Non-specialist Committee Chair

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Act in accordance with the principles of the NICE Code of Conduct

• Participate in NICE committee Chairs training

• Participate in the recruitment of committee members including shortlisting and interviewing applicants (virtual)

• Work with the Topic Adviser and developer staff to develop the scope of the guidance

• Help plan, chair and maintain the focus and smooth running of committee meeting

• Agree draft agendas with NICE staff and ensure that committee meetings achieve their aims by keeping to the agenda

• Ask for Declarations of Interest from committee members at each meeting, identify any conflicts and handle these as they arise in line with NICEs policy

• Facilitate committee meetings to achieve consensus in relation to the evidence base, provide appropriate practice interpretations where possible and formulation of concise action-orientated recommendations.

• Facilitate topic groups of committee members on specific questions as required.

• Facilitate discussion at committee meetings about topic development and writing of recommendations, ensuring all members are involved in discussion and encouraged to express their views

• Keep group discussion unified and avoid disruption by sub-conversations or dominance by any group members

• Encourage constructive debate, without forcing agreement and prevent repetitive debate

• Summarise the main points and key decisions from discussions at committee meetings

• Assist in resolving concerns or disagreements between committee members

• Work with the Topic Adviser and Topic Lead to ensure appropriate governance of committee meetings and topic materials, such as accurate sets of meeting minutes, recording and assessing the impact of declarations of interest, ensuring confidentiality, etc.

• Sign-off all meeting minutes once approved by the committee

• Work with the Topic Adviser, the Topic Lead and other members of NICEs topic team between meetings to ensure timely delivery of high-quality systematic reviews and health economic content

• Take responsibility with the Topic Adviser and Topic Lead for quality assuring drafts of the guidance and contributing to the writing of the final guidance documents.

• Represent the committee at other meetings (such as those organised by NICE and relevant medical Royal colleges), if required

• Be a champion for the guidance after publication and undertake activities to promote its implementation, such as talking at press and professional conferences and publishing topic-related articles in accordance with the NICE publications policy.

Person Specification

Ability to contribute to the work of the committee

Essential

• Experience in health or social care (as appropriate), either as a practicing health or social care professional, or working in or in association with the wider aspects of health or social care or the healthcare industries, or through engagement in or with health or social care as a patient, member of the public, user, carer or as an advocate
• An understanding of the social, political, economic and professional influences on NICE
• Experience of chairing multidisciplinary committees with significant impact on health or care policy delivery or an equivalent field

Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets

Essential

• Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Essential

• 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

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Essential

• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Experience of developing effective relationships
• Experience of communicating with a range of audiences at all levels

Ability to exercise judgement across a wide range of issues

Essential

• Implementation of organisational policies in relation to conflicts of interest
• Discretion in handling politically sensitive and confidential 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Address

Virtual

Virtual

M1 4BT

Employer's website

https://www.nice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)