Medical Advisor, Policy & Evidence

Job Summary by the Career Balance Team:

Vitality, the multi award-winning UK insurance brand, is seeking a healthcare professional to join their Medical Affairs team. The role involves leading evidence-based decision making and funding, as well as providing expert support on products, treatment trends, and regulatory changes. The successful candidate will need a healthcare or life sciences qualification, a strong understanding of clinical research and evidence, and excellent communication skills. Vitality offers a range of benefits, including bonus schemes, a pension, health insurance, and life assurance. They are committed to diversity and inclusion and have a sustainable approach to business.

Job Description:About The Role
Team –Medical Affairs
Working Pattern – Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London or Bournemouth Office. Full time hours.
Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Healthcare or Life Sciences qualification
• Understanding and critiquing clinical research and evidence 
• Excellent communicator (written & verbal)

What this role is all about:
Are you a clinician looking to use your skills in a different way? We have a fantastic opportunity for a healthcare professional to join us here at Vitality.  Are you a junior or specialist doctor, with a GP, oncology or broad medical background? Or a clinical nurse specialist with significant research experience?  Or perhaps you’re a candidate with strong experience in understanding and critiquing clinical research and evidence? Making decisions within policy frameworks, and communicating these to wider stakeholders?
The role will aid the Medical Director and wider Medical Affairs team to lead and champion evidence-based decision making and funding. To data-drive recommendations, across Vitality Health, ensuring that our members, intermediaries and the wider business has access to high quality guidance.

We are looking for someone responsible for balancing how we continue to provide access to high-quality, innovative care with the protection and control of the claims fund. The unifying theme within the role is the ability to facilitate the combined evaluation of up-to-date evidence appraisal (which the post holder will undertake).  Medical information provided by members and providers, and insurance policy terms.

Key Actions

• To lead and provide expert support relating to products, treatment trends, regulatory changes and scientific activities across a broad range of therapeutic areas. To include oncology, for internal and external stakeholders
• Lead the development of new policy, being responsible for horizon scanning, understanding emerging therapies and their potential impact to claims fund. As well as developing and maintaining direct contact with external experts to gather insights and input on treatments
• Be accountable for understanding and regularly updating clinical guidance across a variety of conditions/disease areas, in line with evolving regulatory or environmental trends
• Act as a subject matter expert to support our wider claims teams and represent Vitality in provider discussions
• Identify opportunities and gaps within current processes/care pathways, and lead strategic initiatives aligned to delivering better value and health outcomes for our members. To include leading the delivery (in parts) of disease area specific strategies, e.g. cancer, mental health, musculoskeletal
• Identify, analyse, recommend and implement changes to processes and procedures where these may have or cause a risk to the claims fund. To include identifying areas of low evidence care, updating stances and underwriting guidelines and implementing these across the relevant business areas
• Collaborate with Compliance, Risk and QA departments to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements
• Review, obtain and provide medical, clinical and scientific input on content across the business including, but not limited to marketing and promotional activities
• Guiding with a customer-focused mindset, support the delivery of new technology implementation and automation initiatives within claims, underwriting, and other business areas as required
• Lead continuous learning and development initiatives across the team, including calibration meetings and lunch & learn sessions
• Prepare and support delivery of subject specific clinical updates and training in areas of claims, underwriting, and other business areas as required
• Contribute to the publication of Vitality data and/or thought leadership to promote clinical excellence and activities

Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:

• You will need to hold a healthcare or life sciences qualification – or very strong work experience in the absence of this. The most critical part of the role is understanding and critiquing clinical research and evidence. Making choices within policy frameworks, and communicating these to wider stakeholders
• You will have had exposure working in, or a strong understanding of one or more of healthcare, public health, clinical research, evidence synthesis medical/healthcare policy; or the pharmaceutical sector
• Candidates must be excellent communicators (written and verbal), and be able to influence choices within the team and across the wider business
• You will need to be able to work with ambiguity, understand critical appraisal inside and out. Have strong project and time management, comfortably manage multiple projects/deliverables at any one time, and excel working in a rapidly changing landscape

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

Who We Are
At Vitality, everything we do is driven by our core purpose. To make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives through our market-leading health and life insurance and the Vitality Programme. We empower our members to take control of their wellness and develop long-term healthy habits.

Diversity & Inclusion
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

About The Company
Vitality is a multi award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
Apart from offering some of the best cover out there, we help people take control of their health. We also help them get healthier, by giving them great rewards when they do healthy things.
As a brand with a challenger mindset, anyone who can show us a better way to do things is someone we want to work with. So when you join us, expect a positive environment and plenty of opportunities to grow your career. You’ll also have some brilliant teammates to support you and a dynamic work schedule to build your skills.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Hybrid and flexible working is also a key part of our organisational setup. So there’s no need to ask. Let’s talk about it at interview stage, so we can make your role work for your lifestyle. #Li-Hybrid
Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.
 
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.Location: South East, London