Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare Innovation and Research
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6722475-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE base
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 per annum (exclusive of London weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Healthcare Innovation and Research - New Hospitals Programme
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
The post holder will lead the Innovation hub team which will support the workstreams in horizon scanning national and internationally, reviewing the evidence and/or developing the evidence base in partnership with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) and Think Tanks. The successful post holder will be able to work at and develop working relationships with national and international leads/ experts/ working groups to support our thinking and decision making and develop the approach and direction of the team ensuring that regional and national work and key stakeholders are encouraged to be active participants.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have accountability and responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the Department/Directorate/Sector. Plans to achieve the strategy will be underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.
Key aspects of this role will be to:
- Ensure the strategy is formulated, understood by all stakeholders and is delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure the development and management of relevant strategic plans, within the Sector.
- Ensure appropriate system and processes are in place to enable the implementation of the strategy plans in the new organisations.
- Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
- Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
- Manage the whole budgetary implications of activity.
- Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Manage and actively promote the 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
For further details on job description and responsibilities please see attached job description.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level or with equivalent experience of working at a senior clinical and operational level a provider level organisations
- Hold clinical professional registration
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge and experience at a senior level within an acute hospital setting. This would be at Deputy Director or near Board level
- Have experience of a leadership role within a new hospital build programme, or major government programme
- Demonstrate extensive innovative problem solving within the health care environment.Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Relationship builder in a complex environment – comfortable building strong relationships at all levels internally and externally (DHSC, NHS Trusts, design organisations, construction organisations and the wider public sector) and being able to influence in complex stakeholder environments.
- Able to create, develop and implement a strategy with a collaborative and inclusive leadership style.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Wharton
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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