Senior Inferential Statistical Modeller

Job Reference Number:       J84-KB-7452620

Employer:                              Public Health England

Locations:                              Porton Down

Salary:                                    £33,675 per annum

Hours:                                    37.5

Job Type                                Permanent

Closing Date:                        24 May 2013 

Public Health England will provide strategic leadership and vision for protecting and improving the nation’s health. Its ambition is to lead nationally and enable locally a transformation in the health expectations of all people in England regardless of where they live and the circumstance of their birth. It will achieve this through the application of research, knowledge and skills. Public Health England will be an executive agency of the Department of Health, and will start on 1 April 2013. It will be a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy to advise and support Government, local authorities and the NHS in a professionally independent manner. 

Stage 4 vacancy

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

Job Purpose / Summary

The role exists within the Microbial Risk Assessment and Behavioural Science Unit, a multidisciplinary team that includes infectious disease biologists and epidemiologists, mathematical modellers, behavioural scientists, and specialists in geographic information systems and scientific computing. In partnership with others both within the PHE and from outside, we collate data and information from across the world on new and emerging infectious disease threats including potential bioterrorist threats. This information is integrated with a wide range of other UK specific data in order to develop risk assessments and mathematical models and other IT/computer-based applications to assist with emergency planning, training and response functions.

With a PhD, in Mathematics or Statistics or substantially equivalent experience, you will have the necessary advanced statistical skills and experience to develop predictive, inferential and/or spatial models to help in the assessment and mitigation of the risks posed by infectious disease threats, including those posed by emerging exotic infections and bioterrorism.

Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team and with external collaborators within and outside PHE, you will be a team player with excellent mathematical background, good report writing and programming experience and awareness of modelling infectious disease processes.

Please note that this post is subject to obtaining a UK Government National Security Vetting Clearance at SC Level. This requires applicants to have been continuously resident in the UK for the last 5 years. 

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

For further information / an informal discussion about the post, please contact Ian Hall (ian.hall@phe.gov.uk, 01980 619890).

Public Health England promotes diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunities employer