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Veterinary Lead for Toxicology and Chemical Feed and Food Safety in the SIU
| Posting date: | 11 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £52,120.00 to £58,540.00 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Location: | Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 360086 |
Summary
You will be responsible for building capability, expertise, and networks in key areas of our science. You must possess expertise in this subject area; and ensure continuing development of this expertise in yourself and others, so that APHA can maintain capability and resilience, and adapt to our customers’ requirements.
As the Veterinary Lead for Toxicology and Chemical Feed and Food Safety you will:
Lead on providing consultancy and advice on toxicology and other chemical issues for Defra, and on the investigation of On-Farm Chemical Food Safety Incidents for the Food Standards Agency. This includes consideration of differential diagnosis for other diseases that might cause similar clinical presentations.
Interact and work cooperatively with Veterinary Investigation Officers, Field teams, policy advice teams, Species Expert Groups (SEGs) in the Surveillance Intelligence Unit (SIU), and other work groups across APHA, to ensure approaches to toxicology and chemical exposures are coordinated across APHA and with key partners.
Work with resource managers to ensure capability is developed and maintained for toxicology and Chemical Feed and Food Safety response in APHA.
Ensure that APHA is working collaboratively with other Agencies and Government Departments appropriate to the chemical source or investigation.
Ensure that APHA is aware of analytical capabilities in the UK and elsewhere.
Provide timely advice for emergency response and incident management. This will include establishing an out of hours rota of suitably informed vets in APHA to offer advice in the case of an emergency situation.
Be familiar with risk analysis and its individual components of risk assessment, risk management and risk communication, in relation to solving a toxicological problem.
Use expertise to understand potential and real exposures to chemicals.
Lead on communicating and engaging with stakeholders (both within Government and external and where necessary throughout the UK, Europe and worldwide) to ensure their awareness of chemical-related threats and best practice for detection and control or to respond to their queries in relation to animal health and welfare.
Be able to advise accordingly on best practice for detection of a threat in animals and contribute to risk management.
Join up activities in the area of chemicals across APHA championing best practice and the professional development for colleagues working in this area.
Undertake regular horizon scanning for potential threats to the UK.
Evaluation and investigation of potential new and re-emerging toxicology-related threats and make decisions on further actions including characterisation, mitigation, communication and escalation to Government Risk Assessment groups (including the Veterinary Risk Group, acting as risk manager for toxicology).
As the Veterinary Lead for Toxicology and Chemical Feed and Food Safety you will:
Lead on providing consultancy and advice on toxicology and other chemical issues for Defra, and on the investigation of On-Farm Chemical Food Safety Incidents for the Food Standards Agency. This includes consideration of differential diagnosis for other diseases that might cause similar clinical presentations.
Interact and work cooperatively with Veterinary Investigation Officers, Field teams, policy advice teams, Species Expert Groups (SEGs) in the Surveillance Intelligence Unit (SIU), and other work groups across APHA, to ensure approaches to toxicology and chemical exposures are coordinated across APHA and with key partners.
Work with resource managers to ensure capability is developed and maintained for toxicology and Chemical Feed and Food Safety response in APHA.
Ensure that APHA is working collaboratively with other Agencies and Government Departments appropriate to the chemical source or investigation.
Ensure that APHA is aware of analytical capabilities in the UK and elsewhere.
Provide timely advice for emergency response and incident management. This will include establishing an out of hours rota of suitably informed vets in APHA to offer advice in the case of an emergency situation.
Be familiar with risk analysis and its individual components of risk assessment, risk management and risk communication, in relation to solving a toxicological problem.
Use expertise to understand potential and real exposures to chemicals.
Lead on communicating and engaging with stakeholders (both within Government and external and where necessary throughout the UK, Europe and worldwide) to ensure their awareness of chemical-related threats and best practice for detection and control or to respond to their queries in relation to animal health and welfare.
Be able to advise accordingly on best practice for detection of a threat in animals and contribute to risk management.
Join up activities in the area of chemicals across APHA championing best practice and the professional development for colleagues working in this area.
Undertake regular horizon scanning for potential threats to the UK.
Evaluation and investigation of potential new and re-emerging toxicology-related threats and make decisions on further actions including characterisation, mitigation, communication and escalation to Government Risk Assessment groups (including the Veterinary Risk Group, acting as risk manager for toxicology).