Associate Signal Assessor

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

- 378178**Salary**:

- £32,617- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MHRA - Safety and Surveillance Group**Type of role**:

- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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**Job summary**:
We are currently looking for **Associate Signal Assessors** to join our **Patient Safety Monitoring Function** within the **Safety and Surveillance group.**

This is a **full-time** opportunity, on a **permanent **basis. The role will be based in 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.

Government departments and agencies are working towards implementing a minimum 60% attendance in office sites.

We are currently implementing a flexible, hybrid way of working, with a minimum of 8 days per month working on site to enable the collaboration and contact with partners and stakeholders needed to deliver MHRA business. Attendance on site is driven by business needs so depending on the nature of the role, this can flex up to 12 days a month, with the remainder of time worked either remotely or in the office. Some roles will need to be on site more regularly.

**Who are we?**

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.

The new Safety and Surveillance Group brings together a cohesive team of devices and medicines safety expertise. The dual functions of our data and evidence sourcing complementing our signal generation capabilities allows the Group to have patient safety as the main priority.

The Patient Safety Monitoring Function is responsible for developing and delivering a world class vigilance system to detect and monitor safety signals for medicines, medical devices, vaccines and blood products.

**Job description**:
The Adverse Incident & Signal Analysis team is responsible for the capture of adverse incidents for Medicines and Devices. Vigilance signal detection and assessment processes are undertaken for medicines and devices to ensure safety issues and risks to public health are identified and evaluated. Additional activities for this role include responding to enquiries from stakeholders and provision of adverse incident data to stakeholders and project specific work. The successful applicants will work flexibly across the range of healthcare products.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Classification and follow-up of adverse incident reports to ensure the accuracy, quality and timely production of vigilance incident cases.
- Vigilance signal detection and evaluation and attendance at review meetings.
- Provide clear, reliable and timely scientific, regulatory advice and data for FOI requests and all types of queries.
- To be involved in vigilance additional role work and projects including NHS data review, liaison with our Yellow Card Centres, improvement of electronic incident submission with website and app maintenance and enhancements, vigilance terminology maintenance and engagement with manufacturers.

**Person specification**:

- Able to work on own initiative and work effectively as part of a team, demonstrating good organisational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to produce work to high standards of quality within a pressurised time frame.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and make appropriate recommendations under pressure, putting forward own viewpoints when discussing scientific issues.
- A University degree or equivalent qualification in disciplines such as: pharmacy, medicine, nursing, physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, biological sciences, engineering or other appropriate life science.

If you would like to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, please read our Job Description and Person Specification

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £32,617, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency contributes £9,449 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Annual Leave: 25 days annual leave on entry, rising by one day for each completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days and pro-rata for part-time staff. PLUS 8 bank holidays
- Privilege Leave: 1 day
- Hours of Work: 37 hours (net) per week for full time staff in all geographical locations, including London and pro rata for part-time staff
- Occupational Sick Pay (OSP): One month full pay/one month half pay on entry, rising by one month for each completed year of service to a maximum of five months full pay/five months half pay
- Mobility: