Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative & Clerical
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- 16 months (Fixed Term/ Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 188-THQ1-0116
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Health Innovation Wessex
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 pa pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/05/2024
Employer heading
Associate Director - Innovation Adoption
Band 8c
Job overview
At Health Innovation Wessex, we believe in improving lives through innovation. Creating change through innovative action is at our core. Through new thinking we can ease health and care pressures, and from positive collaboration can deliver meaningful, lasting results.
We enable organisations to understand and adopt proven innovation. We use tested tools which are easy to adopt and embed. Through co-production and delivery, we act on system priorities to sustain innovative solutions, and ensure access to our extensive networks provides organisations with advantage.
We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. You will need a tenacity to succeed, great communication and project management skills, an ability to build new relationships quickly, and the capability to drive innovation in practice. You may not feel you meet all aspects of the role, but we welcome applications from people with a wide range of past experiences whether that be clinical, NHS management or from industry – an appreciation of the challenges involved with innovation deployment and transformation in the NHS is an advantage to succeed in this role. Past experience of commissioning, transformation and project management are also advantageous.
Main duties of the job
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
Working for our organisation
Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is a company limited by guarantee, owned by the NHS and University Members hosted by University Hospital Southampton.
Based at Southampton Science Park in Chilworth in a bright modern office easily accessible from the M3, M27 and Southampton Parkway train station, the location offers free parking with a café area and networking spaces on site. 27 acres of the Science Park site are designated a protected Conservation Area and open to staff.
We are keen to ensure that staff enjoy a successful work/life balance and offer flexible working dependent on the requirements of the role. HIW endorses personal development and provides training allowances to help you deliver in the role and meet your career goals. We also have a proactive approach to wellbeing in line with our core values of being Innovative, Inclusive and Collaborative, with staff engagement groups shaping the organisation’s culture and driving initiatives to allow our people to flourish despite times of challenge, change and high demand.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Associate Director will have a pivotal role in developing and delivering coherent and ambitious innovation adoption programmes in partnership with local health systems, working to enable patients and staff access innovation faster. Leading a small team with associated clinical leadership support, this role will work closely with system partners (including industry partners), and other teams across HIW.
The successful postholder will take the lead supporting an ICS locality in Wessex and will be responsible for the relationship and partnership activities to deliver an agreed delivery plan. They will also lead on a number of cross cutting themes for the organisation, and lead on certain aspects of organisational development.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Developing and delivering a strategy for assigned programmes and developing an innovation adoption strategy for Wessex
- Leadership of business planning and delivery for the whole spectrum of HIW work on assigned programmes
- Progress reporting to different stakeholders including partners, national commissioners (e.g. OLS and NHS England), HIW board, Wessex NHS commissioners and providers
- Creating, developing and maintaining effective relationships with key external bodies and key stakeholders from a very wide range of backgrounds and cultures, often negotiating partnerships where there are potentially conflicting goals.
- Identifying and delivering opportunities for HIW to diversify and expand its income sources in support of its Wessex members by understanding stakeholder needs across industry, academia, the NHS, third sector both in UK and internationally; and shape commercially attractive value propositions for specific stakeholders.
Please refer to the job description for further information regarding the role.
Person specification
Qualifications / training required
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree or equivalent Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent level of knowledge and demonstrable experience
- Management/leadership experience
- Knowledge of the specialist work practices and/ professional guidelines relevant to the Health Innovation Wessex area
- Knowledge and experience of the NHS and local health and social service functions
- Evidence of continued professional development Application/Interview
Desirable criteria
- Project Management training (e.g. PRINCE II)
Previous or relevant experience necessary
Essential criteria
- Significant senior management experience in a health or social care setting or health facing commercial company.
- Senior experience at national/regional level involving influencing and leadership role in health sector. Good knowledge and networks at senior levels in NHS across Wessex area
- Extensive experience of large scale organisational change and strategic change management programmes, building effective working relationships across organisational boundaries
- Experience of interagency and partnership working with Primary and Secondary Care, Social care and voluntary sector
- Experience of motivating and managing multiple teams, including the ability to encourage self-initiative, good practice and the timely completion of projects
- Effective leadership and team building skills
Desirable criteria
- Career experience in both a health and social care setting
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the health Innovation Wessex values and behaviours policy
- UHS Values - Patients First / Always Improving / Working Together
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Booth
- Job title
- Deputy CEO / Director of Innovation Adoption
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Sarah Turl
Associate Director - Operations
[email protected] / 02382020840
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