Job Overview

BMJ Knowledge Centre

We have an exciting opportunity for a freelance clinical informatics editor to join us and work within the health informatics team. Our clinical decision support (CDS) content, BMJ Best Practice, is increasingly used to drive healthcare AI applications as well as directly read by clinicians around the world. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a friendly and talented team ensuring editorial integrity of our CDS content as expressed in machine interpretable form. 

Responsibilities

• Editorial related review of our machine interpretable content to ensure the correct clinical scope has been covered and that it faithfully captures the clinical intent of the recommendation. Identify any potential patient safety issues associated with the tagging of content and its subsequent uses. 
• Assess the consistency with which we express similar clinical recommendations according to a defined editorial scope. Work with data analysts in the team to implement any needed analysis and subsequent checks in an automated way.
• Liaise with section editors when there is a query about the interpretation of statements in the content. If an underlying content change is agreed, coordinate the proposed changes with the machine interpretable content. 

Qualifications, Experience & Skill

Qualifications

• Essential: Medical, pharmacy or biomedical degree with experience of clinical practice in that field.

​Experience

• Essential: Experience devising, creating and updating clinical decision support information for a reputable scientific publisher.
• Essential: Experience of a range of CDS content sources to inform the clinical scope of what we address and what we link to from other resources.
• Desirable: Experience or demonstrable interest in health informatics and increasing machine interpretability of clinical content.

Skills

• Understand the scope, design and clinical application of CDS content in order to undertake the editorial quality assurance of its machine interpretation representation.
• Able to make judgements on priority of clinical statements in our CDS content to inform scope of what we provide as machine interpretable content
• Understand the flow evidence that has been used to justify clinical statements in CDS content in order to understand the background and interpretation of those statements.
• Strong editorial instincts, meticulous attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines

The role will be largely home-based with occasional opportunities to come to our central London office. For the role, you will need to be available to work on a freelance basis for at least 2 (and ideally up to 5) days per week. Please clearly state in your application how many days you available to work.

Why work for us

Help us create a healthier world. We are a global healthcare knowledge provider. We publish The BMJ, one of the world’s most impactful medical journals and over 70 influential speciality journals. We offer digital tools to help health professionals worldwide tackle critical healthcare challenges. Find out more about us here.

Flexible Work and Workplace Perks

• Flexible work available to all employees: Remote first; Core hours; 9-day fortnight

• Discounted onsite gym and fitness classes 

Generous benefits

• Generous double-matching employer pension contribution, up to 12%

• Discounted dental and travel insurance

• Seven x salary life assurance cover and a generous income protection package

• Discounted gym membership, cycle-to-work and season ticket loan

• Discounts for retail and leisure products through yourReward 

Work-life balance and wellbeing

• Twenty-five days holiday + bank holidays + a BMJ Day off.

• Additional holiday through long service; buy up to 5 additional days 

• Leave for moving house, volunteering or getting married

• Concierge service Seniorcare by Lottie

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion are not buzzwords to us, but fundamental company priorities

• We believe that a diverse workforce brings unique strengths and insights, enabling us to better serve our customers and drive positive change in our industry. 

• If you are from an under-represented or historically marginalised community, we are particularly interested in hearing from you. 

• Join our employee-led networks focusing on Gender, Race and Cultural Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Mental Health and Well-being, Parents and Carers and Age.

• Disability Confident Committed employer

Learning & Development

• Personal development plan 

• Mentoring scheme

• Career Coaching

• Opportunities to pursue professional development