Policy Advisor - Health Protection, Adult Social Care
| Posting date: | 02 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £32,188 to £32,188 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Leeds: £32,188 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 367675/1 |
Summary
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) plays a vital role in leading the
nation’s health and social care, to help people live more independent, healthier lives for longer.
We are recruiting an HEO to join the Visiting and Health Protection Policy team. The
team is responsible for visiting policy, pandemic preparedness, and infection, prevention and control (IPC) guidance in adult social care (ASC). The team works to ensure that policies continue to protect those at highest risk of severe illness to infectious diseases while maximising their wellbeing.
The role offers an excellent opportunity to gain policy experience whilst working in an
interesting, varied and high-profile area that contributes to improving people’s lives.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across the team’s policy areas, on priorities such as ensuring that the ASC sector’s needs are reflected across DHSC’s pandemic preparedness work, that the sector is prepared to implement visiting as a fundamental standard of care, and that IPC guidance for the sector is clear. The role will include engaging with internal and external stakeholders and supporting key work across the team.
Diversity and inclusion are two of our biggest priorities and we aim to establish a
workforce which reflects the society we serve, welcoming applications from all. We are especially interested to hear from gender diverse, disabled, LGBT+ candidates, and candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, including Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic groups. We view flexible working and inclusive leadership as essential for all our employees.
The Visiting and Health Protection Policy team plays an important role in developing policy that protects people who access adult social care and the staff and carers who support them, both now and in the future.
Our team works across the Department, UK Health Security Agency and NHS England to:
- Develop Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC) guidance and policies that protect people at highest risk to infectious diseases while ensuring their wellbeing.
- Develop future pandemic preparedness plans for adult social care.
We are looking for an HEO to pick up and support work on ongoing work to ensure IPC capability is robust in the adult social care sector. This includes supporting work to develop, refine, and update the ongoing IPC guidance landscape in line with the latest evidence; monitoring and responding to emerging IPC issues; engaging with stakeholders to ensure the sector is informed on the latest guidance and advice and; identifying further opportunities to embed good IPC across the sector.
It is expected that the successful applicant will be flexible in taking a lead on other work strands within the team, as ministerial and departmental priorities shift. This includes involvement with the team’s ongoing work on future pandemic preparedness plans, as well as being a part of the team ‘briefing hub’, leading responses to briefing requests, PQs and correspondence for our policy areas.