Highly Specialised Technologies Committee – Members

Job summary

We are recruiting for professional committee members to join the Highly Specialised Technologies Committee (HST), in the following professions:

• Consultant Geneticists
• Clinicians
• Public Health Specialists

The HST committee mainly considers medicines for very rare diseases to see if they should be routinely commissioned in the NHS. The HST evaluation committee looks at innovative technologies such as, pegzilarginase for treating arginase-1 deficiency in people 2 years and over and cerliponase alfa for treating neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2. The HST committee also sometimes considers topics that would normally go to NICE’s technology appraisal committees, to help with capacity with a focus on rare diseases.

Please note: NICE will reimburse locum backfill for committee members that are working in NHS general practice and a locum is needed to allow their attendance on NICE business. More information can be found here.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities:

Set aside enough time to attend committee meetings and use their personal and professional knowledge to inform the development of the guidance

Raise any concerns about process or details in the draft guidance with the committee, and try to resolve these issues within the committee, with support from the guidance developer or the NICE guidance project team

Contribute positively to the work of the committee and to developing the guidance

Take full account of the evidence in developing recommendations

Consider the analysis and interpretation of evidence prepared by the evidence review team

Act in a professional manner, show good manners and be courteous to colleagues and staff at all times (committee members should behave in a polite, efficient and respectful manner and without bias or favour, using the highest standards of conduct expected in public life and service while on NICE duty)

Be impartial and honest in conducting their duties for NICE, use public funds entrusted to them to the best advantage of NICE, and avoid deliberately damaging the confidence of the public or stakeholders in NICE

Ensure strict adherence to NICE’s Principles and equality policy.

Read and adhere to NICE’s policies on hospitality, declarations of interests and travel and subsistence.

Please see attached Information for Applicants document for more information.

Person Specification

Ability to contribute to the work of the committee

Essential

• Experience in health or social care (as appropriate), either as a practicing health or social care professional, or working in or in association with the wider aspects of health or social care or the healthcare industries
• Active registration with the appropriate professional body [for example any committee members or chairs who are appointed because of their up-to-date specialist pharmaceutical knowledge, are required to be registered with the GPhC],
• (for medical roles only) A licence to practise
• An understanding of the social, political, economic and professional influences on NICE

Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets

Essential

• Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Essential

• Commitment to eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality and an understanding or awareness of the issues of inequality in health, public health and social care settings

Values

Essential

• Which of NICE values listed in the 2025/26 business plan is most important to you as a leader and why?

Closing Date: 9 August 2026