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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.