Clinical Editor - Medical Writing & Regulatory Quality

ICON Strategic Solutions; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement planning

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

ICON Strategic Solutions is seeking a Medical Editor to ensure accuracy of content in clinical and regulatory documents prepared by Medical Writing. You will edit, fact-check, and quality-review clinical content and ensure alignment with guidelines and templates.

The role emphasises editorial excellence, attention to detail, and collaboration with medical writers to deliver inspection-ready documents in a sponsor-d dedicated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline.
• At least 3 years of experience in medical editing or scientific writing
• Strong knowledge of medical terminology and understanding of clinical research processes and regulations
• Excellent language skills (reading, writing, editing, team communication)
• Ability to interpret clinical data and literature
• Knowledge of AMA Manual of Style, other style guides and related guidelines
• Expertise in Microsoft Word, including advanced formatting, styles, cross-referencing, bookmarks
• Fluent in English
• Basic understanding of Acrobat/PDF software

Responsibilities

• Perform quality reviews and edit clinical documents, regulatory submissions, and related documents
• Conduct detailed data accuracy reviews and fact-checks in clinical and regulatory documents, tables, and literature
• Substantively edit and proofread documents to correct grammar, spelling, style and format
• Verify document content is consistent with internal, client, and authority guidelines
• Format, styles, and troubleshoot functionality and presentation of documents and templates
• Communicate with medical writers and team members to ensure accuracy of documents
• Ensure inspection-readiness of medical writing activities

Skills

Medical terminology

Editing

Team communication

Data interpretation

English fluency

AMA Manual of Style knowledge

Acrobat/PDF software

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline

Tools

Microsoft Word

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

ICON Strategic Solutions is seeking a Medical Editor to ensure accuracy of content in clinical and regulatory documents prepared by Medical Writing. You will edit, fact-check, and quality-review clinical content and ensure alignment with guidelines and templates.

The role emphasises editorial excellence, attention to detail, and collaboration with medical writers to deliver inspection-ready documents in a sponsor-d dedicated environment.