Job summary
Secondment or fixed term opportunity until November 2025
Based in our Manchester or London office, with hybrid working from home. The team currently meet in the office once a month.
The Senior Adviser takes a senior role in the delivery of NICE Advice services (e.g. education, insights and advice). This might involve liaising with life sciences companies to understand their needs and scope out bespoke services, triage of complex service requests, presenting technical material at meetings with customers, critically reviewing materials submitted by the customers and preparing reports. The role involves liaising with external experts and briefing the Associate Directors and Director on the details of projects. The role also involves the training of Advisers and Analysts and the supervision of their work on projects. The post holder provides input in their specialist area of work (for example market access, clinical trial design, methods for health technology assessment, health economics or AI/digital) and delivers projects with high standards of customer service and commercial awareness.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Project delivery of NICE Advice services
- Leading discussions with clients or external experts on projects
- Overseeing all aspects of project delivery, including delegating project tasks to colleagues where appropriate
- Reviewing and finalising project deliverables, ensuring the deliverable is of high technical quality, valid and reliable
- Responsible for deliverable and timeline, identifying scope for expansion and the need for fee amendments
- Demonstrating adaptability in terms of accommodating customer requirements and delivering client focussed solutions.
About us
NICE Advice provides a fee-based service for developers of health technologies and international organisations. NICE Advice provides a single point of contact within NICE for the life sciences industry to facilitate a clear and simple customer journey from clinical development to market access. We provide advice, insights and education with the ultimate aim of supporting technologies through NICE guidance to reach patients.
For further insight into what we do and the teams objectives, please refer to the job description.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the UK.
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance including work from home, compressed hours and flexi start/finish times.
- Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants and more.
- Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays
- Access to modern offices with showers, bike storage facilities and refreshments such as tea and coffee.
- Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Eco-NICE, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- Doctorate or Masters with experience in a subject related to evidence-based decision-making in healthcare (such as health economics, clinical research, systematic review, statistics, biostatistics or epidemiology), or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in working with a range of individuals and organisations ideally in a healthcare setting
Experience
Essential
- Experience of writing up detailed and precise technical information to be communicated to both experts and non-experts in the field.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in a customer-focused environment and accommodating customer requirements to deliver client focused solutions.
Knowledge
Essential
- Working knowledge of the following areas and specialist expertise in at least one of the following: clinical trials, health economics, medical statistics, cost-effectiveness modelling, systematic reviewing, evidence synthesis.
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of guideline development, health technology assessment and/or public health research and assessment methodology.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with a range of professionals both within and outside of NICE.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate or Masters with experience in a subject related to evidence-based decision-making in healthcare (such as health economics, clinical research, systematic review, statistics, biostatistics or epidemiology), or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in working with a range of individuals and organisations ideally in a healthcare setting
Experience
Essential
- Experience of writing up detailed and precise technical information to be communicated to both experts and non-experts in the field.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in a customer-focused environment and accommodating customer requirements to deliver client focused solutions.
Knowledge
Essential
- Working knowledge of the following areas and specialist expertise in at least one of the following: clinical trials, health economics, medical statistics, cost-effectiveness modelling, systematic reviewing, evidence synthesis.
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of guideline development, health technology assessment and/or public health research and assessment methodology.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with a range of professionals both within and outside of NICE.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
