Senior Scientific Advisor: NHS England Vacancy
Senior Scientific Advisor – NHS England
NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Main area – Senior Scientific Advisor
- Grade – NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract – Permanent
- Hours – Full time – 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref – 990-MED-19761-E
- Site – Wellington House, London or Wellington Place, Leeds
- Town – London/Leeds
- Salary – £91,342 – £105,337 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period – Yearly
- Closing – 16/02/2026 23:59
Job overview
The Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) provides clinical and professional advice and leadership in healthcare science across the health and care system, is head of profession for a workforce of over 56,000 working in healthcare science in the NHS, embracing more than 54 scientific specialisms. The Office of the CSO encourages better use of science to address our greatest health challenges and shape technological advances to help ensure that people are living happier and healthier lives.
The NHS healthcare science workforce use science and their technical skills to help prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. They are in a unique position as a scientific workforce, working as part of an integrated health system that is a world leader in transformational science such as genomics, to deliver this work. The team also work to develop the professional, clinical and system leadership capacity and capability of healthcare scientists, who are well placed to provide frontline scientific leadership and science-based intelligence for innovation, service planning and delivery.
By ensuring the NHS operates at the limits of science, the Office of the CSO can improve the integration of services, develop new ways of working for delivering care, give patients greater control of their own care and improve the NHS’s ability to undertake research and innovation, and adoption of new state of the art health technology.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Scientific Advisor, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Medical Directorate. The post holder(s) will work closely with the Chief Scientific Officer and Deputy CSO supporting, offering scientific advice, expertise and undertaking responsibilities as and when required.
The post holder(s) will be part of a broad leadership team, provide evidence-based advice and guidance to the NHS and wider healthcare and social system inclusive of science in health and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The individual will provide Healthcare science advice into the CSO office particularly as we finalise the HCS strategy and supporting the Chief Scientific Officer’s programme team and the whole programme of work.
The post holder will lead and advise on work relating to scientific, clinical leadership, diagnostics, accreditation and professional regulation, as well as other work areas as required.
Working in collaboration, the post holder will adopt an integrated approach with colleagues across the system, influencing and advising the system to improve quality and outcomes for patients and contribute to the embedding of innovation in healthcare.
Find all details about this vacancy and how to apply here: NHS England » Working for us
