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Salary:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a3118,000 to \u00a3135,000
\nLocation: <\/strong>London or Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, and at least 2 days in the office<\/p>\n

Roles and Responsibilities<\/h4>\n

Policy and Regulatory Strategy<\/p>\n

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  • Own HDRS’s policy and regulatory affairs strategy, aligned to its corporate strategy and longer-term vision.<\/li>\n
  • Identify policy and regulatory barriers to HDRS’s objectives and develop practical routes to address them.<\/li>\n
  • Monitor emerging developments across health, data, research, digital and AI policy and assess their implications for HDRS.<\/li>\n
  • Provide strategic advice to the CEO, Executive Team and Board on significant policy and regulatory issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \u00a0Confidential Patient Information and Health-Data Policy<\/h4>\n
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    • Act as HDRS’s senior subject-matter expert on the policy and regulatory framework governing access to and use of confidential patient information.<\/li>\n
    • 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<\/li>\n
    • 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.<\/li>\n
    • Translate complex legal and regulatory developments into clear strategic choices for HDRS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Wider Health, Data and AI Policy<\/h4>\n
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      • Lead HDRS’s policy thinking across health data, research and innovation, digital health and AI.<\/li>\n
      • 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.<\/li>\n
      • Work with strategy, service, technology and commercial colleagues to ensure policy considerations are embedded in major programmes and propositions.<\/li>\n
      • Build HDRS’s understanding of the implications of AI for health data, including opportunities, governance, public trust and regulatory requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Government and External Influencing<\/h4>\n
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        • 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.<\/li>\n
        • Develop relationships with professional, academic, patient and industry organisations and represent HDRS externally where appropriate.<\/li>\n
        • Lead HDRS’s engagement on significant policy consultations, reviews and regulatory reforms.<\/li>\n
        • Develop coalitions and partnerships around areas where changes in policy or regulation are required to enable HDRS’s strategy.<\/li>\n
        • Ensure external engagement is coordinated with HDRS’s wider strategy, communications and stakeholder activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Policy Function Leadership<\/h4>\n
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          • Establish and lead a small, high-performing Policy & Regulatory Affairs team, setting its priorities, ways of working and professional standards.<\/li>\n
          • Determine the appropriate balance of permanent expertise, secondees and specialist external support.<\/li>\n
          • Develop a small but expert team with capability across regulatory affairs, health\/data policy, AI policy and government\/external affairs.<\/li>\n
          • Create a proactive policy horizon-scanning and analysis capability.<\/li>\n
          • Commission and manage specialist legal, regulatory or policy advice where required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-346","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/hdrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}