Senior Advisor - Delivery Team

Integrated Care System; Great Shelford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading innovation organization in healthcare seeks a Senior Advisor to oversee a thematic programme. This role involves managing diverse projects, ensuring effective delivery, and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders to address health challenges and improve patient care in the Eastern region of the NHS.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex programmes and projects.
• Strong relationship building with stakeholders.
• Proficient in project management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Collaborate with health and care partners.
• Produce regular project reports and updates.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Change Management

Education

Degree in any discipline

Project management qualification

Tools

MS Word

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

TheDelivery Team works with local organisations to deliver national projects tosupport adoption and spread of health innovations with a proven evidence base.We also work with our Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and NHSE East of Englandin the identification, adoption, spread and real-world evaluation ofinnovations that will support the localpopulation and their health and wellbeing priorities. We are currently working on innovations withinmental health, CVD, respiratory illnesses and wound care, all with healthinequalities as a cross-cutting theme. We also deliver a large evaluationportfolio.

TheSenior Advisor will be responsible for a thematic programme or portfolio ofprojects and will provide programme or project management expertise to ensuresuccessful project oversightand delivery, with measurable outcomes.The post holder will be expected to undertakeprogramme or project management activities to ensure compliance with corporate andorganisational requirements for project delivery and achievement of the desiredoutcomes for each programme.

Main duties of the job

It is essential that the post-holder has a goodunderstanding of the challenges faced in healthcare and how we can addressthem most effectively. The post holder will need todemonstrate the following experience

• Experience in developing, coordinating and delivering projectsin collaboration with healthand care partners
• A strong track record of delivering change from start to finishusing continuous improvement,organisational development, strategic development and transformationmethodologies.
• A good understanding of health and care systempriorities and challenges

The post-holder will work closely with the Head of Programmes, othersenior advisors and advisors in the DeliveryTeam, and the real-world evaluation team, to deliveron a wide range of projects.This post would suit someone who enjoys a varied role and collaborating with avariety of stakeholders.

About us

We are the innovation arm of the NHS in the East of England.

Our team of clinicians, clinical scientists, commercial and NHS experts works with pioneering start-ups, universities, global corporates and the NHS to ensure that the best innovations in health and care reach the people and places where they deliver the most benefit. We also have a growing team of specialist programme managers, experts in real world evidence and data scientists who can support you in the specialist work increasingly needed to deliver todays world of technology-enabled patient care.

Job responsibilities

Given the range of projects, the post will involve workingon a number of projects simultaneously and the postholder will be requiredto competently manage them. The post-holder will be required to

• Show adaptability to differenttypes of work
• Take a flexible approach,recognising that projects, activities and tasks will be highly varied
• Demonstrate an aptitude for learning about new areas quickly Ensure projects/programmes aremanaged effectively, leading and being accountable for their successfuldelivery from start through to completion
• Track progress of ongoingprojects to agreed timescales and produce monthly highlight reports
• Provide project/programmeleadership on multiple projects and working as part of or leading a team ofadvisors responsible for delivering an effective transformational supportservice to the Eastern region
• Build and nurture relationshipswith NHS stakeholders to support the successful delivery of projects, includingrepresenting Health Innovation East at nationaland regional stakeholder meetings Write reports to a highstandard in different styles for different purposes and audiences
• Ensure findings arecommunicated locally and nationally through an agreed communications strategy

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in relevant local working groupsand project meetingsto provide information, guidediscussions and capture key actions
• Monitor progress across the programme and produce regularproject reports and updatesfor national, regional and local governance mechanisms
• Support Head of Programmes, ensuring that programmerisks and issues areproactively identified and reported, developing proposals for resolution,mitigation and escalation of any risks
• Work with the Health InnovationEast Programme Management Office to ensure effective and timely financialand performance reporting to SMT, Board and commissioners
• Liaise with other membersof the Health Innovation Networkto share best practice
• Ensure the work undertaken aligns to relevantnational guidance and bestpractice, including NICE clinical guidance
• Work closely with local teams, both face to face and virtually, to shareknowledge and motivate sites to report progress and deliver projects
• Line manage advisors and/orco-ordinators
• Work with senior colleagues to scope and procure independent evaluations and manage them through to delivery on time andwithin budget

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of managing complex programmes and / or projects
• Experience of embedding
• Experience of scoping projects and evaluations
• Experience of translating policy into practice

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of project management methodologies within healthcare settings
• Knowledge and experience of project management and risk management
• Awareness of strategic challenges facing the
• NHS (in particular Eastern region)
• A good understanding of evaluation approaches
• Knowledge of information governance, security, GDPR legislation and guidance

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (any discipline), or with equivalent
• experience relating to healthcare
• A recognised project management qualification

Skills

• Strong relationship building and management skills with a wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent written communication and report writing skills
• involving receiving and understanding complex
• information, summarising and
• disseminating to varied audiences
• Ability to manage own workload, prioritise work in response to
• changing requirements and
• demands and attention to detail
• Proficient in use of a range of IT software, including MS Word, Ms project, Excel and
• PowerPoint
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Good levels of emotional intelligence and resilience
• Ability to provide compassionate leadership, empowering others to make a meaningful contribution
• Ability to create compelling offers for paid work
• Strong analytical / critical appraisal skills