[ref. s52417102] Senior Analyst – HealthTech Programme
Job overview
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:
2 fixed-term or secondment maternity cover contracts until 27th February 2026
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.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 11 February 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.
Working for our organisation
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 can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
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, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
- Personal development tailored to your needs.
Detailed job description and main 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
Essential criteria- 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 criteria- Experience in the development of guidelines and health technology assessment
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of health economic evaluation and modelling (please specify whether any of this experience is in the context of health guidelines or health technology assessment, or medical or health related technologies)
Experience
Desirable criteria- Experience in training or guiding other members of staff
Experience
Desirable criteria- Experience working on projects involving medical technologies, devices, interventional procedures, diagnostics, or digital health technologies
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to establish effective working relationships with a range of professionals both internally and externally including training, supporting and guiding less experienced staff
Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent writing skills, including the appropriate use of technical language
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information and prepare reports and briefing documents