NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Technical Adviser

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Job summary

As technical adviser at NICE, you'll be joining the senior leadership of the publishing team at an exciting time as we explore new technology to support our guidance and advice content to make it more useful and usable for our audiences. You will use your technical understanding of publishing software and systems to provide support for users of the current NICE Publications and InDev systems and lead planning for the migration of our guidance and advice content to any new content management system/s. You will coordinate, manage and oversee our guidance publishing activities and lead a team providing the support functions (technical and project management) for the publishing team.

Main duties of the job

  • Lead on coordinating, managing and overseeing our guidance publishing activities, providing oversight and governance of publishing team's use of NICE Publications system and the associated guidance publication process.
  • Lead a team providing the support functions (technical and project management), ensuring appropriate and consistent quality control and workload management processes are in place for the publishing team and its broad and complex portfolio.
  • Operational business owner for current publication systems (InDev and NICE Publications) plus any future systems to support the authoring, management, publishing and maintenance of our guidance and related content.Represent the needs of the publishing team in the procurement of a new CCMS (and supporting systems).
  • Lead on migration planning for our guidance and advice content to a new CCMS (and supporting systems).
  • Lead on training for the team for any new systems and new ways of working.
  • Lead on making changes to our publishing systems to support improvements to our guidance and advice website pages, building relationships with relevant teams across NICE.
  • Lead on meeting accessibility regulations and following NICE policy for all our guidance and advice products published on the NICE website. Lead the prioritising and updating of non-compliant content.

About us

The Publishing team has a key role in creating our guidance content and is responsible for managing, publishing and maintaining NICE's guidance and advice web pages. We put users at the centre of everything we do, so that our guidance content is accessible, understandable, consistent, and meets our users' needs. We work closely with teams across NICE at all stages of guidance development. Our team of 29 includes guidance content designers, content advisers and digital publishers who have lots of varied experience in producing high-quality and user-friendly content.

We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.

Details

Date posted

24 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

Reference number

907-694

Job locations

3rd Floor

3 Piccadilly Place

Manchester

M1 3BN


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

Education/Qualifications

Essential

  • Master's degree or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.

Experience

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge in, and experience of, managing a mass content migration project (from system to system); demonstrating skills in prioritisation, risk analysis and developing strategies for quality assurance.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of prioritising and project managing publishing system improvements.

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge of publishing software and systems and able to analyse and describe complex workflows, identifying whether issues require a technical or process solution (or combination of both).

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • Content design and content strategy skills, with experience of applying these across different environments.
Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

  • Master's degree or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.

Experience

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge in, and experience of, managing a mass content migration project (from system to system); demonstrating skills in prioritisation, risk analysis and developing strategies for quality assurance.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of prioritising and project managing publishing system improvements.

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge of publishing software and systems and able to analyse and describe complex workflows, identifying whether issues require a technical or process solution (or combination of both).

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

  • Content design and content strategy skills, with experience of applying these across different environments.

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).

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.

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

3rd Floor

3 Piccadilly Place

Manchester

M1 3BN


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Address

3rd Floor

3 Piccadilly Place

Manchester

M1 3BN


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Senior Content Adviser

Alison Lake

Alison.lake@nice.org.uk

Details

Date posted

24 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

Reference number

907-694

Job locations

3rd Floor

3 Piccadilly Place

Manchester

M1 3BN


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