Job overview

The post holder will work as a member of the Research and Innovation Hub Team, which is part of the Clinical and Care Directorate in Lincolnshire’s Integrated Care Board (ICB).  

The post holder will be responsible for co-ordinating and initiating the development of research grant applications and identifying new health and social care-related research funding opportunities, and act as a key contact for advice relating to research activity for colleagues across the system.

 The post holder has responsibility for ensuring a proactive and integrated approach to research to facilitate embedding research, evidence, and evaluation into core business

Main duties of the job

·       Working with local and regional partners to identify priority areas for the development of research that is suitable for funding by national funding bodies.

·       Support the design of research studies, grant applications and research protocols for a variety of funding streams.

·       Provide critical review of the research proposals prepared by others, carrying out substantive editing and revision where appropriate.

·       Identify new funding opportunities and NIHR priorities to ensure that a broad range of information and general advice on new funding initiatives is disseminated to the appropriate partners in a timely manner.

·       Assist and encourage academics and health and care staff to make connections with one another to enable the development of cohesive and viable research bids.

·       Provide assistance in all detailed aspects of research grant applications, particularly with regard to interpretation of funding criteria applied by the Department of Health and Social Care and ensuring compliance. This may involve communication with external contacts with the funding body with respect to the development of proposals.

·       Assist with supporting research capacity and capability building efforts across the system and where appropriate work with those not yet suitable for funding and assist those achieving funding to develop research bids as appropriate.

For further details please see the job description.

Working for our organisation

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.

In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.

The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB’s objectives and financial sustainability.