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Head of Licensing
| Posting date: | 24 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £60,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £60000 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, E20 1JQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | G0002-24-0009 |
Summary
The Head of Licensing will lead the HFEAs licensing and appeals function, taking overall responsibility for our statutory licensing arrangements and all associated committees and channels. This entails oversight of the quality and operational delivery of the HFEAs core licensing function, including the licence committee that hears representations and external Appeals Committee, and line managing the Licensing Manager. Key responsibilities 1. Lead the overall licensing function, with a focus on ensuring that meetings are well run and supported, and that licensing decisions are robust, consistent and accurately recorded. This will entail working closely with the Licensing Manager (LM) to ensure that meeting arrangements and paper sets are of the highest possible quality, liaising with members and the Compliance team as needed to initiate system improvements. 2. Act as owner of the various Licence Committee products such as decision trees and relevant standing orders and ensure they are legally robust and updated as needed. 3. Manage and develop the Licensing Manager. 4. Attend meetings of the various committees as required, supporting the Chair and members as needed. 5. Overall responsibility for ensuring the licensing team and committee members maintain their awareness of legal risks and the nature of quasi-legal decision making, and liaising with senior staff, the Compliance team, and board members to ensure that queries, new issues and any resulting process changes are well thought out and communicated. 6. Liaising with senior staff, the Compliance team, and board members to ensure that queries, new issues, projects requiring licensing input and any resulting process changes are well thought out and communicated. 7. Ensuring there is regular communication between the Licensing and Compliance teams, co-Chairing meetings alongside the Chief Inspector, while maintaining a firewall when it is necessary to do so. 8. Lead on ensuring up to date and appropriate licensing practices and tools are in place, including standard operating procedures and quality assurance measures, ensuring that any changes are well understood by the team and that performance metrics are accurately reported and explained to SMT, CMG and the Authority. 9. Ensuring there is a robust quality assurance system in place for papers, agendas, minutes, licences and notices, and that any licences and notices issued following meetings are issued promptly and accurately. 10. Take a lead role in any corporate projects that have a focus on or interdependency with Licensing, for example changes to Standard Licence Conditions. Ensure that any licensing project work, or licensing input to projects is well coordinated and supported, with a focus on minimising potential errors that could impact on future licensing decisions. Act as the sponsor for major licensing projects such as relicensing exercises. 11. Ensuring implementation of any recommended changes or feedback arising from the licensing committees annual reviews of effectiveness, liaising with the Compliance team and others as necessary. 12. Have oversight of the servicing of occasional representations hearings and appeals, working with the Licensing Manager to ensure that arrangements are in place and outcomes communicated appropriately, and that any necessary internal firewalling is put in place. 13. Lead the annual refresher training for Appeals Committee and Representations members. 14. Work closely with the Board Governance Manager in the Planning and Governance team to ensure that terms of office are managed and that new licensing committee and panel members (Authority members and external members), and their advisers, are appropriately recruited (where applicable), trained and inducted before taking up their roles. 15. Manage the Licensing teams work, direction, staff and budget. 16. Operate as an effective member of the Strategy and Corporate Affairs leadership team and the wider HFEA Corporate Management Group.