Job summary
- Main area
- Familial Breast Cancer professional member
- Grade
- Professional member
- Contract
- Voluntary: 18 months (topic specific vacancy)
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 907-CM-7289832
- Employer
- NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Virtual
- Town
- Virtual
- Salary
- £1 - £300 See supporting info & link for details of reimbursement policy
- Salary period
- Session by session
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Familial Breast Cancer Committee Professional member
Professional member
Job overview
NICE is seeking to appoint guideline committee members for a short update of its Familial breast cancer: classification, care and managing breast cancer and related risks in people with a family history of breast cancer guideline in relation to initial assessment and genetic testing.
We are looking for the following:
• 1 x Specialist Genetic Counsellor
• 1 x Medical or Clinical Oncologist
Further details can be found in the supporting documentation.
Closing date: Midnight on 13 July 2025.
If you have an access requirement that prevents you from applying online, please contact [email protected] and we can provide MS word versions of the forms to complete.
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.
Raise any concerns about process or details in the draft guidance with the committee, and try to resolve these issues within the committee, with support from the guidance developer or the NICE guidance project team.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.
Ensure strict adherence to NICE’s Principles and equality policy.
Read and adhere to NICE’s policies on hospitality, declarations of interests and travel and subsistence.
Working for our organisation
Members:
The position of committee member is unpaid.
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.
Other expenses:
NICE recognises that in some circumstances individuals will need to arrange for carers or support workers 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.
Time commitment:
Committee members are expected to attend 8-10 half and day-long virtual committee meetings.
Committee members will have to spend time reading substantial committee documents and helping to produce consultation documents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
ROLE DESCRIPTION
Summary
Committee members are required to work in collaboration with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) staff, the guideline Chair over a period of approximately 18 months to update the familial breast cancer: classification, care and managing breast cancer and related risks in people with a family history of breast cancer guideline by:
supporting the development of the scope
supporting the development of review protocols
providing expert knowledge and acting as a source of clinical advice to the guideline Chair and NICE staff in the identification and review of evidence.
drafting recommendations based on the evidence presented by NICE staff and amending them in light of stakeholder comments after consultation.
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. 17
Responsibilities
Participate in NICE guideline induction and development training as required.
Attend all guideline committee meetings.
Work with other members and chair of the Committee and NICE Development Team to identify key issues to be covered by the update during the scoping process.
Work with the NICE Development Team to agree the review questions and parameters which will inform the development of the guideline update.
Prepare for committee meetings by reading, reviewing and commenting on all relevant papers and communicating by email between meetings.
Participate in Committee discussions, deliberations and decision making using own specialist knowledge whilst respecting input from non-specialists and lay persons.
Work with the other members and chair of the Committee and NICE Development Team to achieve consensus in relation to the evidence base, provide appropriate interpretations and formulation of concise action-orientated recommendations.
Assist in quality assuring the guidelines and recommendations before they are approved internally by NICE prior to consultation and final publication. This includes advising and responding to stakeholder comment on the draft updated recommendations.
Act in accordance with the principles of the NICE Code of Conduct, NICE guideline processes, policies and manuals, including the NICE equalities scheme and action plan.
Work with the other members and chair of the Committee and NICE Development Team to ensure deadlines and timetables are met.
Be a champion for the guidelines after publication and undertake activities to promote endorsement of the guideline and implementation if needed.
Conditions
Appointment will be for the development of the guideline, approximately 18 months.
The time commitment will be for approximately 8-10 full/half day committee meetings, plus associated preparation work for Committee meetings. In addition, members may be required to be accessible and able to respond to urgent queries promptly at times.
The Committee will be supported by the permanent staff of the NICE Development Team, who will be responsible for the overall project management, organising Committee meetings, and preparation and presentation of the evidence at Committee meetings.
Meetings will be held virtually, via video conferencing software, but there may be the opportunity for occasional hybrid face to face/ virtual meetings if desired by the committee or NICE Development Team.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Criteria
Ability to contribute to the work of the advisory body:
Essential:
Experience in health care as a practicing specialist genetic counsellor or as a medical or clinical oncologist working with people who have a family history of breast cancer and who are being assessed or treated for heritable mutations associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
Active registration with the appropriate professional body
A licence to practise (if applicable)
An understanding of the social, political, economic and professional influences on NICE
Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets:
Essential:
Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications.
Nature of the motivation underpinning the application:
Essential:
Clearly and persuasively stated reasoning for making an application.
Equality and diversity:
Essential:
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.
Person specification
Ability to contribute to the work of the committee
Essential criteria
- Experience in health care as a practicing specialist genetic counsellor or as a medical or clinical oncologist working with people who have a family history of breast cancer and who are being assessed or treated for heritable mutations associated with an increased risk of breast cancer
- Active registration with the appropriate professional body
- A licence to practise
- An understanding of the social, political, economic and professional influences on NICE
Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets
Essential criteria
- Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications.
Nature of the motivation underpinning the application
Essential criteria
- Clearly and persuasively stated reasoning for making an application.
Equality and diversity
Essential criteria
- 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.
Other
Essential criteria
- Please state which post you are applying for.
Eligibility – these are listed as 'essential criteria' as you need to answer all questions
Essential criteria
- 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?
- 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 had an 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?
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Danielle Conroy
- Job title
- Project Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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