Job summary
- Main area
- Strategy, Research, Innovation & Improvement
- Grade
- Band 8C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-CR-883-A
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £82,462 - £93,773 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Strategy, Partnerships & Innovation Programme Manager
Band 8C
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
Main duties of the job
Please have a careful read of the JD and PS as they give real clarity and detail as to what the successful candidate will do in the role, and the attitudes, skills and behaviours they will need for their work. If there is anything else you wanted to explore our Exec Director Bob Klaber is available as the contact.
The portfolio is diverse and fast-moving; we will need the post holder to work in a flexible way and be an active part of the senior leadership team who will shape the direction of our strategy, innovation & partnerships work going forward.
Our most important requirement is that you are kind - one of the 4 values and behaviours expected of all of us working in the organisation. We are a team and organisation that is curious, focused on learning and inclusive of different and unique people, with a diversity of voices in all parts of our work. If you apply you will need to explain how you will contribute to this through the way you work and lead.
One final word on AI. We are a Trust with a strong interest in AI, have an AI strategy to guide our AI work, but as you write your application we suggest caution about use of AI in what you write and submit. We are keen to see the quality of your writing, that you can formulate a logical, evidence-based argument and that you are able to bring a strong human sense of your values and what matters most to you in life to your application. We will be putting significant weighting on that as we evaluate applications.
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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bob Klaber
- Job title
- Director Of Strategy, Research & Innovation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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