Senior Policy Fellow (Health & Life Sciences)

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About us:

Health and Life Sciences are a key policy priority of the new UK government, with a focus on economic growth and the development of the ten year NHS plan, to be launched in Spring 2025. King's Health Partners (KHP) is co-creating a new strategy to 2030, reimagining how we pioneer better health for all. We are collaborating with The Policy Institute at King's College London to strengthen our focus on policy analysis, engagement and influence at a pivotal moment for KHP and the NHS.

The Policy Institute is an exciting, fast-moving environment for a motivated and quick-learning applicant looking to pursue a career in policy research. We expect applicants to draw on many disciplines and research methods, making use of the skills, expertise and resources of not only the institute, but the university and its wider network too. Our research is complemented by extensive communications, impact and engagement activities.

King's Health Partners brings together research, education, and clinical practice across three NHS Foundation Trusts - Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley - and a world-leading university, King's College London.

About the Role:

The successful applicant will work to advance policy and strategy in these core areas, ensuring that KHP is responsive to current NHS policy challenges. Activities will include delivering both responsive and proactive policy analysis and research, producing accessible policy engagement materials such as professionally produced briefs and slide decks, organising stakeholder engagement events such as Policy Labs, drawing up briefing notes and liaising across multiple partners including Guy's & St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts and King's College London, working across the health faculties and beyond.

We are seeking a Senior Policy Fellow who will work with KHP and The Policy Institute to focus on core policy areas including:

• How King's Health Partners can help provide the evidence and support the three shifts proposed in the NHS long term plan (hospital to community, digital approaches and treatment to prevention)
• How can university and NHS partnerships strengthen the life sciences and support economic growth, including accelerating discoveries into clinical practice
• New workforce / care-force models
• Tackling health inequalities

The role is an opportunity to strengthen links between KHP and The Policy Institute at King's, and the applicant will have the opportunity to work in The Policy Institute to advance the strategic mission of KHP.

This role is open to applications from King's Health Partners partner organisations and NHS secondments will be welcomed.

This is a fixed term - you will be offered a fixed term contract for one year from start date.

This is a full-time (35 hour per week) post, but flexible working options can be explored.

King's operates a hybrid working policy.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. MSc level of education (or equivalent experience)
2. A recognition of and passion for the role that evidence can play in addressing societal challenges and improving outcomes
3. Experience in a health policy or health policy-related role
4. Experience of working within the NHS, and with a variety of health professionals
5. Demonstrable research skills in some of the approaches/methods relevant to the role, including conducting policy analysis in health and cross-cutting social policy areas
6. Experience of running high profile and impactful engagement events
7. Excellent written and oral communication, including the ability to adapt for different audiences and skills to assess, analyse and synthesise highly complex information/data from a number of sources
8. Ability to work effectively with people from a wide range of backgrounds, including senior stakeholders, in areas of high ambiguity, across multiple systems, and ability to think strategically and be aware and responsive to political signals and pressures
9. Experience of leading people and teams, managing and successfully delivering complex projects, including negotiation, influencing, and motivation skills

Desirable criteria

1. Experience producing accessible materials communicating research for non-academic audience
2. PhD level of education (or equivalent experience)
3. High level of competence in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information:

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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