• The Communicable Diseases Prevention Unit (CDPU) sits within Public Health Protection which sit more broadly in Health Service Operations – Population Health.
• The Epidemiology and Surveillance team is integral in the multidisciplinary Communicable Diseases Prevention Unit.
• CDPU delivers an integrated public health function spanning:
• Surveillance and intelligence: Monitoring notifiable disease data, identifying emerging risks, and providing epidemiological analysis to inform decision-making.
• Public health response: Coordinating case and outbreak management and providing infection prevention and control advice.
• Immunisation programs: Stewardship of Tasmania’s implementation of the National Immunisation Program (NIP) and state-funded programs, including vaccine supply, provider oversight, and safety surveillance.
• Policy and strategy: Developing evidence-based policy, guidelines, and advice to support the prevention and control of communicable diseases.
• System governance and assurance: Maintaining data governance, reporting,
and compliance with statutory and national requirements.
The Role
The Manager - Epidemiology and Surveillance is responsible for leading a complex program, including providing leadership, strategic planning and operational oversight of communicable disease epidemiology and surveillance and for other notifiable conditions of importance to Public Health and the Department of Health.
You will need
• Relevant postgraduate qualifications in communicable disease epidemiology and surveillance, together with extensive professional expertise and experience in communicable disease epidemiology and surveillance.
• Demonstrable high-level ability to provide professional leadership to, and empower, a multi-professional team to undertake high level communicable disease epidemiology and surveillance activities that influence and inform Departmental decision-making and response and add to continuous service improvement.
• High
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