Innovation Manager

Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is seeking candidates with an interest in healthcare to join our growing Strategy directorate.

We are looking for individuals to work as an Innovation Manager across a complex set of programmes, relationships, challenges and innovations which contribute to service transformation across North West London. These programmes support joint working across primary, secondary, tertiary and social care to improve patient care and reduce health inequalities.

Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is a not-for-profit organisation, established by its constituent NHS and academic members. We exist to improve population health, and we do that by supporting partners to understand complex problems, to innovate, and to implement new approaches sustainably within complex systems. ICHP is also the designated Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for North West London – one of 15 across England. We are funded through local member contributions, national NHS income as well as commercial income to ensure sustainability.

At ICHP we believe that innovation can be a powerful trigger to create new ways of working. Through working with world-leading hospitals, community providers, commissioners and universities, we match health challenges with new innovations. This helps our partners provide the best possible health and care outcomes for North West London’s 2.3 million residents.

Role

The role of Innovation Manager is to support complex healthcare change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects.

The role enables and supports project and programme delivery, drawing on skills and practices relating to problem definition, scoping and planning, research and analysis, project management, and reflecting and learning.

The role also includes active participation in the development and culture of ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work, and taking a specific managerial responsibility for the development of colleagues.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading on several external projects at one time
• Being responsible for shaping and overseeing projects
• Working to clarify the problem that our work is trying to solve
• Applying recognised methods of issues analysis and problem definition including quality improvement tools
• Play a lead role in the development of project plans
• Determine the planning of appropriate tasks within the project
• Selecting appropriate methods of research to address the defined problem
• Ensuring that research approaches are appropriately rigorous and systematic
• Keeping an overview of the project and ensuring progress on your own tasks, and those of others
• Responsible for a combination of direct line management and project-based team management.

You will be expected to:

• 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); to offer support and guidance to others seeking advice
• 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 improvement and 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 70-75% of your time, and working on several projects at any one time (with a mix of longer-term and shorter-term projects).