Information Science and Horizon Scanning Lead

5 months ago

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

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 303916**Salary**:

- £50,829- National: £50829 London: £54655- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options for 2 years will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment). Prior agreement to**Business area**:

- DHSC - Office for Health Improvement and Disparities**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Leeds, LondonAbout 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 Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) drives the Government’s health improvement agenda. Under the professional leadership of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), OHID leads the development and delivery of the Government’s work to improve and level up health outcomes. This includes cross-government action on the wider determinants of health. Sitting at the heart of DHSC, the work of OHID will shift the focus of the Department, NHS and wider health system, and partners across local and national government and beyond, ensuring that public health, prevention, and health inequalities are prioritised.

OHID hosts the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) which is a formally constituted, independent, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) which advises Ministers and the NHS in the four UK countries on all aspects of screening. It is currently chaired by Professor Sir Mike Richards.

The UK NSC uses research evidence, in service evaluations and economic evaluation to assess the evidence for screening programmes. This assessment is based upon a set of internationally recognised criteria. These criteria cover the condition, the test, the treatment options and the effectiveness and acceptability of screening programme. Assessing programmes in this evidence-based way helps to ensure they do more good than harm at affordable cost. The UK NSC is supported by a secretariat, which includes the Evidence Team.

The Evidence Team provides a knowledge support service to inform the UK NSC’s decision making. It is responsible for managing the evidence review processes and plays a vital role in helping the UK NSC make sure its recommendations are always up to date and based on the best possible evidence. It achieves this by delivering a series of evidence product development projects.

The Committee’s remit and processes have recently undergone significant change. The Committee’s remit has been extended to include targeted screening and stratified screening, in addition to whole population screening.

In response to this expanded remit, the Evidence Team is expanding in size and developing four distinct sub teams with responsibility for supporting the Committee’s requirements in the following areas:

- Horizon scanning, prioritisation, and information science
- Modelling
- Research and methodology
- Targeted screening portfolio development, focusing on liaison work with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

**Length of employment. This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment).**

**Job description**:
This post is a key role in the newly expanded UK NSC Secretariat and will be primarily concerned with issues relating to the Committee’s horizon scanning and prioritisation processes.

The role will be focused on bringing together and leading and managing a team which will:

- develop and support the UK NSC horizon scanning and prioritisation functions by delivering a horizon scanning workstream and identifying ongoing development needs
- contribute to the delivery of the wider UK NSC Evidence Team programme of evidence product development projects

The role requires:

- specialist knowledge of screening and UK NSC processes
- information science and knowledge management skills
- excellent organisational and project management skills
- a flexible approach and ability to work with mínimal supervision within a rapidly evolving environment, which is frequently exposed to a high degree of public

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