Job summary
The Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) provides clinical and professional advice and leadership in healthcare science across the health and care system, is head of profession for a workforce of over 56,000 working in healthcare science in the NHS, embracing more than 54 separate scientific specialisms. The Office of the CSO encourages better use of science to address our greatest health challenges and shape technological advances to help ensure that people are living happier and healthier lives. The NHS healthcare science workforce use science and their technical skills to help prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. They are in a unique position as a scientific workforce, working as part of an integrated health system that is a world leader in transformational science such as genomics, to deliver this work. The team also work to develop the professional, clinical and system leadership capacity and capability of healthcare scientists, who are well placed to provide frontline scientific leadership and science-based intelligence for innovation, service planning and delivery. By ensuring the NHS operates at the limits of science, the Office of the CSO can improve the integration of services, develop new ways of working for delivering care, give patients greater control of their own care and improve the NHS's ability to undertake research and innovation, and adoption of new state of the art health technology.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Senior Scientific Advisor who will work as part of a dynamic team delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the OCSO and Medical Directorate, and support the delivery of NHS England's objectives by providing expertise and professional leadership both to and from the scientific and diagnostic community.
As a senior leader, your role will work closely with the Chief Scientific Officer and Deputy CSO ,offering scientific advice, expertise and leading high profile scientific initiatives across England.
The post holder(s) will be part of a broad leadership team, provide evidence-based advice and guidance to the NHS and wider healthcare and social system inclusive of science in health and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The individual will provide Healthcare science advice into the CSO office particularly as we finalise the HCS strategy and supporting the Chief Scientific Officer's programme team and the whole programme of work. The post holder will lead and advise on work relating to scientific, clinical leadership, diagnostics, accreditation and professional regulation, as well as other work areas as required. Working in collaboration, the post holder will adopt an integrated approach with colleagues across the system, influencing and advising the system to improve quality and outcomes for patients and contribute to the embedding of innovation in healthcare.
About us
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will develop effective strategy for promoting innovation across the NHS. Working closely with colleagues, ensuring coherent strategy and will:
- Drive the strategy for, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
- Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence
- Develop and communicate the vision for Healthcare Science, science in health, the CSO team and strategy and operational policies to support this vision
- Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that NHS England benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
- Support development by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
- Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training productProvide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.
For further information, please see the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will develop effective strategy for promoting innovation across the NHS. Working closely with colleagues, ensuring coherent strategy and will:
- Drive the strategy for, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
- Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence
- Develop and communicate the vision for Healthcare Science, science in health, the CSO team and strategy and operational policies to support this vision
- Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that NHS England benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
- Support development by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
- Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training productProvide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.
For further information, please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Accountable for developing and delivering scientific strategy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence in the Scientific Sector. Working with a range of scientific data, facts and situations often requiring detailed analysis and interpretation making decisions on the most appropriate approach.
- Ability to budget set across a range of scientific services/areas/programmes, managing and monitoring related activity, liaising with finance colleagues to ensure appropriate costing and ensure compliance with Standing Financial instructions and Standing Orders.
- To manage, motivate, inspire and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the responsibilities of NHS England.
- Ability to develop an innovation strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote scientific innovations and scientific best practice.
- Ability to work across multiple scientific and other agencies both within and outside of the NHS, equivalent to an organisation or institution when compared to other NHS provider organisations. Ability to develop an innovation strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote scientific innovations and scientific best practice.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Accountable for developing and delivering scientific strategy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence in the Scientific Sector. Working with a range of scientific data, facts and situations often requiring detailed analysis and interpretation making decisions on the most appropriate approach.
- Ability to budget set across a range of scientific services/areas/programmes, managing and monitoring related activity, liaising with finance colleagues to ensure appropriate costing and ensure compliance with Standing Financial instructions and Standing Orders.
- To manage, motivate, inspire and develop staff within the team to ensure that they are able to deliver the responsibilities of NHS England.
- Ability to develop an innovation strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote scientific innovations and scientific best practice.
- Ability to work across multiple scientific and other agencies both within and outside of the NHS, equivalent to an organisation or institution when compared to other NHS provider organisations. Ability to develop an innovation strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote scientific innovations and scientific best practice.
Additional information
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).
