Job description
UKSBM Fellow
Location: Flexible
Hours: 10% or 20% FTE (please specify in your application which you would prefer)
Salary: Will be commensurate with qualifications and experience
Contract type: Fixed for 3 years (with review after 1 year)
Post available: from January 2018 (a period of shadowing is expected from Autumn 2017)
Interviews to be held: Autumn 2017
You will support the activities of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (UKSBM) and facilitate the goals of the society. As Fellow you will have particular responsibility to foster knowledge exchange, political advocacy, and public engagement in behavioural medicine in the UK. You will be the first point of contact for Society members engaging in activities in these areas. You will also be expected to maintain your status as an active researcher, playing a leading role in your team and developing a growing reputation within your research field.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Seek out relevant opportunities to communicate the aims and objectives of the Society.
2. Identify open consultations from policy making bodies (e.g. NICE) relevant to the interests of the Society
3. Respond to consultations by initiating action in collaboration with the Executive Committee, consulting key experts in the Society membership, synthesising views and responding appropriately in a timely manner.
4. Maintain an archive of Society consultation responses and a list of contributors
5. Work with the UKSBM Web and Communications Officer to develop the Consultation page on the Society website.
6. Identify UK All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) with interests relevant to behavioural medicine and to maintain an updated list on the UKSBM website
7. Attend APPGs as a representative of the Society when appropriate or supporting Executive Committee members to attend the meeting by assisting with preparation.
8. Identify ways to engage with relevant UK All APPGs to increase the impact of behavioural medicine research in the UK.This may involve direct contact with APPGs or supporting activities of other Society members interacting with APPGs.
9. Work with the UKSBM Web and Communications Officer to develop the Advocacy page on the Society website.
10. Engage with Society members and act as a conduit for communication between the membership and the Executive Committee.
11. Work with the Society Membership Secretary to find ways to capture the interests and skills of the Society’s members and ways to engage them in the work of the Society to further the cause of behavioural medicine.
12. Identify ways of engaging the Society membership in achieving the Society aims.
13. Work with the Society Executive Committee and Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) Local Organising Committee chair to identify workshop opportunities, within the ASM and across the year, to develop the skills of the members.
14. Work with the Society President-Elect and Early Career Network (ECN) Chair to identify opportunities to further the development of the Society, including exploring links with other relevant academic societies and professional bodies in healthcare.
15. Monitor social media activity relevant to behavioural medicine and promote the Society through social media.
16. Develop public engagement within the Society, taking on public engagement roles personally or supporting Society members to do so.
17. Inform the UKSBM Executive Committee of progress on a regular basis through written reports and face to face/videoconference meetings.
18. Report to the membership annual via a presentation at the Annual General Meeting and a written statement in the Annual Report.
19. Play a full and active role in UKSBM decision making processes through Executive Committee meetings.
20. Regularly review the role of the Fellow and provide information and shadowing opportunities for the next incumbent.
21. Assist the Society President and Executive Committee in reviewing Society policies and practices.
22. Take on additional tasks as agreed with the Executive Committee.
23. Link with other comparable post holders in other Behavioural Medicine groups nationally and internationally.
24. Enthusiastically advocate for behavioural medicine in the UK and for the UKSBM.