Job Overview

We are seeking freelance medical editors for an exciting opportunity to work as part of a friendly and talented team, producing evidence-based clinical content for BMJ Best Practice, BMJ Group’s popular online clinical decision support tool for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It is widely used in the NHS as well as by doctors in many other countries.

Key tasks:

• Our team is responsible for ensuring the clinical content across more than 1000 medical conditions remains practical, up to date and easily digestible for our target audience.

• This opportunity is to work on BMJ Best Practice’s unique Comorbidities Manager, which provides guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition alongside their pre-existing comorbidities.

• You will be working in an established editorial process and team creating and updating content for the Comorbidities Manager; using evidence to inform the content, and liaising with external experts to ensure the content is clear, accurate and practical for users

Skills, experience and qualifications:

• A medical or biomedical degree is essential. 

• Clinical experience in internal medicine, care of older people, emergency medicine, or general practice will be an advantage as the ability to anticipate clinical scenarios and implications due to comorbid conditions, including frailty, is key. 

• Experience in planning, writing and editing complex medical content and liaising with external clinical experts will be an advantage. 

• You will need strong editorial instincts, meticulous attention to detail and a confident and organised approach, as well as a proven ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines. 

• Other vital skills are the ability to critically appraise evidence developments and to extract the key take-home messages from complex medical literature. 

You might be an established freelance medical editor with proven experience of producing practice-changing clinical content, or you could be a clinician who has some writing or editing experience and a hunger to get involved in a freelance medical publishing role. 

The role will be largely home-based with occasional opportunities to come to our central London office. You will need to be available to work on a freelance basis for 3-5 days per week, please state your availability in your application.

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter through the online system.