Job summary
2 X permanent positions available.
This is an exciting, permanent, band 8a opportunity, for a motivated individual to join South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) Clinical Effectiveness Team. This role is suitable for an individual with extensive knowledge and experience in clinical effectiveness, evidence-based health care or medicines optimisation. Ideal candidates will have experience in clinical policy and guideline development within the NHS.
Main duties of the job
This role will work within the Clinical Effectiveness Team to ensure high quality clinical effectiveness input into services provided to SCW customers. The role supports the delivery of work to ensure that commissioned healthcare services are founded on evidence-based practices, national standards and consider guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Department of Health and NHS England.
The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of evidence-based practice and NHS Commissioning, in particular clinical policy development. The post requires skills in literature searching, critical appraisal, synthesis of research (medicines and non-medicines) and data analysis. Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to develop relationships across a wide range of professional groups is also required. You will be working within a challenging new NHS environment and will need to be creative and proactive in your approach.
About us
This role within the SCW Clinical Effectiveness Team involves managing and delivering a workplan of clinical policy reviews for ICB customers. In addition, it may involve responding to new consultancy and project work as they arise. The office base location is negotiable with flexible/agile working principles.
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of clinical effectiveness and evidence based health care and medicine, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of researching best practice in health and social care (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Good knowledge of sources of information and evidence related to health care research and clinical best practice.
- Good understanding of the principles of conducting systematic literature searches.
- Familiarity with epidemiology and statistics, health economics and health care evaluation.
- Knowledge of the local and national health and social care priorities and current issues from commissioner and provider perspectives.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Knowledge of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of interpreting complex information, distilling key messages and themes and presenting a position and options to senior audiences.
- Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of making decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Ability to interpret complex national and local health care data, including audits and benchmarking data, relevant to clinical practice.
- Ability to critically appraise literature and different types of research and draw conclusions and recommendations on complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and draw conclusions.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking approach, ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to create and give presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to the Customer / Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints.
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Previous experience in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of clinical effectiveness and evidence based health care and medicine, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of researching best practice in health and social care (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Good knowledge of sources of information and evidence related to health care research and clinical best practice.
- Good understanding of the principles of conducting systematic literature searches.
- Familiarity with epidemiology and statistics, health economics and health care evaluation.
- Knowledge of the local and national health and social care priorities and current issues from commissioner and provider perspectives.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Knowledge of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of interpreting complex information, distilling key messages and themes and presenting a position and options to senior audiences.
- Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of making decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
- Thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Ability to interpret complex national and local health care data, including audits and benchmarking data, relevant to clinical practice.
- Ability to critically appraise literature and different types of research and draw conclusions and recommendations on complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and draw conclusions.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking approach, ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers.
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to create and give presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to the Customer / Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints.
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Previous experience in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
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.
.png){kind=logo}
