Job summary
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is seeking candidates with an interest in healthcare to join ourStrategy directorate.
We are looking for individuals to work as an Innovation Manager across a complex set of programmes, relationships, challenges and innovations which contribute to service transformation across North-West London. These programmes support joint working across primary, secondary, tertiary and social care to improve patient care and reduce health inequalities.
Contact us for an informal chat about this opportunity to grow your knowledge and expertise across the wider healthcare sector and beyond medicines.
Main duties of the job
The role of Innovation Manager is to support complex healthcare change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects.
The role enables and supports project and programme delivery, drawing on skills and practices relating to problem definition, scoping and planning, research and analysis, project management, and reflecting and learning.
The role also includes active participation in the development and culture of ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work, and taking a specific managerial responsibility for the development of colleagues.
About us
ICHP is a partnership organisation (hosted by Chelsea and Westminster NHS FT) bringing together NHS providers of healthcare services, across our local Integrated Care System and universities across North West London.
We are also the designated Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for North West London and host of theDiscover-NOWhealth data research hub for real world evidence.
We were created by the NHS to support complex change across the health and care sector - innovating and collaborating for a healthier population.
ICHP is part of the NHS family and our success is the success of our partners. At the same time, we are sufficiently removed from the daily pressures of the health and care system enabling us to provide a fresh perspective, headspace and a bridge into other sectors and industries.
We are therefore uniquely placed to understand the challenges within the NHS, its structures, processes, policies and culture and help solve complex problems. Our team of diverse and committed experts have the tools, networks and skills to quickly understand and tackle these challenges.
We are motivated by our values of creating high quality impact, asking the difficult questions and bringing together the right people to solve a challenge. We are determined to deliver the highest quality of service to help our clients deliver more effective and efficient health and care to their populations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to:
- Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement (including seeking counsel from others when needed); to offer support and guidance to others seeking advice
- Exhibit a curiosity about the work going on across the organisation, and share with others, internally and externally, impactful work that ICHP supports to enable improvement and innovation, and resolve complex problems
- Actively seek to participate in available project opportunities, with an approximate expectation of being involved in project work for up to 70-75% of your time, and working on several projects at any one time (with a mix of longer-term and shorter-term projects).
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to:
- Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement (including seeking counsel from others when needed); to offer support and guidance to others seeking advice
- Exhibit a curiosity about the work going on across the organisation, and share with others, internally and externally, impactful work that ICHP supports to enable improvement and innovation, and resolve complex problems
- Actively seek to participate in available project opportunities, with an approximate expectation of being involved in project work for up to 70-75% of your time, and working on several projects at any one time (with a mix of longer-term and shorter-term projects).
Person Specification
Values, behaviours & personal attributes
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to the organisation's values, which are: collaboration, courage, quality, and impact. Commitment to focus on quality, to promotes high standard, and to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Commitment to continual improvement
- Problem solving and can-do attitude
Skills and capabilities
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision, making decisions or requesting management support as appropriate
- Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Ability to build effective partnerships, common purpose, and shared understanding across a range of diverse and competing views.
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience in leading managing middle-grade (Band 6/7) staff
- Knowledge of health research methods, systems thinking, and medicines optimisation
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree qualification or equivalent experience (especially within the health sector)
- Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects
Desirable
- Training in Quality Improvement e.g. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Model for Improvement or NHSEI Quality, Service Improvement & Redesign
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Person Specification
Values, behaviours & personal attributes
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to the organisation's values, which are: collaboration, courage, quality, and impact. Commitment to focus on quality, to promotes high standard, and to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Commitment to continual improvement
- Problem solving and can-do attitude
Skills and capabilities
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision, making decisions or requesting management support as appropriate
- Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Ability to build effective partnerships, common purpose, and shared understanding across a range of diverse and competing views.
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience in leading managing middle-grade (Band 6/7) staff
- Knowledge of health research methods, systems thinking, and medicines optimisation
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree qualification or equivalent experience (especially within the health sector)
- Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects
Desirable
- Training in Quality Improvement e.g. Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Model for Improvement or NHSEI Quality, Service Improvement & Redesign
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP)
30 Euston Square London NW1 2FB
London
NW1 2FB
Employer's website
https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)