Job Description

Freelance medical/ clinical editors - various levels of experience

BMJ Knowledge Centre

We are looking for enthusiastic freelance editors to join our roster working on clinical content for BMJ Best Practice. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a friendly and talented team, commissioning and editing evidence-based medical content.

Best Practice is an online tool that helps doctors and other healthcare professionals to make the right decisions when diagnosing and managing their patients. It is widely used in the NHS as well as by doctors in many other countries.

Our team is responsible for ensuring the clinical content across more than 1000 medical conditions remains practical, up to date and easily digestible for our target audience. We have opportunities available for freelance editors to join the team at various levels of seniority/ experience, including:

Section editors - these are senior roles that require experience in planning, commissioning, writing and editing complex medical content for a demanding audience of clinicians. You will be liaising with external clinical experts and updating our content to ensure it remains in line with the latest evidence and guidelines.

A medical or biomedical degree is essential and clinical experience would be advantageous. You might be an established freelance medical editor with proven experience of producing practice-changing clinical content, or you could be a clinician who has some writing or editing experience and a hunger to get involved in a freelance medical publishing role, perhaps alongside your clinical work. You will need proven writing skills, strong editorial instincts, meticulous attention to detail, well developed critical appraisal skills and the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.

Assistant commissioning editor - to support our team working on new medical condition topics. You will use your research skills to identify authors and peer reviewers who have the right expertise to cover a specific condition for Best Practice. You will then commission new topics from these experts, ensuring their brief is clear, responding to any queries and tracking progress to ensure deadlines are met. You might also support the team with less complex editing tasks and will quality check new topic content on our preview site prior to publication.

This is a great opportunity for a freelancer who has a biomedical degree or clinical qualification, together with some experience in medical publishing. You will need strong initiative, proven research abilities, excellent communication skills and a meticulous approach to your work.

The roles will be largely home-based with occasional opportunities to come to our central London office. For either role, you will need to be available to work on a freelance basis for at least 2 (and ideally 3+) days per week.

Why work for us

Help us create a healthier world. We are a global healthcare knowledge provider. We publish The BMJ, one of the world\'s most impactful medical journals and over 70 influential speciality journals. We offer digital tools to help health professionals worldwide tackle critical healthcare challenges. Find out more about us .

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