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Job overview

The Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) provides clinical and professional advice and leadership in healthcare science across the health and care system, is head of profession for a workforce of over 56,000 working in healthcare science in the NHS, embracing more than 54 separate scientific specialisms.

 The Office of the CSO encourages better use of science to address our greatest health challenges and shape technological advances to help ensure that people are living happier and healthier lives. The NHS healthcare science workforce use science and their technical skills to help prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. They are in a unique position as a scientific workforce, working as part of an integrated health system that is a world leader in transformational science such as genomics, to deliver this work.

 The team also work to develop the professional, clinical and system leadership capacity and capability of healthcare scientists, who are well placed to provide frontline scientific leadership and science-based intelligence for innovation, service planning and delivery. By ensuring the NHS operates at the limits of science, the Office of the CSO can improve the integration of services, develop new ways of working for delivering care, give patients greater control of their own care and improve the NHS’s ability to undertake research and innovation, and adoption of new state of the art health technology.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a Senior Science Strategy Lead who will work as part of a dynamic team of scientists, project managers and policy makers across NHS England to ensure that the Office of the Chief Scientific Officer’s supports delivery of NHS England’s objectives by providing expertise and professional leadership both to and from the scientific and diagnostic community. Working in collaboration, the post holder will adopt an integrated approach with colleagues across the system, influence and advice to improve quality and outcomes for patients and the embedding of innovation into healthcare. The role also demands an individual with a strategic vision and depth of policy insight to lead cross-government efforts in healthcare science.

We are looking for a scientist with a strong background in strategy development and a track record of translating scientific vision into measurable outcomes.  With experience of using scientific data and insights to guide strategic decision making, e.g., opportunities for improvements in scientific and /or diagnostic pathways. With experience of collaborating across the NHS and government, working closely with high-level stakeholders to ensure a collaborative, inclusive and unified approach to delivery. With experience of people management with the ability to balance reactive requests with longer term strategy.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.

As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.

As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.