Associate Scientific Assessor

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

- 427751

**Salary**:

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

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Fixed term

**Length of employment**:

- 12 months

**Business area**:

- MHRA - Safety and Surveillance Group

**Type of role**:

- Science

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Canary Wharf, London

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
We are currently looking for an **Associate Scientific Assessor**to join our **Benefit Risk Evaluation I** Function within the **Safety & Surveillance** group.

This is a **full-time** opportunity, on a **12 month fixed term contract/internal move or temporary promotion**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 Safety and Surveillance Group brings together into a single integrated structure devices and medicines safety expertise with enforcement capabilities. These functions will be supported by our data and evidence generating capabilities complementing our signal generating capabilities produced via the new Safety Connect System.

**Job description**:
Medicines and devices have traditionally been regulated separately largely driven by different regulatory processes and ways of working. As science and technology drives increasing understanding of disease, it is also opening new opportunities for treatments; product profiles are changing, becoming ever more complex and the boundaries between disciplines are blurring. As such we have brought these functional capabilities together to better address the regulatory challenges of the future. Against this background and the drive to improve treatment availability for patients, safety remains at the heart of our decision making. As such the core objective of the Safety & Surveillance Group is to protect the public from risks associated with medicines and medical devices by:

- Ensuring a world class, comprehensive vigilance system that can promptly detect and monitor signals across the product life cycle
- Evaluating the benefit risk of medicines and devices for which signals or other safety concerns emerge and developing effective and measurable risk mitigation measures
- Ensuring patients and other stakeholders are involved in the regulatory processes and appropriate messages are issued for patients and stakeholders following regulatory decisions
- Deploying innovative interventions to reduce the criminal threat
- Exploiting data and embracing new technologies to develop the evidence to support our actions and understand their impact

**What’s the role?**

**Safety and Surveillance: Benefit Risk Evaluation**

Benefit Risk I

Benefit Risk II

Oncology, Haematology, Thrombotic disease

Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic

Biosafety, Nonclinical and Emerging Technologies

Respiratory, Imaging and Critical Care

Vaccines, Infectious Diseases and Diagnostics

Cardiovascular and Fluid Management

Skin, Senses, Movement and Pain

Metabolic and Renal Systems

Psychiatric Disorders, Cognition and Mental Health

Gastrointestinal System, Nutrition, Endocrine and Fertility

**Key responsibilities**:

- Ensuring the quality and accuracy of Sentinel records.

**Person specification**:
**Who are we looking for?**
- A degree in pharmacy, pharmacology, nursing, physiology, toxicology or other relevant life science discipline.
- Excellent IT skills and attention to detail combined with a desire to ensure that accurate product information is made publicly available.
- Experience of working in a regulatory environment or other relevant area and use of associated systems would be an advantage
- Ability to analyse and interpret data and make appropriate recommendations under pressure.
- Confidence and ability to work as part of a team in a fast paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

If you would like to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, p