Salary: £118,000 to £135,000
Location: London or Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, and at least 2 days in the office
Roles and Responsibilities
Policy and Regulatory Strategy
- Own HDRS’s policy and regulatory affairs strategy, aligned to its corporate strategy and longer-term vision.
- Identify policy and regulatory barriers to HDRS’s objectives and develop practical routes to address them.
- Monitor emerging developments across health, data, research, digital and AI policy and assess their implications for HDRS.
- Provide strategic advice to the CEO, Executive Team and Board on significant policy and regulatory issues.
Confidential Patient Information and Health-Data Policy
- Act as HDRS’s senior subject-matter expert on the policy and regulatory framework governing access to and use of confidential patient information.
- Develop HDRS’s position on issues including confidentiality, lawful bases for processing, statutory information-sharing powers, research approvals, data access permissions and relevant governance frameworks, bringing together technical and legal expertise across the organisation
- Lead engagement with DHSC and relevant regulators and public bodies on reforms affecting the use of health and care data for research, innovation and service improvement.
- Translate complex legal and regulatory developments into clear strategic choices for HDRS.
Wider Health, Data and AI Policy
- Lead HDRS’s policy thinking across health data, research and innovation, digital health and AI.
- Develop policy positions and strategic options on emerging issues where HDRS’s role is likely to be affected or where it can contribute to policy development.
- Work with strategy, service, technology and commercial colleagues to ensure policy considerations are embedded in major programmes and propositions.
- Build HDRS’s understanding of the implications of AI for health data, including opportunities, governance, public trust and regulatory requirements.
Government and External Influencing
- Build trusted senior relationships across Department of Health & Social Care, Department of Science, Innovation & Technology and other government departments, regulators, NHS organisations, devolved administrations and relevant public bodies.
- Develop relationships with professional, academic, patient and industry organisations and represent HDRS externally where appropriate.
- Lead HDRS’s engagement on significant policy consultations, reviews and regulatory reforms.
- Develop coalitions and partnerships around areas where changes in policy or regulation are required to enable HDRS’s strategy.
- Ensure external engagement is coordinated with HDRS’s wider strategy, communications and stakeholder activity.
Policy Function Leadership
- Establish and lead a small, high-performing Policy & Regulatory Affairs team, setting its priorities, ways of working and professional standards.
- Determine the appropriate balance of permanent expertise, secondees and specialist external support.
- Develop a small but expert team with capability across regulatory affairs, health/data policy, AI policy and government/external affairs.
- Create a proactive policy horizon-scanning and analysis capability.
- Commission and manage specialist legal, regulatory or policy advice where required.