Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessor - Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic

We are currently looking for a Benefit Risk Evaluation Assessor to join our Benefit/Risk Evaluation Team II Function within the Safety & Surveillance group. This is a full-time opportunity, on a permanent basis. The role will be based in 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU. Government departments and agencies are working towards implementing a minimum 60% attendance in office sites. We are currently implementing a flexible, hybrid way of working, with a minimum of 8 days per month working on site to enable the collaboration and contact with partners and stakeholders needed to deliver MHRA business. Attendance on site is driven by business needs so depending on the nature of the role, this can flex up to 12 days a month, with the remainder of time worked either remotely or in the office. Some roles will need to be on site more regularly. Who are we? The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research. The Safety and Surveillance Group brings together into a single integrated structure devices and medicines safety expertise with enforcement capabilities. These functions will be supported by our data and evidence generating capabilities complementing our signal generating capabilities produced via the new Safety Connect System. Medicines and devices have traditionally been regulated separately largely driven by different regulatory processes and ways of working. As science and technology drives increasing understanding of disease, it is also opening new opportunities for treatments with both functions. Product profiles are changing, becoming ever more complex and the boundaries between functions are blurring. These changes provide a unique opportunity to bring functional capabilities together to better address the regulatory challenges of the future. Against this background and the drive to improve treatment availability for patients, safety remains at the heart of our decision making. As such the core objective of the Safety & Surveillance Group is to protect the public from risks associated with medicines and medical devices by: Ensuring a world class, comprehensive vigilance system that can promptly detect and monitor signals across the product life cycle Evaluating the benefit risk of signals and developing effective and measurable risk mitigation measures Deploying innovative interventions to reduce the criminal threat Exploiting data and embracing new technologies to develop the evidence to support our actions and understand their impact The Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic Benefit Risk Evaluation team monitors the safety of medicines and medical devices across these therapy areas. This includes a large focus on medical devices used for orthopaedics such as hip and knee joint replacements, cosmetic and plastic devices such as breast implants and wound care products used in the trauma context. The team cover medicines such as botulinum toxin used for some cosmetic purposes, musculoskeletal gene therapy and creams and ointments used in wound care. This role is expected to work across both medicine and medical device products and provides an exciting range of opportunity for benefit risk evaluation work and professional development. What’s the role? The core purpose of this role is to provide a robust benefit risk assessment of potential safety signals using data from a range of sources and technical, scientific, clinical and regulatory knowledge and/or practical experience. Benefit risk assessors are responsible for engaging with a range of stakeholders including patients and the public to make timely and robust benefit-risk assessments and recommend safety actions and risk mitigations that are outcome focused. Benefit/risk assessors are flexible according to business needs and work across therapeutic teams and the wider agency and the health and social care system to respond promptly to potential safety issues and protect patient safety. All benefit risk roles require working flexibly to perform and contribute to benefit risk assessments across all medical products as required. Key responsibilities: Assessment of safety data, including conducting assessments, making evidence-based recommendations, preparing and presenting assessments Be proactive in engaging with all stakeholders including patients and the public, health care professionals and companies to complete benefit risk evaluation assessments Contribute to and lead projects across the product life cycle to ensure compliance with regulations and contribute to assessing the impact of regulatory decisions on protecting patients and ensuring public health Commitment to learning and development of additional skills to enhance critical appraisal abilities for more complex assessment work, including sharing knowledge Who are we looking for? Our successful candidate will have: The ability to make confident and effective decisions, taking the appropriate level of ownership and holding self accountable for decisions, able to ask for help when needed. Be solution focused. Proven understanding of risk management principles to reduce harm and promote effective use of medical products and relevant technical knowledge and experience of a medicines and/or medical devices. Proven experience of managing complex projects to agreed milestones and managing conflicting priorities Previous relevant experience such as healthcare, medical device or medicinal product industry or regulatory environment Good interpersonal skills to facilitate team-working and co-operating with colleagues from different disciplines. Person Specification: Method of assessment: A=Application, I=Interview Behaviour Criteria: Communicating and Influencing (A, I) Making Effective Decisions (A, I) Experience Criteria: Proven understanding of risk management principles to reduce harm and promote effective use of medical products. Technical knowledge and/or practical experience of a range of medical devices and/or medicines (A, I) Proven experience of managing complex projects to agreed milestones and managing conflicting priorities (A, I) Proven experience in conducting benefit risk evaluations of medical devices and or medicines is highly advantageous (A, I) Proven experience in the Musculoskeletal, Trauma and Cosmetic therapeutic areas is highly advantageous. (A, I) Technical Criteria: Degree or equivalent qualification in a related discipline (such as physical and/or biological sciences, pharmacy, engineering or a relevant healthcare qualification) (A) Previous relevant experience such as healthcare, medical device or medicinal product industry or regulatory environment. (A, I) Strengths Criteria: Analytical (I) Adaptable (I) Networker (I) If you would like to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, please read our Job Description and Person Specification! Please note: The job description may not open in some internet browsers. Please use Chrome or Microsoft Edge. If you have any issue viewing the job description, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk The selection process: We use the Civil Service Success Profiles to assess our candidates, find out more here. Online application form, including questions based on the Behaviour, Experience and Technical Success Profiles. Please ensure all application questions are completed in full; your application may not be considered if any responses are left blank. Our applications are CV blind, and our Hiring Managers will not be able to access your CV when reviewing your application. Interview, which can include questions based on the Behaviour, Experience, Technical and Strengths Success Profiles. In the instance that we receive a high number of applications, we will hold an initial sift based on the lead criteria of:Proven understanding of risk management principles to reduce harm and promote effective use of medical products. Technical knowledge and/or practical experience of a range of medical devices and/or medicines Applicants are assessed on whether they meet any mandatory requirements as well as the necessary skills and experience for the role. Applications are scored based on the competency-based answers provided- ensure you have read these thoroughly and allow sufficient time. You can view the competencies for this role in the job description. Use of AI in Job Applications Applicants must ensure that anything submitted is factually accurate and truthful. Plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. If you require any disability related adjustments at any point during the process, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk as soon as possible. Closing date: 01 December 2025 Shortlisting date: 08 December 2025 Interview date: w/c 15 December 2025 Candidates will be contacted within a week of the sift and the interviews completed to inform them of the outcome. If you need assistance applying for this role or have any other questions, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here. Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Certain roles within the MHRA will require post holders to have vaccinations, and in some circumstances, routine health surveillance. These roles include: Laboratory-based roles working directly with known pathogens Maintenance roles, particularly those required to work in laboratory settings Roles that involve visiting other establishments where vaccination is required Roles required to travel overseas where specific vaccination may be required. Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Any move to the MHRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here. Successful candidates may be subject to annual Occupational Health reviews dependent on role requirements. If you have any queries, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should firstly contact Florentina Oyelami, Head of Talent Acquisition, Florentina.Oyelami@mhra.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk info@csc.gov.uk Civil Service Commission Room G/8 1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ