Medical Copy Editor

Touch Surgery ,
London, Greater London
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5 billion people, two-thirds of the worlds population, do not have access to safe and affordable surgical care. As a result, millions go untreated every year, causing unnecessary suffering, permanent debilitation, or death. The causes are a shortage of surgeons, varying quality of care, rising costs of training surgeons, lack of funding, and lack of accessibility to quality surgery. Digital Surgery is on a mission to change surgical care for the better. With our award-winning Touch Surgery mobile application and web platform, it is now the dawn of Digital Surgery. Digital Surgery has created a digital data-driven ecosystem that uses the latest cutting-edge technologies like AI, augmented reality and computer vision to modernize surgical training, orchestrate surgical teams in the OR, and deliver safer surgery around the world. Digital Surgery is seeking an individual from a life sciences and/or writing and editing background to take on the role of Medical Copy Editor to start August 1, 2020. As Medical Copy Editor, you will be responsible for reviewing and ensuring the quality of our medical content. You must have a keen eye for detail and a methodical approach to editing. In the role of Medical Copy Editor, you will be a member of our Medical Education team, a branch of the wider Medical Affairs Department. You will report directly to our Staff Technical Writer. Here's what you'll do (not all of it, just the important stuff): * Review and edit the written content of Digital Surgerys products, including mobile simulations, AR/VR simulations, and annotated videos. * Ensure our medical content is of an appropriate tone and style for consumption by healthcare professionals. * Promote adherence to our company voice and style through communicating editorial feedback to colleagues. * Report commonly observed editorial themes to the Staff Technical Writer, and suggest updates to our in-house style guide. * Additional writing or editing tasks on an ad hoc basis. Requirements * Bachelors degree or equivalent experience. * Background or interest in life sciences, healthcare, surgery or anatomy. * Experience in a writing or editing role. * Adaptable writing and editing style, able to switch between technical, academic or plain English writing to suit document-specific needs. * Teamwork and communication skills. * Computer literacy in a range of productivity and editorial software. Benefits Were in a really lucky position to operate like a small team, with all of the benefits of a big company. Following our acquisition by Medtronic in February 2020, our benefits have had an impressive face lift. ; Our benefit package aims to help support your health, build wealth, grow in your career and share in the success of Digital Surgery and Medtronic. We are in the healthcare business and so in order to look after our people we provide: * Private healthcare via AXA PPP - 100 excess * 30 days holiday + 8 bank holidays * Pension scheme (we double your personal contribution of up to 6%, by contributing 12%) * Annual bonus scheme * Annual meal allowance * Life insurance (4 x annual salary*) * Group Income Protection (67% of insured salary payable until pensionable age) * Personal Accident Cover ( 3 x annual salary) * Maternity - 20 weeks full pay + 15% returners bonus * Paternity - 2 weeks full pay * Employee Assistance Programme (support line for counselling, legal or financial advice) Not to mention all of the other bells and whistles such as free daily breakfast, employee recognition programs, cash for referring a friend and a whole host of other wellness benefits. As part of being Family Friendly, we encourage flexible working so you choose when you start and finish. Slack is one of our collaboration tools to help share information on what our teams are doing. You could even join the #coffee_buddies Slack channel to be matched up with someone for a face to face coffee. So whats it like working at Digital Surgery? Part of the Medtronic family we benefit from a small company feel, within the world's leading medical device company. We have 130 people globally, with teams across the UK, US and Canada. The majority are based in our London HQ in Old Street. The company is made up of several teams covering Engineering, Product, Studio, Innovation, Marketing, HR, Operations, Finance and Sales. We care about our employees career and development, offering training internally as well as external courses and attending global conferences. We believe that helping you grow will help our company grow too. We have our Family Meeting on Friday afternoons with beer, wine and cold drinks - its a great chance to meet new joiners, share success stories and hear whats been going on in the company that week. The Office We have a really open plan office, think New York loft style with break out areas, sofas as well as more formal meeting rooms when you need some privacy. Open kitchen full of healthy snacks, naughty biscuits, tea, Nespresso coffee machin

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