- Experience of relationship building within the life sciences or medical sectors.
- Experience Career experience of the civil service, regulatory
- policy, or other organisations, which give understanding of working in public sector.
- Substantial experience of relationship building within the life sciences or medical sectors.
- Seeing the Big Picture - Ensure plans and activities in your area of work reflect wider strategic priorities and communicate effectively with senior leaders to influence future strategies.
- Communicating and Influencing - Communicate clearly, honestly, and enthusiastically with others to build trust. Explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand considering peoples individual needs. Deliver difficult messages with clarity and sensitivity, being persuasive when required.
- Working Together - Actively build and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on shared objectives.
- Leadership - Seek out shared interests beyond own area of responsibility, understanding the extent of the impact actions have on the organisation. Inspire and motivate teams to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role.
- Changing and Improving - Create an environment where people feel safe to challenge and know their voice will be heard. Make changes which add value and clearly articulate how changes will benefit the business.
- Developing Self and Others - Identify areas individuals and teams need to develop to achieve future objectives. Support colleagues to take responsibility for their own learning and development.
- Career experience of the civil service, regulatory policy, or other organisations, which give understanding of working in public sector
Mental Health Mission Regulatory and Reimbursement Leader - London, United Kingdom - Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Description
Job summary
We are currently looking for a MentalHealth Mission Regulatory and Reimbursement Leader to join our NationalPartnerships team within the Partnerships group.
These are full-time opportunities, on a fixed term basis until 30 January 2028 . Parttime working will also be considered for this role. The role will be based in10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU. Please be aware that thisrole can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.
Government departments and agencies are working towardsimplementing a minimum 60% attendance in office sites.
We are currently implementing a flexible, hybrid way of working,with a minimum of 4 days per month working on site to enable the collaborationand contact with partners and stakeholders needed to deliver MHRA business.Attendance on site is driven by business needs so depending on the nature ofthe role, this can flex up to 8 days a month, with the remainder of time workedeither remotely or in the office. Some roles will need to be on site moreregularly.
Main duties of the job
This is a strategic role in a £43m NIHR-funded Mental Health Mission programme whose ambition is to provide a sustainable research and regulation-ready environment in the UK that can support the pace and scale of mental health research needed to address patient post holder will be the regulatory lead on the Missions operational team and work with partners,supported by the expertise in the Partnerships Group and wider Agency,to accelerate the development of new regulatory and evaluation approaches that facilitate timely approval and uptake of safe and effective innovative medicines and medical devices in the Mental Health space, including those based on Artificial Intelligence.
About us
Who are we?
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.
The Partnerships Group takes responsibility for the development of the MHRAs national and international partnerships and for developing a new underpinning legal regime for medicines and medical devices.
The Group focuses on areas which are of central importance to the Agencys future, contributing to the NHS and priority public health objectives; delivering the Governments Life Sciences Vision and Innovation Strategy; and ensuring continued global leadership through the development of new national and international partnerships. These, and the other transformational regulatory proposals which are being developed across the Agency, will require legislation to be updated, and potentially, to be reformed into a new legal regime.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
-Provide regulatory leadership on the Mental Health Missions operational team, working with Agency partners to accelerate the development of new regulatory and evaluationapproaches.
-Convene discussions with stakeholders acrossthe system including Mental Health medical product innovators and the regulatorand evaluator community to develop relationships, mutual understanding, andcommunication structures in pursuit of elaborating future regulatory andevaluation approaches.
-LeverageMHRAs existing cross system networks and strong relationships with othernational and international regulators, evaluation agencies and procurementcommissioners
-Collaborate with Agency scientific research andregulatory medical products experts, including MHRAs Software as aMedical Device team and those involved in otherLife Science Vision Missions, enabling future approaches to be aligned acrossthe priority missions.
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