Senior Manager HDRC North Yorkshire
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £55,056 to £63,367 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55056 - £63367 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Northallerton, DL7 8AE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | F0025-24-0019 |
Summary
Job Context The HDRC North Yorkshire is a collaboration with the Universities of Hull and York that will develop the research culture of the Council and build Council-University partnerships to conduct and use research on the health and wellbeing issues that matter to communities and which reduce inequalities (see Research Registry: https://www.researchregistry.com/browse-the-registry#home/registrationdetails/659429d7a9df600027146791/). The HDRC NY has four work packages, each co-Lead by Council staff and University academics: Development of research infrastructure and governance Development of research capacity and capability Dissemination and impact, and Learning and evaluation. This role is pivotal to effectively tackle health inequalities through building up an increased system-wide understanding around the impact of the wider determinants of health across all council directorates. Be a passionate advocate for addressing health inequalities and will be aligned with our values of being: Inclusive, ambitious, creative, together (IACT). Be responsible for ensuring the collaborative achieves its ambition of developing a research culture across the council that will support the transformation and innovation of services to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities. Have operational responsibility for the HDRC NYs Core Team working alongside academic partners ensuring the collaboration meets its delivery plan and complies with NIHR contractual arrangements. Provide expert advice, support, and guidance across the HDRC through the management of five objectives: promoting a research culture, building research capacity and capability, developing research collaboration and co-production, embedding champions of research and effective research communication and knowledge exchange. Have experience of conducting research and evaluation in the context of improving health and reducing health inequalities and have experience in grant writing, monitoring, or evaluating proposals. Be an outstanding people manager, able to lead, motivate and develop a multidisciplinary team, and an excellent communicator, able to build relationships with colleagues across the council and externally. Have some understanding of the strategic and operational challenges of embedding a research culture and putting research into practice within a local authority setting. Possess excellent communication and influencing skills to enable collaborative working with key partners to deliver meaningful engagement with diverse communities, the voluntary sector and those with seldom heard voices. Be able to demonstrate strong leadership and relationship building skills which will be required to manage the complexities involved in consensus building, priority identification and motivating others within an emerging research ecosystem. Operational Management Lead the development and delivery of the HDRC work programme ensuring milestones are met and workloads prioritised. Lead the production of performance reports and submit to relevant committees as required (e.g., HDRC Strategic Steering Group which includes Assistant Directors and Councillors Representatives). Chair the HDRC Operational Group. Develop and monitor appropriate performance indicators/impact measures of the project. Manage the recruitment and training of staff and provide day-to-day management of relevant team members and other staff working with the team. Be the named budget manager to oversee the monitoring and reporting of the HDRC budget (£5 million) and other additional grants as appropriate. Meet reporting requirements of project grant agreement/s. Ensure sharing perspectives, culture, and collaborative working across the HDRC Team, council, universities, and other partners. Coordinate a local authority research champion network to influence research strategic priorities and practice within directorates. Ensure the project actively engages with local communities to listen to their views and involve them in appropriately shaping and undertaking research. Ensure the project is informed and responsive to specialist expertise and the lived experience of independent experts (Independent Advisory Group). Oversight for the leadership and day-to-day coordination, financial and risk management and oversight, research quality and administration functions. Resource Management Ensure grant funding is spent and reported in line with NIHR requirements. Oversee the Partnership and Collaboration agreements. Monitoring expenditure and producing regular budget forecasts, taking action to manage within grant limits where necessary. Provide support and supervise the HDRC delivery team. Develop, in collaboration with academic partners, a CPD programme for the HDRC delivery team that includes mentorship and peer supervision. Participate and contribute to the HAS and wider Council programme of CPD (and academic partners where appropriate). Ensure their behaviours and those of their managers comply with the expectations of the Managers Pocket book. Partnerships Develop strong research partnerships across the regional and national research ecosystem (e.g., NIHR, Universities, NHS, LAs VCSEs, HDRCs) to maximise the potential impact for joint working across a range of research initiatives, including external funding investment. Deputise for the Public Health Consultant (HDRC Director) as required and represent the HDRC North Yorkshire at research forums/meetings/networks as appropriate. Work collaboratively with other local authority staff and partner agencies to influence an integrated and co-ordinated approach to identifying shared research priorities. Lead and oversee the development and delivery of work to build community resilience and research capability, working with Elected Members, local communities and other local partners while building on the skills, assets, and capabilities that individuals and communities have. Strategic Management Lead the development and implementation of a range of strategies to support the HDRC and its objectives e.g., North Yorkshire Council Research Strategy. Lead in collaboration with academic partners on the development and management of the councils research governance system which includes ethical processes. Lead the creation of an environment which fosters the use of evidence in practice, the development of research questions, the involvement of the communities in research priority setting and the production of research evidence for use locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Work with the HDRC Director to ensure alignment of the work of the HDRC with the councils priorities/transformation agenda. Work with the HDRC Director to brief Councillors and Elected Members/corporate managers and external partners as appropriate. Forge strong links with other HDRCs and regional and national networks. Be strategically responsible for the delivery of four Work Packages: Infrastructure and Governance, Capacity and Capability, Dissemination and Impact and Learning and Evaluation ensuring all are underpinned by excellent community engagement and consultation. Provide expert advice into the research ecosystem and drive innovation. Provide strategic oversight on the development and submission of research bids to external funding organisations through local, regional, and national partnership working alongside local people from a range of different backgrounds. Maintain awareness of relevant national and local developments to identify opportunities for development and continuous improvement, contributing to service and transformation planning and the establishment and review of council policies, procedures, and guidance. Take a lead role in building and embedding a strong research culture across the HDRC partners and collaborators. Communications Write reports and deliver presentations on complex research issues to a variety of audiences as required. Provide information, written and oral in an extensive range of formats to a range of stakeholders. Support, contribute to and where appropriate co-author the production of academic research papers. Ensure and promote effective public/community involvement in the planning, development, implementation of research activities (HDRC Engagement Hub). Disseminate key research learning across North Yorkshire as well as via appropriate regional, national, and international forums. Represent HDRC NY at appropriate inter and intra agency meetings, promoting, liaising, consulting, and engaging with managers and staff. Support the response to media enquiries relating to HDRC NY research work as requested by the Public Health Consultant (HDRC Director). Oversight of and manage the HDRC North Yorkshire website. Work with partners in the Council, Universities, the NHS, and the corporate communications team to ensure that effective communication processes, including social media, are used to support the aims and objectives of the HDRC. Carry out duties in accordance with NYC communications policies. Systems and Information Carry out duties in accordance with NYC systems and information policies. Utilise the agreed business processes in relation to record keeping, financial monitoring and ICT. Present complex and sensitive research information to a range of different agencies requiring persuasive and negotiating skills. Regularly monitor outcomes/impact in relation to specific research activities/initiatives. Interpret complex research and information (quantitative and qualitative) to influence decision making and drive the research agenda and culture with the Health and Adult Social Care (HAS) directorate and the wider Council. Formulate and utilise information management systems e.g., computer software to collate and compile records and to convey information.