Head Of Optometric Advice

Head Of Optometric Advice

Part Time 14 to 21 hours per week - 18 Months FTC

Location: One Canada Square, London

Department: Strategy

Salary: £61,928 to £73,250 pro rata

Hours: 14 hours min - 21 hours max

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Role Purpose

To ensure our policy development and decision making on clinical and professional matters is informed by independent expert advice, provide assurance on these matters within GOC and represent GOC on these matters externally.

The postholder will not have a role in making individual regulatory decisions (e.g. on fitness to practice cases) but their role will include providing assurance that we have the right quality of clinical and professional input into those decisions.

This is a new part-time role to be located within the Regulatory Strategy Directorate, but which will provide support and deliver impact across the organisation.

Key Accountabilities

• Optical professional leadership within the GOC - be the senior optical professional within the GOC staff team, supporting all registrant colleagues, including our team of optometric advisors, education visitor panellists, and CPD chairs and deputy chairs
• Insight - provide intelligence on emerging or topical issues and ensure all GOC's work is informed by relevant insight and good quality professional advice and expertise, across our range of functions including education and CPD, professional standards, fitness to practise and policy development
• Independence - act independently to ensure GOC's decisions deliver public protection while maintaining credibility with professional stakeholders
• Advisory - attend Council and Senior Management Team meetings in an advisory capacity where clinical and professional matters are discussed supporting colleagues to make informed decisions
• Media and public presence - act as the lead authoritative external spokesperson for the GOC on clinical and professional matters and manage external stakeholder relationships with senior clinical colleagues within and outside the eye care sector.

Skills/Experience/Qualifications

• A current GOC registrant with the depth and breadth of experience and credibility to advise across the full range of clinical and professional matters that we work on
• Awareness of good regulatory practice and management of risk
• Proven track record in clinical governance or policy development

Sine this is a part-time role (max 0.6FTE), it is possible the postholder will hold other positions in the sector. Consistent with our Management of Interest policy, to manage conflicts of interest, it would not be appropriate for the postholder to also hold a role which involves representing the interests of the professionals or businesses we regulate. All professional and other interests will be managed in accordance with our Management of Interest policy.

Closing date for this role is 04 March :59pm, please note we reserve the right to close this role early dependent on number of applications.

Please note that your application will only be considered if it includes both CV and a cover letter. The cover letter should be no longer than 2 A4 pages and must demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria of this role.