Employer NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Employer type: NHS
Site: 3rd Floor, Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (plus HCAS if applicable)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 23/04/2025
Technical Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome everyone from all backgrounds to apply so we can continue to create a workforce which is representative of the communities we serve.
If you are suitably qualified and have an interest in remote, hybrid, full-time or part-time working, we encourage you to get in touch as we are happy to discuss potential flexible working opportunities.
We have modern offices in Manchester city centre and Stratford, London. Please take into consideration that you may be required to commute to one of our offices for business purposes if necessary.
Job overview
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.
The Technical Analyst provides technical and methodological input into producing evidence-based guidance, including developing recommendations and quality standards. The Technical Analyst will also contribute to the development of guideline methods within the Centre for Guidelines and work across NICE to support aligned methods and processes across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
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.
We are looking for someone who can:
* Lead the development of evidence reviews
* Undertake 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 relevant staff or Committee members
* 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, including people with the medical condition in question
* Contribute to technical and organisational developments and propose changes to policy and methodology
Working for our organisation
The Centre for Guidelines Professional Team is responsible for providing methodological and technical expertise in the development of NICE guidance.
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 the full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Postgraduate qualification or equivalent level of knowledge in subjects with relevance to evidence-based decision-making (e.g. economics, public health, health psychology, mathematics, operational research, data science) or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
Experience
* 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
* Experience or familiarity with research design, methodology, conduct and reporting
Experience
* Experience using at least 1 software package for the analysis of statistics (e.g. R, Stata, SPSS)
Skills/Knowledge
* Highly Specialist/Advanced expertise in at least one of the following areas: healthcare research methods; systematic methodology and synthesis; quality improvement methods; routinely collected health data; medical statistics; clinical trials; public health and health policy; social care; or epidemiology
Skills/Knowledge
* Highly developed knowledge of the principles of evidence-based healthcare, critical appraisal and the interpretation and synthesis of health care research evidence
Skills/Knowledge
* 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
* Familiarity with methods for synthesising statistical data, such as Bayesian network meta-analysis using WinBUGS
Important - Due to NICE’s use of anonymised recruitment practices we ask all candidates not to include any personal details within their application. Please ensure you provide sufficient detail in the supporting information section to allow our team to make an informed judgement about your suitability for this role at this stage. CVs will not be considered.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates must ensure that all information provided in their application is factually accurate. Any examples provided must be taken from personal experience. The Civil Service abides by honesty and integrity as part of its core values; if evidence of plagiarism is found, applications may be withdrawn.
By submitting an application, you agree that it may be rejected or subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Please contact Careers@nice.org.uk if you wish to discuss any additional needs or reasonable adjustments which may support you with your application and/or at interview.
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