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The NHS seeks a Senior Innovation Advisor to spearhead health innovation initiatives through the NWL Health Innovation Fellowship. The role entails overseeing multiple projects while fostering personal development in a collaborative environment, aimed at driving positive change in the health sector.
Job summary
Are you passionate about driving innovation in health and care?TheNWL Health Innovation Fellowshipoffers a unique opportunity for NHS professionals to step into a system level role in health innovation, working as aSenior Innovation AdvisorwithImperial College Health Partners (ICHP) - Health Innovation Network. Additionally, you will be supported spend approx. 20% of your week focusing on your personal and network development.
About the Fellowship
This 12-month secondment is designed to empower NHS staff to lead and support impactful innovation projects across the health and care system. Fellows will work on real-world challenges, supported by ICHP's expert team and extensive networks.
Support and Commitment
Applicants must:
Who Should Apply?
We welcome applications from NHS staff in North West London, including:
What You'll Gain
This is a full-time role, structured as follows:
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 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.
About usImperial 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:
We also deliver national commissions such as:
04 July 2025
Pay schemeAgenda for change
BandBand 7
Salary£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum
ContractSecondment
Working patternFull-time
Reference number289-CR-28
Job locationsHybrid (physical location: Ferguson House, 15 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JD)
15 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5JD
General expectations
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.
Please see further information in full job description PDF.
Job description Job responsibilitiesGeneral expectations
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.
Please see further information in full job description PDF.
Person Specification Knowledge, experience, and qualifications EssentialThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer nameChelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
AddressHybrid (physical location: Ferguson House, 15 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JD)
15 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5JD
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Employer details Employer nameChelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
AddressHybrid (physical location: Ferguson House, 15 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JD)
15 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5JD