Senior Analyst – Health Technologies

Job summary

Here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) we are passionate about the work we do and proud of the impact we make. We strive for excellence and have an academic culture committed to producing high quality work, which we take collective responsibility for. Not only that, we also put your individual health and wellbeing at the forefront, offering you a great place to work, good benefits, and flexible arrangements, all within a supportive, friendly and inclusive environment.

Reporting to the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Adviser, Senior Analyst - Health Technologies will play a key role in the evaluation of health technologies and are the technical lead on assigned guidance topics involving clinical and cost effectiveness assessments.

Contract type:

  • x1 permanent role
  • x1 12 months fixed-term contract role until October 2025

Main duties of the job

Working with other members of the teams, the analyst is responsible for scoping topics, liaising with industry, academic bodies and other stakeholder groups to gather and communicate information relevant to the topic. They are responsible for identifying key technical issues and presenting the relevant evidence and information to our advisory committees, as well as developing the guidance to the NHS and supporting further evidence generation, where required. Analysts may also contribute to wider programme development projects such as: methodological developments to evaluate new scenarios in innovation; new approaches to evaluation to ensure guidance production is timely, robust and relevant; new ways of presenting information to communicate with stakeholder and to ensure the guidance output is both useful and useable to the NHS.

Senior analysts are expected to work with a degree of autonomy and provide mentorship to less experienced analysts. They may also deputise for the technical adviser, when appropriate.

About us

The Centre for Health Technology Evaluation develops guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, medical technologies, treatments and procedures within the NHS.

Under the leadership of the Director for Medical Technology, the Health Technologies programme assesses non-medicine products: medical devices, digital health, diagnostic technologies, and new procedures, and develops guidance and advice on the safety, efficacy, clinical and cost-effective use of these products for the NHS and its social care partners.

We offer a range of benefits including:

  • 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.

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.

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

Education/Qualifications

Essential
  • Doctorate or Masters degree (or equivalent) or equivalent relevant HTA experience. The qualifications and/or experience should be in subject or subjects related to HTA/evidence-based medicine (health economics, medical statistics, clinical trials, public health and health policy, epidemiology, systematic reviewing)

Experience

Essential
  • Experience in the development of guidelines and health technology assessment

Experience

Essential
  • Experience of health economic evaluation and modelling

Skills/Knowledge

Essential
  • Ability to establish effective working relationships with a range of professionals both internally and externally including training, supporting and guiding less experienced staff

Skills/Knowledge

Essential
  • Excellent writing skills, including the appropriate use of technical language

Skills/Knowledge

Essential
  • Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information and prepare reports and briefing documents

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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Address

Level 1A

City Tower

Manchester

M1 4BT


Employer's website

https://www.nice.org.uk/

Company
NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom M1 4BT
Hybrid / WFH Options
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£53755.00 - £60504.00 a year
Posted
Company
NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom M1 4BT
Hybrid / WFH Options
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£53755.00 - £60504.00 a year
Posted