Senior Innovation Advisor

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 the full job description PDF.

Person specification

Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable commitment to the organisation's values: collaboration, courage, quality and impact
• Commitment to quality, promoting high standards and consistently improving patient outcomes
• Demonstrates and promotes high standards of quality customer care to internal and external customers
• Problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Commitment to continual improvement
• Flexibility to look beyond existing structures and ways of working to develop more effective and innovative approaches
• Tenacity in completing tasks and willingness to ask for help when required
• Methodical approach with strong attention to detail
• Works across boundaries, seeking collective success and valuing the contributions of others
• Self-awareness and emotional intelligence, with cultural sensitivity and awareness; able to act on feedback
• Professional conduct in relation to confidentiality, security, integrity, honesty, performance, attendance and appearance
• Health clearance by Occupational Health for the specified role

Skills and Capabilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to work autonomously, making appropriate decisions and seeking management support when required
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively in a fast-paced, pressured environment and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach
• Competence in working with quantitative and qualitative data to produce relevant, robust and action-oriented conclusions
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence to communicate effectively with different audiences
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and build strong working relationships

Desirable criteria

• Developed communication skills to deliver key messages to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including very senior audiences
• Highly organised, flexible and proactive, with the ability to anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery in a dynamic environment

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including funding and organisational realities
• Experience of delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
• Experience of developing, delivering and managing complex improvement projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of health research methods and systems thinking

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Master's level qualification or equivalent experience
• PRINCE2 or equivalent experience in the management of complex projects
• Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on