HIEM Evaluation Researcher

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A health-focused organization in the United Kingdom is seeking an Evaluation Researcher to provide evaluation support for health and care innovations. The role includes designing and delivering evaluations, conducting rapid evidence reviews, and collaborating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have experience in health evaluations and strong analytical skills, contributing to high-quality evidence of innovation impacts.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and delivering evaluations for health and care innovations.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders in the health and care community.
• Strong analytical skills and evidence-based decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver evaluations to assess the impact of health and care innovations.
• Provide expert guidance and support on evaluation methodologies.
• Conduct rapid evidence reviews and deliver high-quality evaluation reports.

Job description

Health Innovation East Midlands (HIEM) is seeking an Evaluation Researcher to provide evaluation support and advice as well as to design and undertake real world evaluation of health and care innovations.

Working as a member of the Analytics and Evaluation Service team, the post holder will be responsible for delivering key parts of our evaluation offer, including the design and delivery of evaluations undertaken by the team as well as rapid evidence reviews. Evaluations may be commissioned by HIEM or by external organisations and the postholder will design evaluations, develop proposals and ensure evaluations are delivered to a high quality. They will provide expertise, advice and guidance on evaluation for our partners in the health and care community as well as for innovators., The key objectives of this post are to work as a key member of the evaluation team to deliver a high quality evaluation service for HIEM, health and care partners and for innovators and industry.

The evaluation support provided by HIEM is focused on ensuring high quality evidence of the impact of innovations in practice. Working with team, the post holder will provide evaluation advice and services including the design, delivery and dissemination of real-world evaluation.

The team may provide these services to partners across the health and care community as well as for innovators. Evaluations may be undertaken as part of HIEM innovation support or be commissioned by external organisations.

The Evaluation Researcher will be responsible for designing and delivering a range of evaluations across the health and care system in order to evaluate the benefits of innovation in order to support, where appropriate, wider adoption and spread.

We are one of 15 Health Innovation Networks (HINs) around England that operate as the innovation arm of the NHS. We bring together partners from all sectors involved in health and care including the NHS, social care and public health, patients, research, third sector and industry to identify, test and spread new technologies and better ways of working. We save the NHS money, generate economic growth, empower health and care staff, and improve lives for patients. We work closely with our health and care stakeholders to establish their priorities then provide support. As part of a national network of HINs, we import evidenced solutions from other HIN regions and export our successful East Midlands programmes on a national basis. We have a range of objectives, but our overarching aim is always to make a difference for patients.