Job Overview

The British Medical Association (BMA) is the professional association and trade union for doctors and medical students in the UK. It has a prominent and influential position at the very heart of the current debate over the future of healthcare provision. The BMA speaks for doctors at all stages of their careers and is a leading voice on a wide range of professional and political issues affecting medicine and health.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Policy Adviser (Research) to join our Healthcare Delivery team within our Public Health and Healthcare Policy Function.

This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in shaping the BMA’s high-profile policy work on a broad range of issues relating to the delivery of healthcare in the UK.

Your role will be to drive forward our programme of policy work and research, developing proposals that will help us influence the debate around key issues that affect UK health services.  

You will provide expert policy advice and guidance to a variety of audiences including senior staff, committees, chief officers and members, as well as producing briefings, guidance and other practical support materials and representing the BMA at external events as required.

The Public Health and Healthcare Function sits within the BMA’s Communications and Policy Directorate. The team’s remit spans a range of topics including:

• post-pandemic recovery and service delivery
• the development of new integrated models of care, workforce and digital transformation
• dealing with current and future health system challenges. 

You will have experience of:

• evidence-based policy development (ideally in a health or health-related context)
• excellent writing skills
• excellent research and data analysis skills 
• ability to confidently analyse and help solve policy problems
• confidence to build influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Why work for us?

As a BMA employee, you`ll receive:

• Generous annual leave provision, plus 1 company day and public holidays
• Double matching pension contributions up to 12% of salary
• Season ticket loan (up to £10,000) after completion of probationary period
• Additional flexible benefits.

You may be working remotely initially, but we`ll provide all the support you need. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply through our website. For any queries please email recruitment@bma.org.uk

Diversity & Inclusion Monitoring:
We need your support to make sure our staff come from a variety of backgrounds so we especially welcome applications from disadvantaged communities. Even if you`re not selected, it would be really helpful if you could complete the diversity & inclusion data when you apply for this role, because we can make sure we are encouraging a diverse mixture of candidates to apply. Thank you very much.