Specialist Committee Member (Quality Standards) Anxiety & PTSD in Manchester

This is a specialist committee member post on NICE's Quality Standards Advisory Committee, covering anxiety and PTSD topics. The work helps develop a quality standard, including prioritising areas of care for statements and measures, reviewing evidence and consultation comments, and preparing for two all-day meetings. NICE is seeking a psychiatrist specialising in children and young people among its members, with meetings mainly virtual and occasional in-person or hybrid sessions over ten months. Applicants need active professional registration and a licence to practise.

What the job involves

• Attend two all-day Quality Standards Advisory Committee meetings
• Use personal and professional knowledge to inform development of the quality standard
• Prioritise areas of care for which quality statements and measures should be developed
• Read, review and comment on material at key points in the quality standard's development
• Consider NICE team analysis and interpretation of evidence and consultation comments
• Prepare for meetings by reading papers and gathering relevant information
• Attend short 30-minute virtual meetings with the NICE team before each committee meeting
• Raise concerns about process or draft content and seek to resolve them within the committee
• Work with the NICE team and committee chair between meetings, often to tight deadlines
• Follow agreed decision-making procedures and accept collective committee decisions
• Act impartially and professionally, following NICE's Principles and its policies on hospitality, declarations of interests and travel
• Champion the quality standard after publication and promote its endorsement

Qualifications

• Psychiatrist specialising in children and young people

Registration & licences

• Active registration with the appropriate professional body
• Licence to practise

Experience

• Experience in health or social care, as a practising professional or working in or alongside the health or social care sector
• Interest in anxiety and/or PTSD

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to gather, analyse, critique and synthesise complex data and information, evidenced by experience or academic qualifications
• Understanding of the social, political, economic and professional influences on NICE
• Commitment to eliminating unlawful discrimination and advancing equality, and awareness of inequality in health and care settings

Other

• Clearly and persuasively stated reasons for applying
• Stating the post applied for

What’s offered

• Reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, including train fares and hotel costs, for in-person committee meetings
• Reimbursement of certain carer or childcare costs for meeting attendance, under NICE's non-staff reimbursement policy
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working

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