Job summary
We have a new and exciting role at UCLPartners, leading the
implementation of healthcare innovations. You will work closely with our Chief
Innovation Officer, UCLPartners colleagues, partner organisations and other
Health Innovation Networks to implement proven innovations at scale across
UCLPartners geography.
Please find out more and apply for this role via our website at:
https://uclpartners.com/vacancy/director-of-implementation-3/
Interviews will be held on 4th or 5th November 2024
Main duties of the job
The role is an outstanding opportunity to have real impact on health and healthcare through innovation. You will lead highly skilled teams to adapt, problem-solve and implement innovations with our partners and communities. You will draw on your collaborative leadership style, creativity, operational effectiveness and experience of innovation in complex environments.
Initially, the focus of this leadership role will be leading major implementation programmes in cardiovascular health one of UCLPartners strategic priorities. For example, UCLPartners work in CVD ranges early-stage work with researchers looking at the potential of wearables to implementation work across London to create a step-change in the prevention of strokes and heart attacks. In the recent past, UCLPartners developed its Proactive Care Frameworks the use of which has now scaled to half the PCNs in England.
About us
UCLPartners is a health innovation partnership. We serve
five million people from North London to the Essex coast.
Our mission is life-changing innovation. We seek longer, healthier lives
through research and innovation. Working in partnership, we solve
the biggest health challenges and grow them to scale.
Our partnership includes superb hospitals, universities and
health systems, with significant innovation capability. These institutions
serve a diverse, talented population facing challenges of poverty and
ill-health.
Our Academic Health Science Centre oversees the translation
of scientific discovery for patient benefit. Our role as a Health Innovation
Network supports larger-scale health innovation adoption, working closely with
the national Health Innovation Network.
Through our strategy, we are committed to the development of a leading
health research and innovation system and the design implementation and
evaluation of solutions that improve health, reduce inequality and make
healthcare sustainable.
Our work is strengthened by meaningful collaboration with
patients and the public, as well as by collaboration across healthcare
providers, higher education, industry and charities.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and
support our staff to model these values. You can read more about our
commitments on our website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide operational leadership for innovation implementation in relation to one or more of UCLPartners priorities. This will include implementation programmes funded under our core commissions as a Health Innovation Network, and those funded by other partners.
- Lead one or more of our larger implementation projects and support and coach colleagues to successfully lead others.
- Support the Chief Innovation Officer to develop and win funding for new projects, and to build and maintain relationships with key funders and partners.
- Support the Chief Innovation Officer in the development and implementation of internal operational systems and processes to support delivery. Support the development of skills in our implementation teams, embedding a consistent, rigorous and effective approach to implementation science.
- Work closely with our academic and enterprise teams to ensure our implementation programme is populated by cutting edge innovation from HEIs and industry
- Work collaboratively across and beyond UCLPartners, adopting a one-team approach to meeting our objectives
- Work closely with our engagement and PPIE team to ensure innovation implementation is informed by meaningful patient and public involvement and that community engagement is integral to our programmes
- A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and an understanding of how these principles apply to this role
- Work closely with our People Function to ensure implementation is informed by the perspectives of our provider workforce, their development and wellbeing
- Provide visible leadership and role modelling in the development and maintenance of a positive culture, standards and values
- Promote collaboration, teamworking and inclusivity.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide operational leadership for innovation implementation in relation to one or more of UCLPartners priorities. This will include implementation programmes funded under our core commissions as a Health Innovation Network, and those funded by other partners.
- Lead one or more of our larger implementation projects and support and coach colleagues to successfully lead others.
- Support the Chief Innovation Officer to develop and win funding for new projects, and to build and maintain relationships with key funders and partners.
- Support the Chief Innovation Officer in the development and implementation of internal operational systems and processes to support delivery. Support the development of skills in our implementation teams, embedding a consistent, rigorous and effective approach to implementation science.
- Work closely with our academic and enterprise teams to ensure our implementation programme is populated by cutting edge innovation from HEIs and industry
- Work collaboratively across and beyond UCLPartners, adopting a one-team approach to meeting our objectives
- Work closely with our engagement and PPIE team to ensure innovation implementation is informed by meaningful patient and public involvement and that community engagement is integral to our programmes
- A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and an understanding of how these principles apply to this role
- Work closely with our People Function to ensure implementation is informed by the perspectives of our provider workforce, their development and wellbeing
- Provide visible leadership and role modelling in the development and maintenance of a positive culture, standards and values
- Promote collaboration, teamworking and inclusivity.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership enabling delivery of innovation or transformation programmes of work
- Previous experience of leading or implementing change, innovation or transformation in healthcare
- Collaborative leadership style with experience in co-designed programmes of work
- Track record of working successfully with the voluntary sector or other patient organisations, and of actively involving patients in programmes of work
- Ability to work flexibly and across different teams and disciplines
- Ability to communicate complex and challenging issues to stakeholders in science and healthcare and more widely across academia, the NHS and government
- Ability to collaborate with and influence a wide range of individuals and groups in professionally based organisations
- A strong commitment to equity, and diverse and inclusive teams and principles
- A higher academic degree, e.g. MD/MS or equivalent in experience
- Personal credibility within the healthcare and academic communities
- Understanding of the role and remit of the NHS; awareness of relevant NHS policy; and understanding of the importance of both clinical and research governance in clinical service delivery.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership enabling delivery of innovation or transformation programmes of work
- Previous experience of leading or implementing change, innovation or transformation in healthcare
- Collaborative leadership style with experience in co-designed programmes of work
- Track record of working successfully with the voluntary sector or other patient organisations, and of actively involving patients in programmes of work
- Ability to work flexibly and across different teams and disciplines
- Ability to communicate complex and challenging issues to stakeholders in science and healthcare and more widely across academia, the NHS and government
- Ability to collaborate with and influence a wide range of individuals and groups in professionally based organisations
- A strong commitment to equity, and diverse and inclusive teams and principles
- A higher academic degree, e.g. MD/MS or equivalent in experience
- Personal credibility within the healthcare and academic communities
- Understanding of the role and remit of the NHS; awareness of relevant NHS policy; and understanding of the importance of both clinical and research governance in clinical service delivery.
