Senior Innovation Advisor

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Innovation Advisor to drive complex change through innovative projects. This role involves managing multiple projects, fostering collaboration, and ensuring impactful service transformation within the healthcare sector. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management skills and a deep understanding of the NHS landscape. Join a diverse and dynamic team dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes, where your contributions will be valued and recognized. If you are passionate about innovation and eager to make a difference in the health sector, this opportunity is for you!

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects.
• Understanding of NHS funding and organizational realities.

Responsibilities

• Support complex change through innovation projects.
• Lead specific project elements with self-direction.

Skills

Project Management

Research and Analysis

Problem Definition

Collaboration

Self-reflection

Education

Degree in Health Sciences or related field

Job description

We are an award-winning organisation providing care at two main hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—and a number of community-based services across London, such as sexual health and HIV clinics.

With 6,700 members of staff, we are proud to care for a diverse population of one million people. We are committed to ensuring that our workforce is just as diverse with a strong mix of skills and abilities.

Our staff are at the very heart of our organisation and we recognise the valuable contribution that each and every person working at the Trust makes. One of our Trust priorities is to be an employer of choice—a place where people want to start their career and to grow with us through continued education, professional development and support.

Site: Hybrid (physical location: Ferguson House, 15 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JD)
Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 13/03/2025

Job overview

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 role primarily supports project delivery, drawing on skills and practices relating to problem definition, scoping and planning, research and analysis, project management, and reflecting and learning.

The role also includes active participation in the development and culture of ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP):

Imperial College Health Partners (hosted by Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust) is a partnership organisation bringing together NHS providers of healthcare services, clinical commissioning groups and leading universities across North-West London. We have been designated by NHS England as the Health Innovation (HIN) for North-West London, and we are one of 15 HINs across England which make up The Health Innovation Network.

We were created by the NHS to support complex change across the health and care sector - innovating and collaborating for a healthier population. We work collaboratively on a portfolio of innovation projects known as the NW London Missions. These have been identified as:

• Optimising care of long-term conditions (starting with CVD)
• Enabling more days at home
• Supporting children and young people's mental health

We also deliver national commissions such as:

• the Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC), which aims to address key safety issues and achieve better clinical outcomes and experience for patients across NW London, by embedding quality improvement methods; strengthening ways of working; and sharing good practice across the system
• the Innovation Exchange, which focuses on supporting innovators and industry partners

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be working across a complex set of relationships, challenges, and innovations to contribute to service transformation. You will be able to think laterally, build strong trusted relationships quickly, and work as a productive team member. You will bring an appetite for analytics, evidence, and learning in everything you do and have an ability to understand new subjects rapidly. In particular, the Senior Innovation Advisor is expected to:

– Demonstrate behaviours that live our organisational values of collaboration, courage, quality, and impact.

– Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development, including undertaking a Personal Development Plan annually.

– Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement (including seeking counsel from others when needed).

– Exhibit a curiosity about the work going on across the organisation, and share with others, internally and externally, impactful work that ICHP supports to enable innovation and resolve complex problems.

– Actively seek to participate in available project opportunities, with an approximate expectation of being involved in project work for up to 80-85% of your time, and working on several projects at any one time (with a mix of longer-term and shorter-term projects). This is not a formal performance metric, but a rule-of-thumb to guide decisions about workload and resourcing.

The description of the role is generic, without reference to specific projects or programmes, which will change over time. Postholders will be assigned to specific projects and programmes during the year, in line with the objectives and development plan agreed each year. Postholders will be expected to work in project-based ‘matrix’ teams, working with colleagues drawn from across the organisation.

Person specification

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications

• Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities.
• Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals.

Important

• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (i.e., passport, driving licence, visa etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six-month probationary period.