Job summary
- Main area
- Technical Advisor
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 907-598
- Employer
- NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Level 1a City Tower
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Technical Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 8b
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance and advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care.
As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to creating a inclusive environment and welcome everyone from all backgrounds to apply so we can continue to create a workforce which is representative of the communities we serve.
If you are suitably qualified and have an interest in remote, hybrid, full time or part time working we encourage you to get in touch as we are happy to discuss potential flexible working opportunities.
We have modern offices in Manchester city centre and Stratford, London. Please take into consideration that you may be required to commute to one of our offices for business purposes if necessary.
Job overview
The post holder will provide technical leadership and advice to the team. You will lead on and develop Surveillance methods , this will include engaging with key stakeholders to ensure methods are up to date and leading small multidisciplinary teams. You will provide advice and resolution on highly complex issues and where appropriate support the response to feedback received from public consultation on methodological and technical aspects of our draft outputs. You will lead on the quality assurance (QA) of outputs and training and development for the technical analysts within the team.
Main duties of the job
The Surveillance Team is responsible for the ongoing surveillance programme for published guidelines. This includes reviewing new evidence on a regular basis, for producing published Surveillance reports, and for recommending whether guidance should be updated. The team also supports the Clinical Directorate in topic prioritisation
- Provide critical comments on work carried out by other staff in NICE or external organisations, as required
- Undertake highly complex QA across guidance products.
- Provide advice/guidance which contributes to the care of patients/clients/service users.
- Advise and support technical teams develope guidance to define the parameters of the required work and how to manage the methodological and technical aspects of their work.
- Liaise and influence guidance teams to prioritise/reprioritise their own workload and balancing the workload of the technical team at different stages of surveillance and topic prioritisation, and maintaining cross-team management systems.
- Contribute to strategy and policy planning for the Surveillance team’s work programme, and leading on the delivery of at least one theme of work
- Contribute to the production of highly complex and technical scientific guideline products for specialist area of work, including analysis and synthesis of research evidence
- Contribute to NICE’s Research and Development programme and participating in international research collaborations.
Working for our organisation
The purpose of the clinical directorate is to strengthen clinical, public health and social care leadership throughout NICE and ensure end-to-end clinical oversight of, and support to, all areas of NICE activity. It also enhances the external credibility of NICE and promotes more effective stakeholder engagement. A key aspect of the directorate’s work is around topic prioritisation, running NICE prioritisation board, and creating a cross-organisational prioritisation process that is driven by systematic intelligence gathering.
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent level of knowledge in subjects with relevance to evidence-based decision-making (e.g. economics, public health, health psychology, mathematics, operational research, data science) or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in and contributing to at least one area of guidance or policy development: o Surveillance o Health research and assessment o Systematic review methodology o Quality improvement methods o Implementation o Health technology assessment
- Experience in using technical evaluation in policy formulation and decision making
- Experience of working in, or familiarity with, the National Health Service, local government or social care
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of policy, research and evidence-related issues in health and social care
Skills
Essential criteria
- Expert in critical appraisal and the interpretation and synthesis of health care research evidence
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to motivate and develop the competences of technical staff
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Toni Tan
- Job title
- Senior Technical Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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