Job summary
- Main area
- Innovation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Full time 12 month FTC or Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-TD-INNO-6471519-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place, Leeds / Wellington House, London
- Town
- Leeds / London
- Salary
- £99,891 - £114,949 per annum (exclusive of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Innovation
NHS AfC: Band 9
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
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.
Job overview
This is a key role in the Innovation, Research and Life Science Strategy (IRLSS) Senior Management Team. The Deputy Director of Innovation (Policy & Strategy) will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting policy and strategy staff whilst driving innovation priorities, including translating policy into practice.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will have:
· Extensive knowledge of the life science and innovation ecosystem including key organisations and trends, with the ability to support broader market intelligence of the IRLSS
· Knowledge and experience of the development pathway for innovative products within a specific technology sector and an understanding of working with or in companies developing products, ideally within NHS environment
· Senior experience in the uptake of innovation in either the NHS, industry or a senior policy making role in government or national bodies in NHS service transformation
· A nuanced understanding of the specific barriers to adoption of relevant technologies within the NHS including commercial, data, procurement, and regulatory requirements
· Extensive experience leading large-scale strategy development and delivery, preferably in the innovation or research sector, including working with government bodies, ICSs, industry, and HINs
· A track record of creating strong collaborative partnerships across organisations, agreeing shared priorities and developing work plans against those areas.
· Strong level of technical and scientific knowledge in relevant field and ability to engage with innovator companies on technical and scientific detail related to technology
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.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A key leadership role within IRLSS, key aspects of this position will be to:
· Lead policy and strategy programmes, projects and ad hoc requests, including:
o Develop an overarching strategy for IRLSS that will inform processes such as a Spending Review and public commitments.
o Ensure the Innovation Ecosystem Programme (IEP) delivers to its objectives, reporting into NHS Executive with a dotted line into the Life Science Council, and that the recommendations inform IRLSS’s operating model
o Scoping and assigning new requests from the Transformation Directorate (TD) and IRLSS for Life Sciences Policy and Strategy support, and allocate team members according to capacity and skillsets accordingly.
o Provide other ad hoc leadership support at requests are received by NHSE executives and / or Ministers.
· Support innovation priorities working closely with the IRLSS Innovation team (which includes the Medicines Innovation, MedTech Innovation, Digital Innovation and Innovation systems teams), ensuring that the findings from the policy and strategy programmes are integrated and aligned to innovation work. Including:
o Lead policy development and awareness of products pre-NICE approval to support NHS readiness
o Lead policy development to improve uptake of innovative NICE approved products into NHS organisations including supporting the development of the Integrated Rules-Based Pathway for HealthTech alongside the MedTech Innovation Team.
o Lead Innovation workstreams, which may include policy development, policy delivery and/or programme delivery.
o Provide additional support and capacity to the Innovation team as required, including in response to high priority, time sensitive ministerial requests.
· Manage and actively promote relationships with key stakeholders, including Ministers, NHSE executives and industry.
Building a high-functioning Life Sciences Policy and Strategy, with effective professional development opportunities and a supportive culture
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of the development pathway for innovative products within a specific technology sector and an understanding of working with or in companies developing products, ideally within NHS environment
- Extensive experience leading large-scale strategy development and delivery, preferably in the innovation or research sector, including working with government bodies, ICSs, industry, and HINs
- Senior experience in the uptake of innovation in either the NHS, industry or a senior policy making role in government or national bodies in NHS service transformation
- Extensive understanding and preferably experience of the delivery infrastructure for innovation
Skills and Capabilities
Essential criteria
- A track record of creating strong collaborative partnerships across organisations, agreeing shared priorities and developing work plans against those areas.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Verena Stocker
- Job title
- Director of IRLSS
- Email address
- [email protected]
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