Job summary
It's never been more important to harness the potential for innovation to transform health and care services. Health Innovation Networks were established 10 years ago as the innovation arm of the NHS both locally with our system partners and working together nationally as a HIN Network. We are appointing to a new role of Director of Corporate and Development. An experienced leader from a health or life science background, you will have a track record for collaboration and network building, and an ability to juggle a complex and diverse portfolio. We are a small team and you will be close to the delivery of our work with an ability to lead and motivate a team of highly skilled innovators and improvers at the top of their game. We serve a range of organisations in the West of England health and wealth ecosystem with a geography that spans three Integrated Care Systems with a combined population of 2.5 million. At the heart of our operating model is our local innovation pipeline that drives the discovery, development and deployment of innovations responding to local system priorities. Working as part of our Executive Team you will support all aspects of delivery, governance and development.
Main duties of the job
Corporate Team leadership supporting the delivery of our complex national and local work programmes
Ensuring compliance with the relevant policies and procedures of the RUH Trust including finance, procurement, recruitment, and HR; provides senior interface with relevant Trust Directors and service leads
Corporate Governance including support to the HIWE Partnership Board
Overseeing all our operating systems and ensuring they are fit for purpose for optimum delivery
Leading on business planning, workforce and Organisational Development, finance and budgetary control and planning
Leading on the development of our organisation
Leading on business development and bid writing
Reporting and assuring all our commissioners and key stakeholders in accordance with our operating licence and commissions.
About us
The Health Innovation West of England is one of 15 Health Innovations across England, established by NHS England to spread proven health innovation at pace and scale. We connect and collaborate with our local NHS and care organisations and universities, and with industry partners, the third sector, and researchers to support transformation across whole health and social care systems, with a clear focus on improving outcomes for citizens. We are an NHS organisation and employment with our Health Innovation is through the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
With headquarters in, Filton Bristol, we support agile working including the opportunity to work from home, and welcome applications from applicants seeking remote working opportunities. You will need to be able to travel to one of our office bases or occasionally to other locations within our geography and nationally for in-person meetings and events.
We value a workforce where people's varied backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives and fresh ideas resulting in the development and spread of transformational innovations. We therefore welcome applications from diverse communities to ensure our team is dynamic, vibrant and reflects the populations we serve.
Find out more about the Health Innovation West of England at www.healthinnowest.net or follow @healthinnowest on Instagram.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional and managerial development
Desirable
- Qualification in HR, finance, procurement, contract management, IG or Company Secretary
- Programme Management qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable working knowledge of health and life sciences industry sectors, the NHS and Higher education
- Experience of senior operational delivery in an NHS or social care setting
- Evidence of the effective application of financial and business acumen in complex problem solving
- Experience of running or working with a PMO
- Demonstrable experience of leading significant change programmes in a clinical setting
- Experience of working in a "Network" where levers to get things done are not always directly owned or commissioned
- Strategic thinker with proven ability to direct strategy development
- Proven track record of organising and directing delivery of operational plans in a complex environment
- oHighly competent at behaviour management and brokering solutions with a diverse range of interests and organisations across sectors and a wide geography
Desirable
- Experience at Director level in an organisation
Values
Essential
- Commitment to creating a working environment where staff are valued, and their well-being is promoted and improved.
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
- Helps and co-operates with colleagues
- Pro-active and takes responsibility
- Willing to learn, open to change
- Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
- Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, and their role
- High standards of corporate conduct and personal probity relevant to the role of director
Specific Skills
Essential
- Highly developed leadership skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the organisation-wide and multi-system wide local performance expectations.
- Ability to analyse, synthesise and interpret highly complex data, filtering and interpreting often conflicting information to develop organisation-wide and system-wide policy
- Intellectual flexibility with the ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity and to shape and implement a vision that looks beyond existing structures and ways of working, and beyond boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery models.
- Sound political judgment and sensitivity when dealing with stakeholders at all levels, with a strong ability to influence where expert opinions differ
- Proven strong written communication skills, for articulating complex issues and concepts including the ability to produce & present effective business cases.
- Ability to have challenging yet constructive conversations
- Highly developed and demonstrable emotional intelligence
- Able to personally involve oneself in problem solving and the pastoral expectations of the role
- Approachable, responsive and receptive
- Tenacious, resilient and a problem solver able to spot issues and unlock them
- Independent, curious, inquisitive and energised by thinking laterally, comfortable living in the "grey area" yet able to turn this into formal processes and deliverables
- Ability to influence and enable highly collaborative solutions whenever possible recognising the different needs of organisations and people
- Interested in innovation and alternative solutions
- Organised and a "born planner"
Physical Skills & Effort Emotional Effort
Essential
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Full driving licence
- Occasional requirement for intense concentration e.g., reviewing business cases, performance reports, minimum data set entries
- Office work involving restricted position when inputting at a keyboard, reading reports, and participating in lengthy video conference calls frequently with back-to-back scheduling on most days
- Requirement to be seated while travelling via car and public transport for regional and national journeys
- Imparting unwelcome news, e.g. where performance targets not met or organisational change
- Regular use of specific software relating to oversight of the innovation pipeline, including the local Customer Relationship Management platform, and the national digital platforms relating to local programmes tracker and real world validation database
Requirements due to Working Environment
Essential
- Ability to work in an agile way - both remotely and face to face on a regular basis
- Requirement to use VDU more or less continuously on most days
- Frequent travel in the South West and nationally, including overnight stays at other venues for attendance at meetings and conferences
- Operating in a complex and ambiguous business environment.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional and managerial development
Desirable
- Qualification in HR, finance, procurement, contract management, IG or Company Secretary
- Programme Management qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable working knowledge of health and life sciences industry sectors, the NHS and Higher education
- Experience of senior operational delivery in an NHS or social care setting
- Evidence of the effective application of financial and business acumen in complex problem solving
- Experience of running or working with a PMO
- Demonstrable experience of leading significant change programmes in a clinical setting
- Experience of working in a "Network" where levers to get things done are not always directly owned or commissioned
- Strategic thinker with proven ability to direct strategy development
- Proven track record of organising and directing delivery of operational plans in a complex environment
- oHighly competent at behaviour management and brokering solutions with a diverse range of interests and organisations across sectors and a wide geography
Desirable
- Experience at Director level in an organisation
Values
Essential
- Commitment to creating a working environment where staff are valued, and their well-being is promoted and improved.
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
- Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
- Helps and co-operates with colleagues
- Pro-active and takes responsibility
- Willing to learn, open to change
- Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
- Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, and their role
- High standards of corporate conduct and personal probity relevant to the role of director
Specific Skills
Essential
- Highly developed leadership skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the organisation-wide and multi-system wide local performance expectations.
- Ability to analyse, synthesise and interpret highly complex data, filtering and interpreting often conflicting information to develop organisation-wide and system-wide policy
- Intellectual flexibility with the ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity and to shape and implement a vision that looks beyond existing structures and ways of working, and beyond boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery models.
- Sound political judgment and sensitivity when dealing with stakeholders at all levels, with a strong ability to influence where expert opinions differ
- Proven strong written communication skills, for articulating complex issues and concepts including the ability to produce & present effective business cases.
- Ability to have challenging yet constructive conversations
- Highly developed and demonstrable emotional intelligence
- Able to personally involve oneself in problem solving and the pastoral expectations of the role
- Approachable, responsive and receptive
- Tenacious, resilient and a problem solver able to spot issues and unlock them
- Independent, curious, inquisitive and energised by thinking laterally, comfortable living in the "grey area" yet able to turn this into formal processes and deliverables
- Ability to influence and enable highly collaborative solutions whenever possible recognising the different needs of organisations and people
- Interested in innovation and alternative solutions
- Organised and a "born planner"
Physical Skills & Effort Emotional Effort
Essential
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Full driving licence
- Occasional requirement for intense concentration e.g., reviewing business cases, performance reports, minimum data set entries
- Office work involving restricted position when inputting at a keyboard, reading reports, and participating in lengthy video conference calls frequently with back-to-back scheduling on most days
- Requirement to be seated while travelling via car and public transport for regional and national journeys
- Imparting unwelcome news, e.g. where performance targets not met or organisational change
- Regular use of specific software relating to oversight of the innovation pipeline, including the local Customer Relationship Management platform, and the national digital platforms relating to local programmes tracker and real world validation database
Requirements due to Working Environment
Essential
- Ability to work in an agile way - both remotely and face to face on a regular basis
- Requirement to use VDU more or less continuously on most days
- Frequent travel in the South West and nationally, including overnight stays at other venues for attendance at meetings and conferences
- Operating in a complex and ambiguous business environment.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
