Policy Intern - London, United Kingdom - Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Policy Intern - Policy, Information and Communications
:Full-time annual salary
: £13.15 per hour (£23,933 full time yearly equivalent)

Contract Length:
12 weeks (1 July - 20th Sept)**
Hours:7 hours per day, 5 days per week**
Interview dates:Approximately 22nd May - 31st May**
Location:Hybrid:
Stratford, London for 1-2 days per week and working from home the rest of the time (any home working needs to be in the UK)**
Positions:1****We are now recruiting for our Summer 2024 Internship programme
**_Are you looking for an exciting internship opportunity at one of the UK's largest health charities?
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_Why we need you _
**Cancer Research UK is the world's largest charity dedicated to beating all types of cancer. We now have an opportunity for you to join us as a Policy Intern.

_What will I be doing? _

This internship is an ideal opportunity for people at the beginning of their career as a policy professional and will provide opportunities to develop skills in policy development. You will do this by contributing Cancer Research UK's work to ensure people affected by cancer are receiving the best possible care, looking at robotic surgery for treatment of cancer in the UK. You
will have the exciting opportunity to contribute to CRUK's general election work and will get experience of working in fast-paced policy team in what is likely to be an important general election year.**
Role and Purpose
**Health Policy

_Treatments (70% of the role) _

You will get the opportunity to lead the development of an internal research report on the use of robotic surgery for the treatment of cancer in England. Robotic surgery is an exciting, innovative area that could have significant positive impacts on the NHS, with the potential to increase capacity for the healthcare system by improving surgery efficiency and reducing patient recovery times.

The area has been consistently gaining interest in recent years and we discuss this in our recently published Programme for UK Government:
Longer, better lives.

It also links to an important area of CRUK's strategy to support the translation of new innovations to patients and ensure that this is done in an equitable way.

The overall aim of the project report is to inform CRUK's policy development around robotic surgery, identify where CRUK should focus future work, and to continue building on our Programme for Government and the mission set to Government to 'Bring tests, treatments and innovations to patients more quickly'.

As robotic surgery is an emerging, innovative treatment area, this project will involve researching the enablers and barriers to the adoption of robotic surgery in England, exploring where there are potential inequalities in access, developing a greater understanding of the policy landscape in this area, and identifying where CRUK could contribute a valuable cancer specific perspective. The project will help us develop our policy lines on robotic surgery and identify where policy change is needed to help support its adoption.

The role will involve:
**Research (desk-based, internal and external stakeholder engagement, and monitoring of the policy environment) Producing appropriate policy outputs for the project, adapted for differences audiences (e.g. internal policy scoping report, briefings senior managers)
**This project will help demonstrate your policy experience and skills to prospective employers, build your professional network within health policy, and make a lasting impact towards Cancer Research UK's influencing work on the adoption and impact of innovations within the NHS.

_Health policy election work (30% of the role) _

Building on our Programme for Government we are launching a campaign in the lead up to the next general election to ensure that cancer is a priority for all political parties. To support this work, you will work with members across the policy and public affairs teams to ensure that our latest Programme for Government policy products are fed into this campaign. This will include designing briefings and explainers for MPs and party officials and gaining an understanding of how to adapt policy documents for different audiences. This work will give you the opportunity to work on areas we first set out in the Programme for Government including cancer diagnostics and national leadership for cancer and clinical research.

As a team we also work reactively based on political announcements and the external context.

You may also provide support:
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Analysing new reports and writing summaries for internal audiences, including senior leadership
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Working reactively to analyse government announcements and providing support with any CRUK press comments
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Monitoring and tweeting from the CRUK_Policy twitter account
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Attending Parliament for events and policy monitoring.

_Key Responsibilities:
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- **Lead a project ex