Senior Registration Assessment Officer

Are you a registered pharmacist with a passion for education and assessment? Join our dynamic team as a Senior Registration Assessment Officer, where you will leverage your pharmacy expertise to quality assure and develop the national registration assessment. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of pharmacy practice, working collaboratively with a diverse group of stakeholders.

Closing date: 31 July 2024 (11.59pm)

Interview dates: August dates TBC. Interviews will be virtual.

Location: Home-based with office-based meetings as required

Hours: 35 hours per week, from 9.00 to 5.00, Monday to Friday

The Role

As a Senior Registration Assessment Officer, you will play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing the quality of our registration assessments. You will lead the development and maintenance of internal policies and procedures, manage the question bank, and provide project management support for the Board of Assessors and the Reasonable Adjustments Panel.

Flexible working and job share arrangements will be supported where appropriate.

This role is subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check as part of our pre-employment due diligence.

The successful applicant will:

• Develop registration assessment material and maintain up-to-date knowledge of pharmacy practice, providing coaching to question writers and standard setters as necessary.
• Project manage activities carried out by external contractors, anticipating risks and managing these effectively.
   
• Deputise and support the Professional Assessment Manager, making sure work is delivered on time and to a high quality.
• Be a registered pharmacist with broad UK pharmacist experience, preferably multi sector.
• Have an unwavering commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Benefits when joining our team

In return for their commitment and enthusiasm, employees can expect a rewarding and challenging work environment, good work-life balance and workload plus an excellent benefits package that includes:

• 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 5 days.
• A choice between two pension providers: NHS England pension scheme or Standard Life.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Career breaks and sabbaticals.
• Private medical insurance, life assurance, season ticket loan, bike loan and many more.

About the GPhC

We are a respected regulatory body that regulates pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacies in Great Britain. We work to assure and improve standards of care for people using pharmacy services.

Our organisation has a long-term vision and a desire for highly skilled and specialist staff. We are committed to providing workforce learning and development opportunities.

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have adopted a hybrid working approach which combines office and home working. Staff are predominantly home-based and office attendance depends on the nature of the role and the requirements of the team.

We are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture and are committed to holding ourselves to the same standards we expect of others.

Applying for this role

If you feel you have the required experience and skills and would like to join us, please apply via the 'Apply' button above

Please make sure you complete your supporting statement section, explaining how you meet each of the criteria for the role, and where you found out about this vacancy. Applications without a supporting statement will not be considered.

Please consult the knowledge and skills section of the job description document to help you prepare your application.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community

We are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and being inclusive in all our work as a health professions regulator.

As part of your application for this role, please complete our equal opportunities and diversity monitoring section. This is optional and you don't have to complete it; however it provides us with useful information for monitoring and reporting purposes and is strictly confidential. The information you provide on this form will not form part of any selection process and will not be shared with the selection panel.