Editorial Assistant - BMJ India

Job Title: Editorial Assistant - BMJ India

Contract: Permanent - Full time

Salary: Competitive

Location: Noida, India/Hybrid

Application Closing Date: Sunday 17th August 2025

Job Overview

BMJ Digital Health has an exciting opportunity for an editorial role working on BMJ Best Practice, BMJ’s award-winning online clinical decision support tool for doctors and other healthcare professionals. BMJ Best Practice provides the latest evidence-based information to underpin diagnosis and treatment decisions across more than 1,000 medical conditions and symptom presentations. Best Practice is widely used in the NHS in the UK as well as by doctors in many other countries.

The Editorial Assistant role sits within a friendly and supportive team that is responsible for ensuring the clinical content across a wide range of Best Practice medical conditions remains up to date and practical so that doctors can use it to improve outcomes for their patients. This is a great opening for someone who is looking to draw upon and further expand their medical editing skills.

Responsibilities

• You will be involved in various stages of the publication process, including identifying relevant guidelines and journal papers for a topic and liaising with our expert medical contributors.
• You will be responsible for reviewing and editing submitted updates for a wide range of Best Practice clinical topics.
• You will help to support the commissioning and peer review process for Best Practice content.
• You will play a key role in preparing documents for editors and ensuring the smooth running of the updating process.
• You will be responsible for checking contributor competing interest statements and flagging any that need further consideration.

Skills and experience

• Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to engage with medical content.
• Confidence in communicating with external clinical experts.
• Proven ability to work under pressure to deadlines and to confidently juggle multiple tasks.
• Experience of working within a CMS and the ability to adapt to new digital systems.
• Excellent communication skills, including strong editing and content writing skills.
• Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn.

Qualifications

• A degree level qualification in a bioscience or clinical/healthcare subject is essential.
• A relevant postgraduate qualification (e.g., science communication or publishing) and/or experience in an STM publishing environment would be an advantage.