement and health protection strategies including pandemic responses. You must have knowledge and experience of needs assessments and service reviews and the monitoring and evaluation of health improvement and health protection outcomes.

With this role it is also very important that you have experience in programme management, including establishing such processes from scratch, prioritisation and planning complex projects and activities, working to plans and adapting such plans as necessary, performance management and risk management.

This assignment is for an inital 3 month period with the chance of extension. Although based in the South West the role offers remote working and the rate of pay is £330 - £350 per day.