About the job

Job summary

The Musculoskeletal Trauma and Cosmetic Benefit Risk Evaluation team have a number of exciting opportunities to join their team. Are you a proactive, confident and enthusiastic person and want to join our group talented Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessors in Safety and Surveillance. The range of roles available require different levels of knowledge and experience. The ideal candidates will be willing to take on a challenge and be resilient.  

This particular role that we are currently looking to fill is for a Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessor- Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic to join our 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 4 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 8 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 structure devices and medicines safety expertise with enforcement capabilities. These functions are supported by our data and evidence generating capabilities complementing our signal generating capabilities produced via the new Safety Connect System.

The Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic Benefit Risk Evaluation team monitors the safety of medicines and medical devices across these therapy areas. This includes a large focus on medical devices used for orthopaedics such as hip and knee joint replacements, cosmetic and plastic devices such as breast implants and wound care products used in the trauma context. The team cover medicines such as botox used for cosmetic purposes, musculoskeletal gene therapy and creams and ointments used in wound care. 

 

Job description

To perform benefit risk evaluations within the Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic therapeutic area focusing on medical devices products, provide input into the development of the Benefit Risk Evaluation Group within Safety & Surveillance, working in a matrix way across therapeutic groups and the wider agency as required to ensure patient safety is at the centre of all we do.

Benefit-Risk Evaluation Assessors will be recognized as having extensive regulatory experience and understanding of the operation of all relevant national and international regulations as well as professional, technical or scientific expertise in their discipline.  This post holder will participate in complex engagement and partnership work with patients and the public, key external stakeholders, government departments, professional bodies and the wider health sector.

All benefit risk roles require working flexibly to perform and contribute to benefit risk assessments across all medical products as required.

Person specification

Key responsibilities: 

• Conduct robust assessments regarding medical devices in relation to emerging safety signals utilising a range of data sources.
• Recommend timely and proportionate regulatory actions to enhance benefit and mitigate potential residual patient safety risks; this may include the development of impactful safety messages.
• Be proactive in engaging with all stakeholders including patients and the public, health care professionals and companies to complete benefit risk evaluation assessments.

• Lead and develop cross portfolio projects identifying and deploying resources and mentoring more junior staff as required to achieve agency patient safety goals

 

 Who are we looking for? 

 

Our successful candidate will: 

• Have in depth knowledge and/or experience of relevant regulations and procedures applicable to medical devices and sharing knowledge to improve the capability of the various benefit risk evaluation groups and the wider safety and surveillance function
• Have experience of critically analysing complex clinical/scientific/technical information from several sources under pressure and making appropriate recommendations or decisions to protect patient safety/public health even when the evidence is not clear.
• Be able to use interpersonal skills to influence others to take safety seriously and develop and deliver critical improvements and improvements ways of working across benefit risk evaluation, safety and surveillance and the wider Agency.
• Have a degree/postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. bio engineering, health, science, regulation or equivalent experience
• Be resilient, recover quickly from setbacks and learn from them.

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 £56,353, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency contributes £15,215 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

We use the Civil Service Success Profiles to assess our candidates, find out more here. 

 

• Online application form, including questions based on the Behaviour, Experience and Technical Success Profiles. Please ensure all application questions are completed in full; your application may not be considered if any responses are left blank. Our applications are CV blind, and our Hiring Managers will not be able to access your CV when reviewing your application.
• Interview, which can include questions based on the Behaviour, Experience, Technical and Strengths Success Profiles.

 

Applicants are assessed on whether they meet any mandatory requirements as well as the necessary skills and experience for the role. Applications are scored based on the competency-based answers provided- ensure you have read these thoroughly and allow sufficient time. You can view the competencies for this role in the job description. 

If you require any disability related adjustments at any point during the process, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk as soon as possible. 

  

Closing date: 11/2/2024

Interview date: W/C 26/2/2024

 

If you need assistance applying for this role or have any other questions, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk 

 

Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here. 

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Any move to the MHRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here.

 

Successful candidates may be subject to annual Occupational Health reviews dependent on role requirements. If you have any queries, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk.

 

In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should firstly contact Mira Mepa, Head of Recruitment and Operations, Mira.Mepa@mhra.gov.uk.  

 

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk 

 

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.