Medical Safety & Governance Placement

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Medical Safety & Governance Placement

Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams
• Communication (written & verbal)
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Networking
• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students. You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee and will receive access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare, and well-being programs.

The Roles

This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.

Role 1 – Medical Governance and Internal Operations

• Degree requirements: any subject

Overview of the Department

The Medical Governance and Operations Team (MGO) operates in service of Global Medical (GM) in the areas of governance, operations, and capability building to support GM to perform at their best.  Through a robust governance framework, strong operational and capability building support, and clear performance metrics, MGO enables GM to focus, perform, and develop to deliver medical excellence today and in the future. 

Key Placement Activities

• Reviewing onboarding process and resources for medical employees, working with the asset owners to ensure a timely update of their resources.
• Organising global training virtual events, including preparation of learning objectives, internal communications to promote the event, and development and delivery of post training assets.
• Maintaining and communicating KPIs to track execution of the Global Medical Affairs Plan.
• Creating and maintaining medical policies and procedures.
• Supporting global medical booth for HIV Glasgow, in conjunction with Global Franchise team.
• Supporting Global Patient Engagement team in engagement, logistics, and execution.
• Participating in Global Digital update calls embedding digital enhancements throughout Global Medical.

Role 2 – ViiV Compliance Specialist

• Degree requirements: any subject

Overview of the Department

The objective of this role is to join the ViiV Healthcare Compliance organisation, partner with the ViiV business, support Compliance above-country and within Medical/R&D and across other teams. The ViiV Compliance team helps support and facilitate ViiV Healthcare, R&D and Global Medical Enterprise risk management holistically. 

Key Placement Activities

• Creating training materials for Compliance-owned training.
• Support and/or leadership of communication projects e.g. Compliance website and Workplace posts.
• Administration of Written Standards for Medical/R&D and ViiV Healthcare Corporate.
• Management of document archiving for Legal and Compliance teams based in the UK.
• Responding to simple Compliance questions and queries from the business.
• Support Risk Management and Compliance Board Meetings, primarily R&D/Medical e.g. meeting logistics, drafting minutes, compilation of meeting materials.
• Creation, dissemination and analysis of surveys, data, reports, and information, as may be required to support Compliance needs.
• Conduct, support or involvement in monitoring, where required.

Role 3 – Commercial Operations

• Degree requirements: Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Business or related

Overview of the Department

The Health, Value and Access function brings together all the teams responsible for market access activities across communications & government affairs, regulatory, health outcomes and market access. When we created the HVA function in November 2023, we also formed a couple of new teams to help us focus earlier in the assets’ life cycle on essential policy work and improve the operational efficiency of how we do things.

In setting up HVA, we are driven by three key goals:

1. By planning early and across whole lifecycle we want to ensure we get the broadest, fastest access for patients to our medicines and vaccines as for them every day counts.
2. Ensure we do this at a price that appropriately values our innovation.
3. Hardwire a new cross-functional portfolio approach into our ways of working to ensure success – by making portfolio decisions we allocate resource in a way that delivers maximum value and impact for the business.

Key Placement Activities

• Undertaking projects led by Operations that support wider HVA effectiveness and efficiency in bringing new assets to patients that need them.
• Management and development of the HVA Ops hub power BI platform.
• Supporting the evolution of core governance approaches to ensure that performance management and decision making is optimised across the function.

Role 4 – ViiV Safety and Pharmacovigilance

• Degree requirements: Science or related

Overview of the Department

The ViiV Safety Team report into the Vice President, Safety and Phamacovigilance. All members of the team bring expert knowledge and many years of experience in specific areas of pharmacovigilance, ensuring robust patient-focused decisions and excellence in compliance with regulations. As the majority of safety activities are outsourced to GSK, the ViiV safety team work very closely with the wider GSK safety organisation to ensure we meet all our deliverables.

Key Placement Activities

• Support ViiV Oversight of the services provided by GSK safety organisation.
• Monitoring of our market research/patient support programs/interactive digital media from a safety perspective.
• Analysis of data to be included in key safety documentation.
• Supporting with document management within the team.
• Presenting at our key oversight forums, including to senior leaders
• Develop skills in summarising data for senior leaders, document management practices, and using digital tools to build quality and efficiency into work.

Role 5 – Health Outcomes Associate

• Degree requirements: Science or related, preferably with a focus on biomedical sciences, biological sciences, medicine, economics, mathematics, statistics or engineering.

Overview of the Department

The UK Health Outcomes team focuses on therapy areas across the GSK portfolio including oncology, specialty, general medicines, and vaccines. The UK team work closely together and collaborate cross-functionally with highly skilled people across the UK and global function. One of the key priorities for the Health Outcomes team is to play a pivotal role in gaining national market access for GSK’s assets by assessing clinical and economic information and delivering health outcomes solutions internally and externally to enable the UK Health bodies to make informed decisions and provide patient access. You could be involved in a wide variety of tasks and learn to provide technical knowledge in health economics, outcomes research and UK national payer requirements to demonstrate value.

Key Placement Activities

• Support the delivery of health outcomes activities to generate high quality and timely data for the continued access of GSK brands to the UK market.
• Provide input into the development of research, market access and Health Technology Assessment strategies based on business requirements.
• Work with cross-functional teams (e.g., Health Outcomes, Commercial, Medical, Regulatory and Global/European) to develop health outcomes strategies for medicines.
• Present and engage with internal and external stakeholders.
• Liaise with the Health Outcomes team to understand and share best practices to help improve performance and capabilities.

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:

1. Eligibility Form
2. World of GSK Online Assessment
3. Written Assessment
4. Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

About GSK

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, itʼs also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together

How to apply

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