Associate Director iCARE (Operations & Digital Health Research)

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the iCARE team as Associate Director of iCARE Digital Collaboration Space, you will lead the delivery of programmes of work in Digital Health that will evidence improvements in direct patient care, NHS operational decision making to improve efficiency and productivity and advancing research, innovation & commercial opportunities.

The role will directly support the iCARE Director and the strategy for delivering on the most immediate priorities in Digital Health across the national and international healthcare landscape

iCARE provides a unique platform enabling routinely collected health data to be used for research, evaluation, and direct care returns. Supported by a multidisciplinary team of talented people with a broad range of backgrounds; from clinicians to data engineers, clinical analysts to data scientists and academics, the iCARE team is delivering a programme of translational clinical analytics and research to deliver new insights, developments, and interventions, and monitoring their impact in healthcare through continuous real-time evaluation in a learning health system. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/icare/

Please note that interviews for this post will be conducted face to face on the 17 July from 11am, interviewing will be held in the Digital Collaboration Space in Paddington, London.

Main duties of the job

• As a senior member of the iCARE team you will directly contribute to and lead on the delivery of a portfolio of translational projects within the Digital Health theme of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, a £95 million translational research initiative for new treatments, diagnostics and technologies, that benefit patients and communities locally, regionally and nationally.
• The Digital Health theme links to the UK Government’s ‘Data saves lives’ vision, which sets out aims for data and digital technology to be used in a safe, trusted and transparent way to improve health.
• The role will directly support the teams strengths in data collaboration, clinical informatics and artificial intelligence to create and evaluate digital and data-driven tools that support and improve the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
• By working with expert stakeholders across multiple disciplines, you will work to address priorities that respond to the needs and preferences of our patients, staff and local communities towards social purpose and care equity during the ongoing digital transformation of the NHS.

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.