Job summary
- Main area
- All relevant professional groups (across health and care) within each specialty.
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- 3 years (Three Year Renewable Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Part time - 0.5 session per week
- Job ref
- 188-THQ1080924-A
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southampton General Hospital
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £6,900 pa
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
South Central RRDN - Regional Specialty Leads
Consultant
Job overview
South Central RRDN is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
We welcome applications from all relevant professional groups (across health and care) within each speciality.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for collaborative, ambitious and partnership focused senior leaders to join us as Specialty Leads for our new South Central Regional Research Delivery Network. You will provide the vital link between the regional and national networks of expertise, which is essential to the success of the RDN.
You will play a vital role in leading and supporting the successful delivery of high-quality research in your speciality area, as an active partner in the research system, to increase capacity and capability of the research infrastructure for the future. As a result, research will reach more people, address changing population needs, support the health and care system and the economy, and become a routine part of care. Together we will source, support and deliver funded research across the health and care system in England for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy.
Specialty Leads must be facilitative, be able to work flexibly and effectively in a developing organisation and to motivate and support others to deliver measurable results that make the NIHR RDN vision a reality. As a senior leader within the RRDN, you will be able to act as an advocate and champion - showing credibility amongst peers by actively being involved in the recruitment of participants.
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is an exciting time for UK research and we want to make the UK the best place in the world for commercial companies to bring new treatments and technologies, so these roles are critical to our success in the South Central RRDN region - and nationally.
You will:
- Be able to evidence clinical (includes all health professions), social care, or public health professional status and be an acknowledged local opinion leader within the relevant specialty, with a breadth of appropriate knowledge.
- Have experience of leading regionally in the relevant Specialty area, developing that Specialty collaboratively with patients and the public, and other stakeholders and establishing and sustaining outstanding service and a high-performance management culture.
- Bring knowledge of national and regional systems, structures and processes for supporting health and care research delivery.
- Demonstrate highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate priorities, and effectively engage and influence others at all levels internally and externally, including through presentations and public speaking.
We are committed to providing a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity that attracts, supports, and retains the best students and staff from all backgrounds and from across the world. Whatever role we recruit for we are always striving to increase the diversity of our community, which each individual helps enrich and cultivate.
Additional Information
For a full list of specialities - and their national leads, please visit: https://sites.google.com/nihr.ac.uk/rdn/about-the-rdn/national-specialty-and-settings-leads
Please see the attached Candidate Brief for further information.
If you would like an informal conversation on the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] in the UHS Senior Appointments Team.
Alternatively, if you’re ready to apply, please follow the link below, with a short CV setting out your skills and experience for the speciality area/s you wish to apply for.
Closing date is 30 September 2024
Interviews are planned for October and November 2024.
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Be able to evidence clinical (includes all health professions), social care, or public health professional status, for example by being registered (if appropriate) on the GMC Specialist Register, GMC General Practice register, NMC register, HCPC UK register, Social Work England register or relevant professional register
- Be an acknowledged local opinion leader within the relevant specialty, with a breadth of appropriate knowledge.
- Experience of leading regionally in the relevant Specialty area, developing that Specialty collaboratively with patients and the public, and other stakeholders and establishing and sustaining outstanding service and a high-performance management culture.
- Experience of delivering research as an Investigator in the relevant Specialty area and excellent general research delivery expertise.
- Knowledge of national and regional systems, structures and processes for supporting health and care research delivery.
- Evidence of motivating, supporting and coaching colleagues.
- The ability to work collaboratively, with evidence of successfully developing and maintaining effective working relationships with a range of internal and external partners and stakeholders.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate priorities, and effectively engage and influence others at all levels internally and externally, including through presentations and public speaking.
- Highly developed emotional intelligence and resilience and the ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous and uncertain environment.
- Strong team player with the ability to act as a good citizen within the network representing a diversity of views.
- Politically astute and sensitive to the priorities and dynamics of a complex organisation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane McCartney
- Job title
- Executive Search and Specialist Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
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