Senior Innovation Advisor

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Innovation Advisor to support complex change, leading elements of innovation projects with energy and empathy. You will manage several external projects at once, ranging from six to twelve weeks to twelve months, guiding research, analysis, and materials production with significant self-direction.

The role operates within NW London’s NHS and research ecosystem, partnering with universities and industry to advance health,

Qualifications

• Experience in coordinating complex change programmes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with self-direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead elements of innovation projects (research, analysis, and materials production).
• Support delivery of projects within allocated resources and timelines.
• Collaborate with NHS partners and industry to deliver innovation in practice.

Job description

The role of Senior Innovation Advisor is to support complex change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects., The post-holder will work on several (e.g. two-to-three) external projects at one time. This will include a mixture of shorter-term projects (of circa six to twelve weeks), and projects within longer term programmes of activity (circa twelve months). The post-holder is responsible for leading specific elements of a project (such as research, analysis, and materials production), working with significant self-direction; and for providing support to successfully manage the completion of the project to time and within the allocated resources. ICHP is a partnership organisation bringing together healthcare providers and universities across North West London. We work collaboratively across our health and research ecosystem in NWL and with industry partners to deliver innovation in practice. Our goals:

• Health: a healthier population, enabled by a systematic focus on prevention, detection and treatment of disease
• Growth: a vibrant UK economy driven by a productive population and thriving healthcare and life sciences industry
• Service: a sustainable health and care service that delivers high quality care for all citizens

Our priorities:

• Create: cultivate the best conditions for the end-to-end testing and scaling of innovation
• Advance: data-driven change, harnessing our capabilities and assets across the lifecycle
• Sustain: support our members with the problems of today, enabling an NHS Fit for the Future
• Shape: the future of health through investments in advanced technologies and funding models

We deliver our goals and priorities through our core portfolios (missions) and our plus work (fee for service).

Core Portfolios:

• Cardiorenal Metabolic Disease
• Obesity
• Children and Young Peoples Mental Health
• Innovator Support
• Patient safety

Plus services:

• Real World Evidence
• Evaluation
• Qualitative Insights
• Service Transformation