Vaccine Supply Operations Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal and external. This will include;

Internal

• Head of Vaccine Operations and wider VCR team
• Supply Operations Managers
• Reporting Lead
• ImmForm Team
• CVU team

External

• Contracted service providers, including national storage and distribution agents
• MHRA and NIBSC
• Supply Chain Coordination Ltd
• Devolved Administrations
• NHS England
• Overseas Territories
• Crown Dependencies

Essential Criteria:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or significant experience of working at a similar level in a commercial or supply chain context
• Experience in roles which have a high degree of senior project management or financial management, including operations
• Experience of supply chain and stock control systems
• Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Experience of managing risks and reporting.
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options, including stock management data
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands, and deliver on time
• Ability to build constructive working and influential relationships internally and externally
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly in complex environments to manage competing priorities effectively.

Desirable Criteria:

• Postgraduate degree or equivalent qualification
• Be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to senior managers, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Experience, Strengths and Technical skills.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Statement of Suitability (in no more than 750 words). This should outline how you consider your skills, experience and achievements, provide evidence of your suitability for the role,with particular reference to the essential criteria outlined.You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history(this will be used in sifting process and will be scored).

STAGE 1 - APPLICATION & SIFT:You will be required to submit a CV and a statement of suitability(Max 750 Words)based on the essential criteria advertised.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TRAC SYSTEM WILL ALLOW YOU TO SUBMIT UP TO 1500 WORDS FOR THE STATEMENT OF SUITABILITY, HOWEVER THE VACANCY HOLDER WILL ONLY ASSESS AGAINST THE FIRST 750 WORDS.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview.

Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.

STAGE 2 - INTERVIEW:

All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will undertake a single video interview.

All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed through an interview against a mixture of Behaviour, experience, strength and technical based questions.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Changing & Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Eligibility Criteria

Option 3 - External

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

New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band.

The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase.

Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.

For further details please refer to the Information Sheet- Starting Salaries & Benefits attachment.

Security Clearance Level Requirement:

People working with government assets must completeBasic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role isBPSS.See our vetting charter.

Location policy:

UKHSA offers hybrid working for its employees This role will be based at one of our UKHSA offices/locations (Leeds, Manchester, Totnes, London, Horsham, Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham, Harlow, Liverpool, Fareham, Gloucester, Newcastle and Birmingham) with opportunities for an element of working from home. You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process. The balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager, determined primarily by business need and in line with departmental policy.

Some OCCASIONAL business travel will be required as part of this role. Business travel between base location and any other work locations will be covered under the UKHSA Travel and Expenses policy.

Currently this requires working from an allocated UKHSA base location for 20% of your contracted time as a minimum, increasing to 40% from the beginning of 2023.

As part of this role you will be required to work some weekends and public holidays by exception.

The core working hours for this role are 09:00am to 5:00pm.

£49,592 - £58,769 (National)

£51,494 - £60,528 (Outer London)

£53,396 - £62,286(Inner London)

Person Specification

CV

Essential

• CV

Statement of Suitability

Essential

• Statement of Suitability

Behaviours

Essential

• Changing & Improving
• Making effective decisions
• Working Together
• Managing a quality service
• Delivering at Pace

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Hybrid working as per advert details

National

SW1P 3JR

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)