Deputy Parliamentary Clerk

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care Full time

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Salary:

- £41,946
  • London
- £41,946
Job grade:

  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
  • Loan
  • Secondment
    Length of employment:
  • These roles are being advertised on a permanent basis. Loan or Secondment options will also be available if preferable.

Business area:

  • DHSC
  • Group Operations
  • Ministers, Accountability and Strategy
    Type of role:
  • Operational Delivery
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • London
About the job

Job summary:


In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer.

To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values:
we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you'd like to work in, we'd love to hear from you.

The DHSC Parliamentary Affairs Team has a role available as the Deputy Parliamentary Clerk. The role is the formal deputy for the Parliamentary Clerk, who leads the Parliamentary Affairs Team.

This post currently has specific responsibility for overseeing ministerial business in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

This post is responsible for planning for and publishing Written Ministerial Statements and leads the Department's relationships with Select Committees.

This post is also undertaking a project reviewing the Department's secondary legislation programme and implementing improvements to processes, which is a key ministerial priority.


The Parliamentary Affairs Team sits within the Private Office, Intelligence and Parliamentary division, led by the Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State.

Our role is to support Ministers and officials to deliver the Department's objectives through intelligent, collaborative and strategic parliamentary management, insight and engagement.

This is a fast-paced role in a busy team and you will have significant exposure to Ministers and senior officials.


Job description:


You will lead on all routine ministerial business in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, overseeing the arrangement and commissioning of briefings for all parliamentary debates.

You will support the Parliamentary Clerk on urgent questions and oral statements.

You will be the parliamentary lead for Health and Social Care oral questions in the Commons, providing high-quality advice and guidance to Ministers and officials.

You will also be responsible for advising Ministers and officials on written ministerial statements, which you will see through to publication.


You will be the first point of contact for the Department on Select Committees, leading on engagement and maintaining a strong relationship with the Committee Clerks.

You will advise on the submission of written evidence and responses to reports, ensuring correspondence is managed and answered in a timely manner, and support Ministers in their appearances before the Committees.

You will also support the Parliamentary Affairs Team more widely on primary and secondary legislation, as needed.

This includes leading a review of the Department's secondary legislation programme, examining processes, and suggesting improvements and compiling a training programme for the Department.

You will provide support to the formation and making of secondary legislation, providing advice to the Department and ensuring parliamentary processes are followed.


You will directly line manage two EO Parliamentary Officers, who arrange all ministerial briefing in the Houses of Commons and Lords which you will oversee.

You will also be responsible for ensuring that No.10 briefing requests are responded to in a timely manner with high quality information.


This post will require you to work on an early and late duty rota with the Parliamentary Clerk, and be 'on call' outside of normal working hours and on weekends to provide parliamentary advice to the Department, for which an allowance will be provided.


Person specification:

Role Responsibilities:

  • Acting as the formal Deputy for the Parliamentary Clerk;
  • Providing expert parliamentary procedural advice to Ministers and officials;
  • Overseeing the arrangement of and commissioning of briefings for all ministerial debates in both Houses of Parliament;
  • Leading on oral questions in the House of Commons;
  • Leading on written ministerial statements;
  • Being the first point of contact on Select Committees;
  • Supporting on the formation of secondary legislation and leading a review of the Department's secondary legislation programme;
  • Line managing two EO Parliamentary Officers;
  • Creating new processes and improving old ones to ensure the Parliamentary Affairs Team continues to innovate and provide an excellent parliamentary service to the De

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