Job summary
Innovation Lead
We have an opportunity to join our Transformation team as an Innovation Lead, .
The Innovation Lead delivers complex change by bringing expertise, empathy, and energy to the development, execution, and management of innovation projects. You will plan and oversee project and program delivery, drawing on skills in problem definition, scoping and planning, research and analysis, project management, and reflection and learning.
Main duties of the job
Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be one of our Innovation Leads in our Strategy Directorate. If you have the energy and passion for supporting the NHS deal with some of the most pressing challenges, then this role is for you. Main duties:
- Lead project teams in translating complex healthcare challenges playing a key role in delivering North West London Research and Innovation (R&I) missions.
- Collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including NHS organisations, established industry, start-ups, academia, and the voluntary sector.
- Think laterally and develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Build strong and trusted relationships quickly and effectively.
- Contribute to ICHP's culture as a learning organisation by training and developing colleagues.
- Share expertise and contribute to the development of new methods and practices.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement within ICHP and the wider healthcare sector.
Interviews will be held on Friday 15th December 2023
For informal enquiries about the post: please contact Larry Koyama at: larry.koyama@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com
About us
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is a not for profit organisation, established by its constituent NHS and academic members. We exist to improve population health, and we do that by supporting partners to understand complex problems, to innovate, and to implement new approaches sustainably within complex systems.
ICHP is also the designated Health Innovation Network (HIN) for North West London (NW London) - one of 15 across England.
As the innovation arm of the NW London ICS, ICHP has been commissioned to facilitate the coordination and collaboration of a new Mission-led model. This model focuses on a smaller number of priorities, aligned with the wider NW London strategy, where collective effort can lead to bigger gains. These priorities, known as the NW London Missions, have been identified as:
- Optimising care of long-term conditions (starting with CVD)
- Ensuring the right care setting to reduce harm (starting with the acute pathway)
- Supporting children and young people's mental health.
Guided by these shared missions we have an ambition to make NWL the most research and innovation friendly in the country.
Our organisation has a range of talents and experiences, bringing knowledge, skills and experience to the way we connect with our stakeholders.
At a time where collaboration and innovation are crucial to help meet some of healthcare's most pressing challenges, there has never been a better time to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role of Innovation Lead is to support complex change by bringing energy, experience, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation and mission initiatives.
The role plans and oversees 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 and growth of colleagues and teams, and for the development and growth of the organisation in general.
The role plans and oversees 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 and growth of colleagues and teams, and for the development and growth of the organisation in general.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role of Innovation Lead is to support complex change by bringing energy, experience, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation and mission initiatives.
The role plans and oversees 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 and growth of colleagues and teams, and for the development and growth of the organisation in general.
The role plans and oversees 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 and growth of colleagues and teams, and for the development and growth of the organisation in general.
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.
- Demonstrate and promote high standards of quality customer care to both internal and external customers
- Problem solving and can-do attitude
- Commitment to continual improvement
- Flexibility to look beyond existing structures, ways of working to produce more effective and innovative means of working.
- Exercise tenacity in completing tasks set and asking for help when struggling with an aspect of your role
- Methodical in approach, with a good attention to detail.
Skills and capabilities
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision, making decisions or requesting management support as appropriate
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively within a fast-paced and pressured environment, and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach
- Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions
- Advanced level of working with Microsoft Office to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
- Excellent written and communication skills with the confidence to present and communicate effectively with different audiences
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, some at very senior level
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities
- Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
- Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge health research methods, health research methods, and systems thinking
- Experience in managing a budget
- Experience in leading managing middle-grade (Band 6/7) and senior staff (Band 8+) staff
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelors qualification or equivalent experience
- Masters Degree qualification or equivalent experience (especially within the health sector)
- Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects
- 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.
- Demonstrate and promote high standards of quality customer care to both internal and external customers
- Problem solving and can-do attitude
- Commitment to continual improvement
- Flexibility to look beyond existing structures, ways of working to produce more effective and innovative means of working.
- Exercise tenacity in completing tasks set and asking for help when struggling with an aspect of your role
- Methodical in approach, with a good attention to detail.
Skills and capabilities
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision, making decisions or requesting management support as appropriate
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively within a fast-paced and pressured environment, and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach
- Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions
- Advanced level of working with Microsoft Office to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
- Excellent written and communication skills with the confidence to present and communicate effectively with different audiences
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, some at very senior level
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities
- Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
- Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge health research methods, health research methods, and systems thinking
- Experience in managing a budget
- Experience in leading managing middle-grade (Band 6/7) and senior staff (Band 8+) staff
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelors qualification or equivalent experience
- Masters Degree qualification or equivalent experience (especially within the health sector)
- Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects
- 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.