General Practitioner Clinical Adviser

Job summary

NICE is seeking an experienced GP in active clinical practice to work 2 days/week to support the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and their team in ensuring that NICE gets its guidance and advice right for GPs. This is an exciting new role working alongside a clinical multidisciplinary team of doctors, pharmacists, a social care adviser and a nurse adviser so that NICE's work has the right clinical and care focus across all its programmes of work. Importantly, the GP clinical adviser will be a credible face for NICE and be seen as the NICE expert on primary care by those working both in other organisations and within NICE. The role would suit someone looking for career development who is comfortable working with evidence to bring about change and make a meaningful impact.

The post holder will:

• Provide a primary care perspective to NICE's work, ensuring that impact on primary care is considered in all guidance.
• With the CMO, represent NICE both on primary care issues and with primary care stakeholders as well as with the wider primary care community.
• Provide clinical leadership to a suite of NICE guidance and contribute to its quality assurance, and to the development of the methodologies and processes that underpin the production of this guidance.
• Provide clinical advice and oversight to support decision-making and associated outputs throughout the lifecycle of a suite of NICE guidance.

Please note CV applications will not be accepted, only online applications completed via TRAC will be considered.

Main duties of the job

The main duties are to:

• Provide clinical leadership and advice
  • With and on stakeholders
  • Support for prioritisation
  • Throughout guidance development
• Develop and maintain a network
• Support methodological development
• Quality assure certain outputs
• Help identify, evaluate and manage risks
• Represent the NICE CMO as and when required
• Support training and development of others as well as maintaining their own personal and professional development.

About us

The purpose of the clinical directorate is to strengthen clinical 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.

The core task of the directorate in support of NICE's strategic direction is to develop and deliver an organisation-wide horizon scanning, topic selection and prioritisation process that identifies and prioritises what has the greatest impact on people and the health and care system.

The directorate is also responsible for ensuring that the clinical requirements of NICE are anticipated and met in a dynamic way that is responsive to changing need.

Benefits:

• We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
• We provide a thorough induction programme
• 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.