Innovation Policy Manager
| Posting date: | 05 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,025 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Leeds: £40,025; London: £44,043 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 363848/2 |
Summary
The Innovation Division is responsible for addressing one of the Department’s top Ministerial priorities – to increase the adoption of safe, ethical and effective innovations in the health and care system.
It is a new function, established to set a compelling vision for innovation, develop a clear strategy for achieving it, and coordinate delivery so the work gets done. It will address cross-cutting innovation policy questions through its projects team, promote and support a culture of innovation in the Department, and serve core briefing needs.
We are looking to staff this function with a team of creative self-starters who build trusting relationships easily and know how to get things done.
As a top Ministerial priority, it will have significant exposure to Ministers, the Department Board and the Department’s most senior officials. It will work closely with the Department’s wider policy teams and senior leaders in NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Health Research Authority (HRA).
This is a new team welcoming a diverse mix of skills and experience which we expect to be key to its success.
We are looking for two Innovation Managers who are creative and independent thinkers to play an important role developing the Department’s innovation agenda and making sure it is delivered. You will support the scoping and delivery of projects that support the Division’s objectives, which are to:
Clarify innovation priorities: You will work with other key stakeholders across DHSC and its Arm’s Length Bodies to provide our policy teams, delivery partners and the wider health system with more clarity on the Department’s innovation priorities and turn this into an actionable and widely supported plan. You will remain aware of the bigger picture, using relevant insights to develop and challenge the system’s work on innovation and identify issues and trends. You will confidently provide recommendations for future work based on evidenced findings. Indicatively, this could include work to clarify overarching gaps and inconsistencies in the existing set of innovation-related strategies, build a single pipeline of future innovations and coordinate system efforts to support it, or identify which technologies are likely to be ‘game changing’ for the future health and social care system and how the Department should support their evolution.Coordinate system efforts: You will be well versed in building and maintaining networks, actively coordinating system efforts to ensure that the whole health and social care system is aligned behind the department's strategy and delivers the elements that they are responsible for. You will oversee mapping of innovation challenges to prioritise and allocate responsibility for addressing any gaps in government provision. You will lead project management of the team’s activities, developing project plans and maintaining a record of progress against plans to report to senior officials and ministers.Solve high priority cross-cutting innovation challenges: You will lead exciting priority projects, progressing our highest-priority innovation challenges which currently span several policy teams or require independent challenge. Indicatively, this could include projects such as assessing how the health and social care system could capture more of the value it generates for commercial organisations and in doing so better align incentives to support the development and adoption of innovation.Promote and support a culture of innovation in DHSC: You will be instrumental in encouraging and developing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement throughout the health and care system. You will provide thought leadership and create platforms to encourage innovative policy thinking across the department’s grades and policy teams. Indicatively, this could include establishing internal competitions that allow innovative thinking to cut through hierarchy, supporting policy teams to run policy sprints, or developing approaches to more open policymaking.Briefing: You will oversee and support the completion of briefing commissions including correspondence, parliamentary questions (PQs) and briefings for the Department Board.