Job summary
- Main area
- Chair
- Grade
- Chair
- Contract
- Voluntary: 3 year tenure to September 2028
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 907-CM-6868859
- Employer
- NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Virtual
- Town
- Virtual
- Salary
- £1 - £300 Please see the non-staff reimbursement policy.
- Salary period
- Session by session
- Closing
- 07/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chair (HealthTech Committees)
Chair
Job overview
Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on healthcare innovation? The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is seeking two dynamic and visionary leaders for the position of Chair of two of our HealthTech Committees (Diagnostics and Interventional Procedures). These pivotal roles offer a unique opportunity to influence the future of health technology evaluation, ensuring cutting-edge innovations deliver value and improve lives across the UK.
We are looking for a skilled and experienced leader with a track record of chairing national or high profile multi-professional committees or working groups. As Chair, you will lead highly skilled multidisciplinary committees, driving the development of guidance on innovative procedures or diagnostic technologies. Your role will involve facilitating collaborative discussions, ensuring evidence-based decision-making, and championing equality and diversity throughout the guidance development process. With a strong clinical background in healthcare, and excellent communication and leadership skills, you’ll shape the adoption of technologies that transform patient outcomes while representing the values of transparency and excellence that underpin NICE’s work.
Main duties of the job
We are advertising two roles:
· Chair of the HealthTech Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee
· Chair of the HealthTech Diagnostics Advisory Committee
The chair ensures that the committee takes full account of the evidence in developing recommendations and considers the analysis and interpretation of the evidence prepared by the evidence review team.
While all committee members must ensure appropriate consideration of the implications of guidance for equality, this is a particular responsibility for the chair.
The chair should also offer committee members feedback and comment on their contribution to the committee, on an annual basis, for revalidation purposes or personal development.
The chairs of advisory committees are in a special position in relation to the work of their committee and have greater scope to influence the outcome of discussions. The chair helps the committee to work collaboratively, ensures a balanced contribution from all committee members and takes decisions about the potential conflicts of interest of their committee members.
Before you consider applying for the role of chair, please ensure you read the conflicts of interest section of this document and refer to NICE’s policy on declaring and managing interests for NICE advisory committees.
Anyone whose interests prevent them from chairing a committee may instead like to consider applying for a committee member role.
Working for our organisation
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom. It provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care. Working for NICE offers the opportunity to contribute to the development of evidence-based guidelines and quality standards that shape healthcare practices and policies. Employees at NICE are part of a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment, engaging with experts across various fields to enhance health outcomes and ensure the delivery of high-quality care.
You will be working with the HealthTech team within the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Chairs will be supported by the technical and project management staff of the HealthTech team within the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation at NICE.
The Chairs' main responsibilities:
- Chair the meetings of the advisory committees and lead the committee in the application of NICE methods in the development of guidance documents
- Attend, and occasionally chair, committee training days
- Review and edit the documentation for scoping, consultation, and the final guidance, in collaboration with the NICE team
- Ensure compliance at all meetings with the NICE conflicts of interests policy, code of conduct and the methodology and process
- Prepare for meetings in collaboration with technical and project staff, including development of presentations to the committee
- Advise on and input to the development of topic selection, methods and processes used by the programmes within the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation
- Support committee member recruitment and induction as necessary
- Attend NICE Board Strategy meetings as appropriate
Person specification
Ability to contribute to the work of the committee
Essential criteria
- Experience or interest in women’s health, maternity and obstetric care or gynaecology Maximum 400 words.
Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets
Essential criteria
- Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications. Maximum 400 words.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Essential criteria
- Commitment to eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality and an understanding or awareness of the issues of inequality in health, public health and social care settings. Maximum 400 words.
Ability to exercise judgement across a wide range of issues
Essential criteria
- Looking at the role description and person specification, please tell us how you meet the criteria listed under ‘ability to exercise judgement across a wide range of issues’. Maximum 400 words
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Are you happy to commit to work within the NICE equality scheme?
- Do you commit to keeping committee discussions confidential as needed?
- Do you have the time to commit to this committee’s work? (This includes attending meetings, reading papers, commenting on draft documents, and other work as required)
- Have you worked, or do you work as a healthcare, social care or public health professional? If yes, please give details including profession, specialty and dates:
- Have you received a prison sentence or suspended sentence of 3 months or more in the last 5 years (this will usually lead to disqualification unless NICE is actively seeking lay member candidates with this experience, for example, prison health topics)?
- Are you the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or interim order?
- Have you been dismissed (except by redundancy) by any NHS or social care body?
- Are you under a disqualification order under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986?
- Have you been removed from trusteeship of a charity?
- Are you employed by the Department for Health and Social Care?
- Are you employed by NHS England’s national commissioning functions?
- Are you appointed by NHS England as a National Clinical Director, National Specialty Lead, or Clinical Reference Group chair?
Excellent oral and written communication
Essential criteria
- Looking at the role description and person specification, please tell us how you meet the criteria listed under ‘excellent oral and written communication skills’. Maximum 400 words.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ella van Bergen
- Job title
- HealthTech Coordinator (Operations)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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