Job summary
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance and advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care.
We improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services by:
- producing evidence-based guidance and advice for health, public health and social care practitioners
- developing quality standards and performance metrics for people providing and commissioning health, public health and social care services
- providing a range of information services for commissioners, practitioners and managers across the spectrum of health and social care.
The Centre for Guidelines develops guidance on the promotion of good health and social care and the prevention of ill health, the appropriate treatment and care for people with specific diseases and conditions, and service delivery. The guidance is used by those working in the NHS, local government, social care, and patients and their families. The NICE guidelines programme is one of the largest in the world, having produced more than 300 guidelines since it was established in 2001.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for people with demonstrable experience in conducting systematic reviews or evidence syntheses.
You will be based in the Professional team within the Centre for Guidelines and will work on a range of topics collaboratively within small multidisciplinary teams.
You will provide methodological input into producing evidence -based guidance, including development of recommendations and quality standards for the NHS.
We are interested in hearing from experienced systematic reviewers who can:
- Lead the development of evidence reviews
- Undertake systematic reviews and evidence synthesis, including
- Evaluating the validity and relevance of data which may be highly complex, and from a variety of sources
- Critically appraising relevant clinical research studies
- Collating and summarising qualitative and quantitative evidence
- Synthesising information to give a balanced view of the evidence base
- Assessing the completeness of the evidence base, identifying gaps and highlighting important issues for discussion by topic experts
- Producing evidence reports that include deliberative discussions and conclusions that underpin decision making
- Collate, interpret and present current practice data when supporting the development of Quality Standard statements
- Present highly complex and sometimes conflicting or contentious information with clarity and sensitivity to groups of people including topic experts and non-specialists
About us
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment. In particular, NICE has several Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued within NICE.
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.
- Personal development tailored to your needs.
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.
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
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in and contributing to at least one area of guidance or policy development: surveillance; health research and assessment; systematic review methodology; quality improvement methods; implementation or; health technology assessment
Experience
Essential
- Experience or familiarity with research design, methodology, conduct and reporting.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in critically appraising health literature.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Highly Specialist/Advanced expertise in at least one of the following areas: healthcare research methods; systematic review methodology and synthesis; quality improvement methods; routinely collected health date; medical statistics; clinical trials; public health and health policy; social care or; epidemiology
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- The ability to take primary responsibility for the design and execution of evidence synthesis to support any stage of developing guidance or standards.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information accurately and persuasively using a variety of presentation techniques, in accessible language to an audience of varied technical backgrounds, and sensitively to patients who have the medical condition under discussion.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in and contributing to at least one area of guidance or policy development: surveillance; health research and assessment; systematic review methodology; quality improvement methods; implementation or; health technology assessment
Experience
Essential
- Experience or familiarity with research design, methodology, conduct and reporting.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in critically appraising health literature.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Highly Specialist/Advanced expertise in at least one of the following areas: healthcare research methods; systematic review methodology and synthesis; quality improvement methods; routinely collected health date; medical statistics; clinical trials; public health and health policy; social care or; epidemiology
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- The ability to take primary responsibility for the design and execution of evidence synthesis to support any stage of developing guidance or standards.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information accurately and persuasively using a variety of presentation techniques, in accessible language to an audience of varied technical backgrounds, and sensitively to patients who have the medical condition under discussion.
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).
