Supply Resilience Officer

☞ Department of Health and Social Care

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: London

Category: Fashion / Lifestyle Social Work / Community Services Part-time

Industry: Government Public Administration

Job type: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £28,966 a year

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Reference number

142149

Salary

£28,966
National: £28,966 London: £32,792

Grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DHSC - Commercial and Life Sciences

Type of role

Policy

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of posts

2

Location

Leeds, London, Runcorn

About the job

Summary

The Medical Technology (MedTech) Directorate adopts a system-wide approach to ensure that the health and care system has a resilient supply chain of safe and high-quality products, gets value for money, embeds sustainability, drives innovation, and promotes UK interests in global markets. It also oversees the regulation of medical devices.

The UK spends approximately £8-10billion per annum on Medical Technology. MedTech encompasses the majority of equipment and consumables used by the NHS and care sectors. The pace of technological advancement is substantive and provides both opportunities and challenges to harness innovation, and adapt our regulatory, operational, commercial and clinical practices to keep up with and take advantage of the opportunities created.

Job description

Reporting to the Supply Resilience Manager, the role of the Supply Resilience Officer will entail supporting the development of supply resilience strategies for various categories of medical devices and clinical consumables to address identified vulnerabilities and strengthen response in the event of incidents or emergencies affecting continuity of supply.

The post holder will be required to work as part of a team with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to mitigate potential risks to supply but also act in a shortage management and response capacity where significant supply disruption events occur.

The ability to interact confidently and effectively within the Department across Government and more widely will be an important aspect of this role.

You will be expected to play a part in creating and maintaining an inclusive working environment, enabling individuals to fulfil their own potential and to make an effective contribution to Directorate and Departmental priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development of national supply resilience strategies for critical medical technologies in response to emerging threats to continuity of supply and vulnerabilities within supply chains.
  • Support engagement with relevant industry and health system stakeholders to inform strategy development and approaches to implementation.
  • Support the programme management, governance, reporting and assurance processes to enable the effective and timely production and implementation of national supply resilience strategies.
  • Undertake research to inform the assessment of risks, issues and horizon scanning activity to identify trends and emerging threats.
  • Contribute to the monitoring, analysis and review of the impact of national supply resilience strategies and the provision of accurate and timely reports to senior management.

Key role requirements

Essential

  • Ability to think strategically, maintain an open mind and to be able to see issues from the perspective of different parties.
  • Experience of researching and interpreting evidence and data and using this to inform the development of policy, guidance, action plans and decision making.
  • Experience of supporting a high-quality service, including producing briefings and responding to request and queries often within tight timescales.
  • Ability to forge productive relationships within teams and across other internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong communication skills, including written and verbal briefing.

Desirable

  • Awareness of how medical technologies are deployed across the Health and Social Care sector and the role they play in supporting the delivery of health and social care objectives and strategies.
  • Understanding of the commercial drivers for industry and the health and social care system
  • An understanding of public procurement and commissioning, in particular within the health and social care context.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Changing and Improving
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Benefits

  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension
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Deadline: 21-06-2024

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