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June 05, 2007
Health Economist: National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (NCC-WCH)
Location: London, England, UK
Closing date: 5 June 2007
Salary UCL band 8 (up to £42,791) + London Weighting (currently £2,497 p.a.)
The National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health (NCC-WCH) is looking to appoint an experienced health economist to join our multi-disciplinary, enthusiastic and friendly health services research team. This is a full-time, permanent position within the NCC-WCH. The salary is commensurate with the University College UCL lecturer A salary scale Band 8, with a yearly increment and yearly cost of living uplift in line with UCL.
The team includes economists, epidemiologists, clinicians, systematic reviewers and medical information specialists. Additional funding has led to the recent growth of our in house team of economists and we now have four health economists to support our guideline technical teams and are looking to expand the team further.
The Centre is funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce evidence-based clinical guidelines for the National Health Service (NHS). We work with guideline development groups (GDGs), whose membership include health care professionals and lay representatives, and an extensive range of stakeholders. The Centre is based at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) with additional workspace available at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Health Economist: The main duties of a Health Economist are to provide expert health economic guidance to guideline development groups on specific topics in women and children’s health by reviewing the existing economic evidence on a topic, undertaking cost-effectiveness modelling and advising the groups on all aspects of health economics they need to consider when making recommendations for clinical practice. The Health Economist is responsible for writing and editing all economic aspects of a specific guideline, and is encouraged to write up new economic evaluations undertaken for a guideline for wider dissemination in the academic literature. The NCC-WCH has strong links with academic and public health institutions and would welcome applications from health economic researchers from all sectors. Secondments (minimum 12 months) would also be considered for excellent candidates.
Applicants should have a good grounding in economics with a postgraduate qualification in health economics or health services research, and a minimum of 12 months research experience. Applicants should be up to date with research methods of economic evaluation and should be familiar with statistics, epidemiology and public health. Experience of literature searching, synthesising research evidence, analysing quantitative data, economic modelling and writing reports and/or research papers is highly desirable. Training, personal development and the pursuit of research interests are encouraged within the Centre.
Our current work programme includes guidelines on:
- Intrapartum care
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Induction of labour (update)
- Diarrhoea and vomiting in children
- Antenatal care (update)
- Urinary tract infection in children
- Feverish illness in children
- Atopic eczema in children
- Maternal and child nutrition
- Identification of abuse in children
More information about the Centre can be found at http://www.ncc-wch.org.uk/. For an Job descriptions, person specifications and application forms can be downloaded from http://www.rcog.org.uk/, for a paper copy contact Charlotte Pihlqvist on 020 7772 6386, email cpihlqvist@rcog.org.uk, or write to Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27 Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RG, UK.
Deadline for applications: 5.30pm Tuesday 5 June 2007.
