Job summary
- Main area
- Innovation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 289-CR-08
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid Working/ Ferguson House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £82,462 - £93,773 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/06/2025
Employer heading
Innovation lead (Strategy)
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
As an Innovation Lead, you will play a pivotal role in enabling the implementation and uptake of innovation across the local healthcare landscape. You will lead on delivering mission-critical and non-mission-related programs and projects to improve patient care. You will contribute to different stages of a mission life cycle, from selecting new mission priorities to evaluating existing missions and ensuring any innovations scaled are sustainably handed over to the relevant teams in the health system.
We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and a range of skills and experiences. We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong strategy and analytical skillset. Backgrounds in consulting, especially strategy consulting and/or engineering are welcome. However, all applications will be reviewed thoroughly.
Main duties of the job
· Programme leadership: Lead and oversee the execution of a programme of work including several matrix projects, ensuring projects are scoped, planned and delivered to a high standard of quality to deliver impact for our core population.
· Innovation implementation: Lead on implementing and scaling evidence-based innovations within the local health system.
· Stakeholder relationships: Build strong relationships at senior levels across the NHS, academia and innovation organisations.
· Portfolio management: Ensure timely delivery of projects, o within scope, budget and timelines, applying relevant and adaptable project management practices.
· Subject matter expertise on strategy and insights: Act as a senior advisor on strategic capabilities, shaping organizational approaches and methodologies in areas like problem definition, horizon scanning, research and evidence synthesis or evaluation.
· Corporate leadership: help shape the direction and culture of ICHP by being an active member of our leadership team, role-modelling our values and actively participating in organizational improvement initiatives.
Working for our organisation
About Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP)
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) are the Health Innovation Network and innovation partner for North West London.
We exist to support the population of North West London to live healthier, happier lives. We achieve this by testing, spreading and scaling impactful innovation.
We are a membership organisation, owned by North West London’s healthcare and academic organisations.
We work across sectors to address the complex health challenges facing our population.
NW London has created a defined and deliberate portfolio of research and innovation priorities, our Missions.
The Missions help create focus for our vibrant ecosystem, leading to greater impact in three focus areas:
1. Optimising care of long-term conditions (starting with cardiovascular disease)
2. Enabling more days at home
3. Supporting children and young people's mental health
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be working across a highly complex set of relationships, challenges, and innovations to contribute to service transformation. You will be able to think laterally, build strong trusted relationships quickly, and work as a productive team member. You will bring an appetite for analytics, evidence, and learning in everything you do and have an ability to understand new subjects rapidly. In particular, the Innovation Lead is expected to:
– Role model behaviours that live our organisational values of collaboration, courage, quality, and impact; and encourage similar behaviours in colleagues and line reports
– Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development, including undertaking a Personal Development Plan annually; and support systems and processes that enable line reports and teams across the organisation to do this too.
– Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement (including seeking counsel from other when needed); and offer support and guidance for others seeking advice
– Exhibit a curiosity about the work going on across the organisation, and share with others, internally and externally, impactful work that ICHP supports to enable innovation and resolve complex problems
– Actively seek to participate in available project opportunities, with an approximate expectation of being involved in project work for up to 65-70% of your time, and working on several projects at any one time (with oversight and input into a portfolio of work). This is not a formal performance metric, but a rule-of thumb to guide decisions about workload and resourcing.
Person specification
Values, behaviours, personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Values, behaviours, personal attributes
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualifications
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zara Fido
- Job title
- Executive Assistant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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