Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 242-4669-LR
- Employer
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 30 Innovation
- Town
- Estuary Point, Parkway or Broughton
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Innovation Consultant
Band 8a
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria at each stage of the selection process. We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, working pattern, caring responsibilities trade union activity or political beliefs-or any other grounds.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of staff from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We encourage applications from all backgrounds to improve the diversity of our workforce and to better reflect the communities we serve to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
Due to the volume of applications received for our advertisements, we will only contact those candidates shortlisted for interview via email; we aim to do this within 4 weeks of the closing date. If you do not receive the email, it will be that you have not been shortlisting on this occasion. When applying for this position, it is essential that you read the job description and person specification fully. Please use the supporting information space to demonstrate your ability to undertake this role, drawing on your skills, knowledge and experience.
We also offers a range of excellent benefits including a pension scheme, up to 33 days Annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays), training and development opportunities, access to NHS discounts, Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, NHS Mortgages and Childcare Vouchers.
Job overview
The trust is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, and highly organised clinician to join our Innovation and Development team as a Lead Innovation Consultant.
There is x1 full time position available, which is focused on the design and delivery of our innovation pipeline and associated workstreams. A main focus of the role will also be on strengthening our innovation partnerships with NHS organisations, academia and the commercial sector.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be uniquely placed to combine their knowledge, digital interests and innovation skills to guide and influence current and emerging ventures. The candidate will possess excellent communication and engagement skills together with a passion for digitalisation and improvement relating to solving everyday basics and delivering on large complex operational and strategic programmes.
The successful candidate will join a small team of designers, solution developers, technical architects, and evaluation experts to deliver digital and clinical innovation across the trust and wider NHS network.
Working for our organisation
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you have read the full Job Description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentational and interpersonal
- Well-developed and evidenced skills in critical thinking to support the development of new/novel solutions
- Excellent skills in implementing software development design patterns MVC, IOC, Separation of concerns
- Well presented, flexible, positive, resilient, methodical, team player
- Able to produce clinical business requirements and high-level design deliverables
- Strong problem-solving approach to live issue resolution
- Able to learn new methodologies and approaches quickly through both self study
- Ability to motivate, performance manage and develop teams and individuals
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to MSc level in relevant subject; or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in this area and currently working towards a Master’s degree
- Evidence of relevant CPD activities
- Evidence of management experience
- Experience of professional and engaging report writing for and presentation to senior management audiences and the development of other documents such as research findings, options appraisals, risk analysis, and proposals
- Have demonstrable working experience in development practices such as: systems analysis, development, Agile / Devops, programming, testing, enterprise architecture and project management
- Experience in research, innovation and commercial contracts
- Experience of planning, managing and delivering innovation or technical based projects/programme management and methodology
- Commercial experience, business modelling and funding pitch preparation
- Demonstrable experience of leading and completing complex innovation projects
- Excellent knowledge of defect management and structured approaches to resolution of issues
- Knowledge of project management and methodologies, e.g. PRINCE 2
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in understanding technical discussions and documentation
- Experience of working with industry and academia to deliver innovation programmes
- Substantial supervisory experience leading innovation and/or development teams
- Substantial experience of Agile development methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban etc)
- Substantial experience involving close working relationships with business users
- Experience supporting business applications inside and outside working hours
- Experience of producing documentation and reports to senior management
- Extensive track record of continuous mentoring experience
Values
Essential criteria
- Strong organisational and time management skills, and evidence of working in a systematic manner
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Confident networker
- Ability to assess and interpret complicated and conflicting information and use judgement where appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Car driver able to work across the North West footprint
- Flexible approach to working and requirement to work unsociable hours in line with the needs of the service
- Working together – demonstrate collaborative and inclusive working and challenge behaviour that is not inclusive or acceptable
- Being at our best – professional and adaptable and takes pride in work
- Making a difference – act with compassion, kindness and integrity towards everyone
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matt Dugdale
- Job title
- Head of Innovation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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