Chair (Technology Appraisal Committee)

Integrated Care System; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A health advisory organization in the UK is seeking a Chair for its Technology Appraisal Committee. The role involves leading discussions on the evidence for new medicines' effectiveness in the NHS, ensuring equity considerations, and guiding committee members. Excellent communication skills and experience in health or social care are required. The position is remunerated for 5 Programmed Activities per week, and NICE will cover reasonable travel expenses. Commitment to the role includes attending approximately 12 committee meetings a year.

Benefits

Reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses

Opportunity to influence healthcare decision-making

Qualifications

• Experience in health or social care required.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize complex information is necessary.
• Commitment to advancing equality and understanding of health inequalities.
• Excellent communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Chair the meetings of the advisory committees.
• Review and edit documentation for guidance.
• Ensure compliance with NICE policies.
• Advise on topic selection and methods used by the programmes.

Skills

Experience in health or social care

Ability to gather and analyze complex data

Commitment to equality and diversity

Excellent oral and written communication

Job description

Go back NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Chair (Technology Appraisal Committee)

The closing date is 18 August 2025

We're looking for a Chair to join our Technology Appraisal Committee.

NICETechnology Appraisal committees assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of (primarily) new medicines to see if they should be routinely commissioned in the NHS. If the committee makes a positive recommendation, the NHS has a legal obligation to fund the treatments, usually within 90 days. The Technology Appraisal committees look at innovative technologies (such as CAR-T in oncology), technologies that have the potential to improve the health of a large number of people (such as inclisiran in cardiovascular disease) or make a meaningful difference to people with very severe disease (such as risdiplam in spinal muscular atrophy).

Closing date: Midnight on Monday 18 August 2025

Main duties of the job

The chair ensures that the committee takes full account of the evidence in developing recommendations and considers the analysis and interpretation of the evidence prepared by the evidence review team.

While all committee members must ensure appropriate consideration of the implications of guidance for equality, this is a particular responsibility for the chair.

The chair should also offer committee members feedback and comment on their contribution to the committee, on an annual basis, for revalidation purposes or personal development.

The chairs of advisory committees are in a special position in relation to the work of their committee and have greater scope to influence the outcome of discussions. The chair helps the committee to work collaboratively, ensures a balanced contribution from all committee members and takes decisions about the potential conflicts of interest of their committee members.

Before you consider applying for the role of chair, please ensure you read the conflicts of interest section of this document and refer to NICE's policy on declaring and managing interests for NICE advisory committees.

Please see attached information for applicants document for the detailed role description.

About us

The Chair is remunerated for 5 Programmed Activities per week. See non-staff reimbursement policy.

NICE will pay reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, including train fares and hotel costs when necessary, for attending committee meetings.

Other expenses:

NICE recognises that in some circumstances individuals will need to arrange for carers or support workers to accompany them to a meeting, or to take over unpaid caring responsibilities while they are at a meeting - this includes childcare or care of a family member with a disability or other additional needs. The circumstances in which NICE can provide reimbursement for such costs are outlined in the non-staff reimbursement policy.

Time commitment:

Attend 12 day-long committee meetings a year. Our committees have been meeting virtually using online software since the COVID-19 pandemic. A small number of meetings are held in person.

Committee meetings in public:

Committee meetings are held in public. See NICE's information on advisory committee meetings. Standing committees:

Membership will be for 3 years and will be eligible for renewal. The second and further periods of office will be for periods of up to 3 years by mutual agreement, up to a maximum of 10 years.

Job responsibilities

The Chairs' main responsibilities:

• Chair the meetings of the advisory committees and lead the committee in the application of NICE methods in the development of guidance documents
• Attend, and occasionally chair, committee training days
• Review and edit the documentation for scoping, consultation, and the final guidance, in collaboration with the NICE team
• Ensure compliance at all meetings with the NICE conflicts of interests policy, code of conduct and the methodology and process
• Prepare for meetings in collaboration with technical and project staff, including development of presentations to the committee
• Advise on and input to the development of topic selection, methods and processes used by the programmes within the Medicines Evaluation directorate
• Support committee member recruitment and induction as necessary
• Attend NICE Board Strategy meetings as appropriate

Person Specification

Ability to contribute to the work of the committee

• Experience in health or social care (as appropriate), either as a practicing health or social care professional, or working in or in association with the wider aspects of health or social care or the healthcare industries Maximum 400 words.

Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets

• Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications. Maximum 400 words.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

• Commitment to eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality and an understanding or awareness of the issues of inequality in health, public health and social care settings. Maximum 400 words.

Ability to exercise judgement across a wide range of issues

• Looking at the role description and person specification, please tell us how you meet the criteria listed under 'ability to exercise judgement across a wide range of issues'. Maximum 400 words
• Are you happy to commit to work within the NICE equality scheme?
• Do you commit to keeping committee discussions confidential as needed?
• Do you have the time to commit to this committee's work? (This includes attending meetings, reading papers, commenting on draft documents, and other work as required)
• Have you worked, or do you work as a healthcare, social care or public health professional? If yes, please give details including profession, specialty and dates:
• Have you received a prison sentence or suspended sentence of 3 months or more in the last 5 years (this will usually lead to disqualification unless NICE is actively seeking lay member candidates with this experience, for example, prison health topics)?
• Are you the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or interim order?
• Have you been dismissed (except by redundancy) by any NHS or social care body?
• Are you under a disqualification order under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986?
• Have you been removed from trusteeship of a charity?
• Are you employed by the Department for Health and Social Care?
• Are you employed by NHS England's national commissioning functions?
• Are you appointed by NHS England as a National Clinical Director, National Specialty Lead, or Clinical Reference Group chair?

Excellent oral and written communication

• Looking at the role description and person specification, please tell us how you meet the criteria listed under 'excellent oral and written communication skills'. Maximum 400 words.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

£1 to £1,000 a sessionPlease see the non-staff reimbursement policy.