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Animal Health Officer - Wales
| Posting date: | 29 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £27,470 to £28,606 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 August 2024 |
| Location: | Carmarthen |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 363543 |
Summary
Working as part of the Technical Team, you will be instrumental in helping to safeguard animal health and welfare. Through engaging with inspections, surveillance and collecting samples, you will be contributing to the control and eradication of disease to protect both the economy and food security.
As an Animal Health Officer (AHO) your duties will include, but not limited to the following:
Blood sampling of livestock species including cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry (after training)
Conduct animal welfare inspections
Conduct documentation inspections on animal identification, animal movement, breeding, medicine and other written or electronic records for audit and disease control and surveillance purposes
Collect samples for National Surveillance Schemes including feed samples from farms and feed mills
Undertake assurance checks for the National control plan for Salmonella and compliance visits for Poultry Meat Marketing Regulations
Collect samples and information for disease surveys
Manage compliance inspections for premises handling animal by-products e.g. composting sites, hunt kennels and abattoir
Play an active part in contingency planning so the agency is able to respond to outbreaks of exotic notifiable disease and other emergencies
Undertake allocated rostered out of hours on-call duties to deal with incidents and to support disease outbreak reports
During outbreaks of notifiable disease, participate as directed to contribute to the control and the eradication of the disease including taking part in rosters for Detached Duty to other parts of Great Britain
Working with a diverse team, both locally and across Great Britain, including other Technical colleagues, Veterinary Surgeons and Scientists
The role includes undertaking risk-based visits to premises for egg marketing inspections and enforcement of the Eggs and Chicks regulation. The training for this area of work will involve travel and multiple overnight stays away from home. Other duties within the egg marketing work area include –
Ultra violet light egg shell analysis
Hygiene assurance inspections
Administration of penalty notices for NCP of Salmonella
Ensuring welfare criteria are adhered to in various egg production units
As an Animal Health Officer (AHO) your duties will include, but not limited to the following:
Blood sampling of livestock species including cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry (after training)
Conduct animal welfare inspections
Conduct documentation inspections on animal identification, animal movement, breeding, medicine and other written or electronic records for audit and disease control and surveillance purposes
Collect samples for National Surveillance Schemes including feed samples from farms and feed mills
Undertake assurance checks for the National control plan for Salmonella and compliance visits for Poultry Meat Marketing Regulations
Collect samples and information for disease surveys
Manage compliance inspections for premises handling animal by-products e.g. composting sites, hunt kennels and abattoir
Play an active part in contingency planning so the agency is able to respond to outbreaks of exotic notifiable disease and other emergencies
Undertake allocated rostered out of hours on-call duties to deal with incidents and to support disease outbreak reports
During outbreaks of notifiable disease, participate as directed to contribute to the control and the eradication of the disease including taking part in rosters for Detached Duty to other parts of Great Britain
Working with a diverse team, both locally and across Great Britain, including other Technical colleagues, Veterinary Surgeons and Scientists
The role includes undertaking risk-based visits to premises for egg marketing inspections and enforcement of the Eggs and Chicks regulation. The training for this area of work will involve travel and multiple overnight stays away from home. Other duties within the egg marketing work area include –
Ultra violet light egg shell analysis
Hygiene assurance inspections
Administration of penalty notices for NCP of Salmonella
Ensuring welfare criteria are adhered to in various egg production units