Associate Director - Innovation Adoption | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 - £81,138 pa pro rota |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO16 7NP |
| Company: | University Hospital Southampton NHS FT |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6257165/188-THQ1-0116 |
Summary
At Health Innovation Wessex, we believe in improving lives through innovation. Creating change through innovative action is at our core. Through new thinking we can ease health and care pressures, and from positive collaboration can deliver meaningful, lasting results.
We enable organisations to understand and adopt proven innovation. We use tested tools which are easy to adopt and embed. Through co-production and delivery, we act on system priorities to sustain innovative solutions, and ensure access to our extensive networks provides organisations with advantage.
We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. You will need a tenacity to succeed, great communication and project management skills, an ability to build new relationships quickly, and the capability to drive innovation in practice. You may not feel you meet all aspects of the role, but we welcome applications from people with a wide range of past experiences whether that be clinical, NHS management or from industry – an appreciation of the challenges involved with innovation deployment and transformation in the NHS is an advantage to succeed in this role. Past experience of commissioning, transformation and project management are also advantageous.
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is a company limited by guarantee, owned by the NHS and University Members hosted by University Hospital Southampton.
Based at Southampton Science Park in Chilworth in a bright modern office easily accessible from the M3, M27 and Southampton Parkway train station, the location offers free parking with a café area and networking spaces on site. 27 acres of the Science Park site are designated a protected Conservation Area and open to staff.
We are keen to ensure that staff enjoy a successful work/life balance and offer flexible working dependent on the requirements of the role. HIW endorses personal development and provides training allowances to help you deliver in the role and meet your career goals. We also have a proactive approach to wellbeing in line with our core values of being Innovative, Inclusive and Collaborative, with staff engagement groups shaping the organisation’s culture and driving initiatives to allow our people to flourish despite times of challenge, change and high demand.
The Associate Director will have a pivotal role in developing and delivering coherent and ambitious innovation adoption programmes in partnership with local health systems, working to enable patients and staff access innovation faster. Leading a small team with associated clinical leadership support, this role will work closely with system partners (including industry partners), and other teams across HIW.
The successful postholder will take the lead supporting an ICS locality in Wessex and will be responsible for the relationship and partnership activities to deliver an agreed delivery plan. They will also lead on a number of cross cutting themes for the organisation, and lead on certain aspects of organisational development.
Key Responsibilities Include:
• Developing and delivering a strategy for assigned programmes and developing an innovation adoption strategy for Wessex
• Leadership of business planning and delivery for the whole spectrum of HIW work on assigned programmes
• Progress reporting to different stakeholders including partners, national commissioners (e.g. OLS and NHS England), HIW board, Wessex NHS commissioners and providers
• Creating, developing and maintaining effective relationships with key external bodies and key stakeholders from a very wide range of backgrounds and cultures, often negotiating partnerships where there are potentially conflicting goals.
• Identifying and delivering opportunities for HIW to diversify and expand its income sources in support of its Wessex members by understanding stakeholder needs across industry, academia, the NHS, third sector both in UK and internationally; and shape commercially attractive value propositions for specific stakeholders.
Please refer to the job description for further information regarding the role.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024