Job summary
- Main area
- Innovation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (until mid March 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-TD-INNO-6825598-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS England Office in Leeds / London
- Town
- Leeds / London
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director Digital 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. As Deputy Director of Digital Innovation, the post holder will lead and work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Digital Innovation Team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have accountability and responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the team. The postholder will have to work closely alongside the Deputy Director for MedTech Innovation to ensure policy and programme alignment.
Key aspects of this role will be to:
- Ensure the policy and strategy for Digital Innovation, across clinical pathways and specialties in the NHS, is formulated, understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure that policy and strategy provide a systematic approach to adoption of beneficial, value for money, health technologies, locally, regionally and nationally within the NHS.
- Ensure development and management of relevant strategic plans, within the Sector.
- Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of policy developed and strategy plans in NHS organisations.
- Proactively manage key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
- Monitoring and establishing accountability on the progress of the policy and strategy development and delivery to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
- Manage the budgetary implications of activity.
- Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Manage and actively promote relationships with key stakeholders.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities will include leading all activities in the Digital Innovation team, such as:
- Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments, the organisation in defining the strategy. In order to support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan.
- Lead on policy development within Digital Innovation with impact across the organisation, including:
- Policy development and awareness of products pre-NICE approval to support NHS readiness
- Policy development to improve uptake of innovative NICE approved products into NHS organisations
- Lead work with relevant clinical and commercial teams to support approval, adoption and purchasing of innovative products
- Make recommendations, provide advice and prepare strategic reports/briefings as required.
- Develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the portfolio.
- Develop and present detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for senior staff or groups of staff as directed from time to time, tailoring the content to meet the needs of the audience.
- Working across multiple agencies both within and outside of the NHS, equivalent to a directorate when compared to other NHS provider organisations.
- Support the Director in senior stakeholder engagement and aligning the function/strategy from strategic objectives and business needs.
- Work across the wider organisation to agree prioritisation of blocks of work and related resource allocation.
- Motivate and inspire staff throughout the strategy to role model leadership and innovation
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
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of key players and trends within the technology sector and able to support broader market intelligence of the AAC team within those sectors
- Knowledge of approaches and methods to developing clinical trial and real world evidence for technology products, including digital health technologies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of the development pathway for products within specific technology sector, including digital health technologies, and experience of working with or in companies developing products, ideally within NHS environment
- Knowledge and experience of the specific barriers, levers and incentives to adoption of relevant technologies within the NHS including commissioning, commercial, data, evidence generation, procurement, reimbursement, implementation, evaluation and regulatory requirements
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of deploying products in local health care setting.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Emily Henderson
- Job title
- Director of Innovation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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