Heart Valve Disease presenting in adults (Update): Committee Member

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization is seeking guideline committee members for their Heart Valve Disease committee. Responsibilities include attending meetings, contributing informed recommendations, and ensuring adherence to NICE's principles. Ideal candidates should have relevant healthcare experience and demonstrate commitment to equality and diversity. This is an unpaid position where reasonable expenses will be reimbursed, with a commitment required over 18 months. Candidates must also possess the ability to interpret complex data and provide clinical advice.

Benefits

Expenses reimbursed

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare as a practicing healthcare professional.
• Ability to gather, analyse, critique, and synthesize complex information.
• Commitment to eliminating unlawful discrimination and advancing equality.

Responsibilities

• Attend committee meetings and use professional knowledge to inform development.
• Raise concerns about process or details in draft guidance.
• Contribute positively to the work of the committee.

Skills

Knowledge of Heart Valve Disease

Ability to analyse complex data

Commitment to equality and diversity

Job description

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

Heart Valve Disease presenting in adults (Update): Committee Member

The closing date is 05 January 2026

NICE are seeking to appoint guideline committee members for its Heart Valve Disease presenting in adults: investigation and management (Update) guideline committee. This guideline will update the recommendations on TAVI for aortic stenosis within the NICE guideline NG208 (Heart valve disease presenting in adults: investigation and management). This update will focus on recommendations for people at low or intermediate risk only.

We are looking for the following:

• Interventional radiologist (1)
• Advanced clinical practitioner (1)
• Advance Nurse Practitioner/ Structural Heart Clinical Nurse specialist (1)

Midnight on Monday 5th January 2026

If you have an access requirement that prevents you from applying online, please contact [e-mail] and MS Word versions of the forms could be provided for your completion.

Main duties of the job

Committee members agree to:

Set aside enough time to attend committee meetings and use their personal and professional knowledge to inform the development of the guidance (for more guidance on the time required, see the 'Time commitment' section below).

Raise any concerns about process or details in the draft guidance with the committee, and try to resolve these issues within the committee, with support from the guidance developer or the NICE project team.

Contribute positively to the work of the committee and to developing the guidance.

Take full account of the evidence in developing recommendations.

Consider the analysis and interpretation of evidence prepared by the evidence review team.

Act in a professional manner, show good manners and be courteous to colleagues and staff at all times (committee members should behave in a polite, efficient and respectful manner and without bias or favour, using the highest standards of conduct expected in public life and service while on NICE duty).

Be impartial and honest in conducting their duties for NICE, use public funds entrusted to them to the best advantage of NICE, and avoid deliberately damaging the confidence of the public or stakeholders in NICE.

Read and adhere to NICE's Principles.

Act in a way that values equality, diversity, inclusion, dignity and respect.

Read and adhere to NICE's policies on hospitality, declarations of interests and travel and subsistence.

About us

Currently the position of committee member is unpaid. However, NICE will pay reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, including train fares and hotel costs when necessary, for attending committee meetings as set out in NICE's non-staff reimbursement policy.

Committee members employed on Agenda for Change terms and conditions will be reimbursed in line with their current substantive salaries, up to a maximum of £300 per day (more than 4 hours) or £150 per half day (up to and including 4 hours). NICE will reimburse the individual's employer for any salary payments made upon receipt of an invoice. These rates also apply to committee members engaged outside of Agenda for Change but in an equivalent role.

Job responsibilities

To work in collaboration with NICE staff, the guideline Chair over a period of 18 months to develop a clinical care guideline on MASLD on behalf of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

To provide expert knowledge on MASLD and act as a source of clinical care advice to the guideline Chair and NICE staff in the identification and review of evidence.

Members will be supported by NICE staff who will be responsible for overall project management, organising Committee meetings, carrying out evidence reviews and economic analysis.

Act in accordance with the principles of the NICE Code of Conduct

Participate in NICE Committee training

Attend all Committee meetings, held over a period of approximately 12 months. Some of these may be double day meetings. These are normally held virtually but some may be held in person.

Represent the Committee at other meetings if required

Contribute to the development of other related guideline products

Participate in discussion and decision making

Provide expert knowledge onMASLD and act as a source of clinical advice to the guideline Chair and NICE staff in the identification and review of evidence.

Work with the Committee and NICE staff to identify key issues, formulate clinical questions, review evidence tables, identify priorities for economic analysis, advise on appropriate assumptions and data sources for economic models and draft recommendations

Contribute to responses to NICE quality assurance processes

Provide appropriate clinical advice to NICE staff when responding to stakeholder comments on the draft scope and on the draft guideline, along with the guideline Chair

Person Specification

Ability to contribute to the work of the advisory committee

• Looking at the role description and person specification, please tell us about your experience in healthcare as a practicing healthcare professional or working in or in association with the wider aspects of healthcare or the healthcare industries and your experience and interest in Heart Valve Disease specifically. Maximum 500 words.

Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets

• Looking at the role description and person specification, please give details of your ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications. Maximum 500 words.

Equality and diversity

• Looking at the role description and person specification, please tell us how you demonstrate 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 500 words.

Eligibility-It is compulsory to answer all questions, not because you need to meet all the criteria.

• Are you happy to commit to work within the NICE equality scheme?
• Do you commit to keeping committee discussions confidential as needed?
• 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 3months or more in the last 5years?
• 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?
• Have you been earlier term of appointment with NICE terminated?
• 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?

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.

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£1 to £300 a session

See supporting information for details of reimbursement policy.