Strategy, partnerships and innovation programme manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

The work of the strategy, research, innovation & improvement directorate primarily focuses on the delivery of the third strategic goal - 'to build learning, improvement and innovation into everything we do'. The directorate includes sub-functions of improvement, innovation, strategy & partnerships [to which this role directly relates], sustainability, population health & equity and life sciences. Each of these sub-functions lead on the development & delivery of key strategic programmes through practical implementation and use of improvement method, capability building and development of partnerships across the specific subject areas which have been increasingly prioritised in the national context.

We are seeking a dynamic Strategy, Partnerships & Innovation Programme Manager to support our Executive Director, Prof Bob Klaber, in delivering our ambitious objectives. This role is pivotal in coordinating and implementing our organisational strategy, fostering innovation, and managing key partnerships.

INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY 14TH AND TUESDAY 15TH JULY (VIRTUALLY)

SOME CANDIDATES MAY PROGRESS TO A 2ND INTERVIEW ON MONDAY 21ST JULY (IN PERSON AT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL)

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for coordinating and tracking the refinement and implementation of our organisational strategy, leading on strategic review processes and priority setting, and supporting the development of other internal strategies.

We are looking for someone to lead the development of the Trust's approach to innovation. This will include providing strategic support to Paddington Life Science Partners, a new life sciences cluster centred around St Mary's Hospital, and playing an active role in the Trust's Commercial & Innovation work, identifying opportunities for collaboration and commercial and strategic partnerships which support our ambitions to be innovation and research-led.

Managing key strategic partnerships for the Trust, including our partnership with Chelsea FC Foundation and Imperial Health Charity, as well as with local authorities, will be a key aspect of this role. Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support the Director in the leadership of the strategy development work will be essential.

This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of strategic development in a leading NHS Trust. You will play a key role in shaping the future of healthcare delivery, fostering innovation, and building meaningful partnerships that make a real difference to our patients and communities.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level
• Postgraduate qualification or relevant experience
• Strategy, innovation and/or improvement science qualification or relevant experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience in implementation of strategic change programmes
• Completion of formal programme in coaching / mentoring / training delivery
• Project / programme management qualification
• Completed research degree (ie doctorate, MD, PhD)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Considerable experience of leading strategic change in a complex environment
• Experience of working with staff outside the employing organisation to deliver change such as improvements in performance, quality and efficiency e.g. commissioners and patient groups
• Experience of working with a variety of clinical staff including senior clinicians and clinical academics
• Experience of the design, development and delivery of programmes or project initiatives

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with other corporate teams collaboratively to improve quality and efficiency of care
• Experience of supporting change in a politically sensitive environment
• Experience of working in or with a large, multi-site NHS provider
• Experience of working with local communities and third sector

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to employ a wide range of tools and techniques to plan, deliver, monitor, evaluate and sustain improvements and change and coach projects teams to use these too.
• Has an excellent understanding of research and evaluation methods including mixed methods evaluation and wider impact evaluation tools such as return on investment
• Has sound IT skills (incl email and Microsoft Office packages)
• Able to manage budgets, including external grant funding and charitable support
• Able to work in a matrix structure, bringing together different types of expertise to work collaboratively
• Ability to assimilate and analyse data from several sources (including national benchmarking and other strategic drivers), bringing it into a coherent narrative for project planning and reporting purposes and making recommendations where appropriate.
• Ability to identify and assess risks (both project delivery and impact of changes) and develop suitable mitigations in partnership with key stakeholders
• Outstanding writing and presentation skills to be able to clearly articulate key strategic priorities and rationale in a range of different written and other formats.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 624.9KB)
• Functional Request Form (PDF, 44.7KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)