The Candidate:
Are you a Health Economist looking for a new challenge with experience in assessing MedTech innovations?
Are you driven to succeed, do you have excellent communication skills with the ability to think strategically and work successfully within a team environment.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CHEATA team as a health economist and to help us support the MedTech Industry with NHS adoption and evidence. This is a fixed term contract for two years, closing date 9th March 2023.
What we are looking for:
- Educated to first degree level or have equivalent relevant experience, with specific expertise in health economics
- Evidence of having undertaken health economic modelling such as formal analytic models (including but not limited to Markov and decision tree analyses for cost utility, cost-consequence and cost benefit modelling) and budget impact assessment or other cost analysis models
- Evidence of having undertaken HTA activities
- The primary function of CHEATA is to support adoption of medical technology into the NHS. It is therefore essential that the successful candidate has a good understanding of the wider medical technology agenda in the NHS
Key responsibilities:
The key aspect of the role is to provide health economic modelling for CHEATA’s medtech clients, including budget impact, cost utility and other cost effectiveness modelling, as well as contributing to the creation of the overall device value proposition. In addition, the role also encompasses attendance at client meetings, support for grant submissions with academic and industrial partners, leading HTA submissions to organisations such as NICE and NHS Drug Tariff.
The role will also encompass support for projects within NUH (to support evidence-based procurement activities) and the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network.
The Company
CHEATA is based in Clinical Engineering at a large acute NHS Trust and supports medical technology innovators and manufacturers to gather the evidence needed for NHS adoption. CHEATA is a unique service that sits within the NHS and provides the MedTech industry with NHS insight and perspective on how to drive NHS adoption. A key part of the evidence base for medical technologies is the case for cost effectiveness as part of an overall device Value Proposition and this is a key service offering to CHEATA’s clients
Link: Job Advert (jobs.nhs.uk)