Senior Safety Assessor
Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)
| Location: | Addlestone |
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| Salary: | £59,900 pro rata if applicable |
| Hours: | Full Time, Part Time |
| Contract Type: | Permanent |
| Placed On: | 28th January 2025 |
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| Closes: | 24th February 2025 |
| Job Ref: | 383423 |
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and is responsible for ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of veterinary medicines in the UK.
We have a vacancy for a Senior Safety Assessor
This exciting and interesting job puts you at the heart of authorising veterinary medicines in the UK. You will be a senior assessor within the Human and Environmental Safety Team, which is part of the VMD’s Authorisations Division.
Assessment of data relating to human risk assessments being the primary focus, with secondary requirements being the assessment of environmental safety.
You would also have the opportunity to provide training to external parties, including third country assessors, which would include the requirement to travel abroad on occasion.
Experience
You must have robust experience of summarising toxicology data from a variety of sources, of varying quality, and draw them together in a concise way, in order to come to a regulatory decision, or to make the case for a particular regulatory decision.
We’re looking for you to have experience of:
- Pharmaceutical/Chemical toxicological risk assessment.
- Coaching and/or mentoring others in scientific and/or regulatory areas, including peer review of scientific reports.
- Presenting your risk assessments to peers for review, preferably as part of a committee.
- Presenting your findings to non-scientific stakeholders.
We’re looking for someone that:
- Works well as part of a team.
- Is able to prioritise their work to maximise efficiency.
- Is proficient in the use of Microsoft Office 365 packages, particularly Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and can learn in-house packages quickly.
Qualifications
You must have at least one of the following qualification(s):
* An undergraduate degree in a relevant life science.
* A postgraduate degree in a relevant subject (but this requirement could be waived if your work experience is relevant and extensive)
The closing date for applications is 24th February 2025.
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate is an Equal Opportunity employer.
No Recruitment Agency, Newspaper or Publication calls please.
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