Safety Assessor

Posting date:	15 September 2025
Salary:	£38,795 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	13 October 2025
Location:	KT15 3LS
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	412342/1

Summary

About the VMD

You may not have heard of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), but have you ever:

• eaten meat, eggs, fish or honey
• drunk milk
• owned a pet or animal
• taken antibiotics

If you said yes to any of the above, you are directly affected by what the VMD does.

The VMD is the regulatory and policy lead responsible for issues concerning the authorisation, use, and manufacture of veterinary medicines in the UK.

Our aim is to protect public health, animal health, and the environment, and promote animal welfare by assuring the safety, quality and effectiveness of veterinary medicines.

Find out more at: About us - Veterinary Medicines Directorate - GOV.UK

You will be part of the Human and Environmental Safety (H&ES) team, within the Pharmaceuticals team of the Authorisations division. This team is responsible for assessing the human and environmental safety aspects of applications for Marketing Authorisations and Animal Test Certificates for veterinary medicinal products (VMPs).

Your role will be to assess data submitted for applications for variations to marketing authorisations (MAs) for veterinary medicines, and to propose risk mitigation measures where required, contributing to the benefit:risk assessment of the product as a whole.

You will:

• carry out scientific assessment of applications to vary marketing authorisations within required deadlines and following guidance and legislative requirements
• evaluate safety data submitted by the pharmaceutical industry in support of applications
• write assessment reports and present your conclusions for peer review and discussion
• update and interrogate team databases as required
• review recent scientific publications and identify relevant articles of interest for the Safety team
• participate in training to support your own development, and share your own knowledge with the team
• comply with ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 27001 (information security) standards, and GDPR and record management requirements
• act corporately – meeting, role-modelling, embedding, and championing the corporate objectives set by the VMD

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