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Essential
29 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Qualifications
Master’s level qualification or equivalent experience
- Qualifications
PRINCE2 or equivalent experience in the management of complex projects
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to work autonomously, making appropriate decisions and seeking management support when required
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to prioritise workload effectively in a fast‑paced, pressured environment and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach
- Skills and Capabilities
Competence in working with quantitative and qualitative data to produce relevant, robust and action‑oriented conclusions
- Skills and Capabilities
Advanced Microsoft Office skills to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
- Skills and Capabilities
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence to communicate effectively with different audiences
- Skills and Capabilities
Developed communication skills to deliver key messages to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including very senior audiences
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to work as part of a team and establish and maintain good working relationships
- Skills and Capabilities
Highly organised, able to prioritise, and flexible to with emergence of issues in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment. Ability to anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context.
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to build effective partnerships, common purpose, and shared understanding across a range of diverse and competing views.
- Knowledge and Experience
Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including funding and organisational realities
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of delivering complex healthcare‑related improvement projects and programmes alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of developing, delivering and managing complex improvement projects as part of a multi‑disciplinary team
- Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge health research methods, health research methods, and systems thinking
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Demonstrable commitment to the organisation’s values: collaboration, courage, quality and impact
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Commitment to quality, promoting high standards and consistently improving patient outcomes
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Demonstrates and promotes high standards of quality customer care to internal and external customers
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Problem‑solving skills and a can‑do attitude
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Commitment to continual improvement
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Flexibility to look beyond existing structures and ways of working to develop more effective and innovative approaches
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Tenacity in completing tasks and willingness to ask for help when required
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Methodical approach with strong attention to detail
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Works across boundaries, seeking collective success and valuing the contributions of others
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Self‑awareness and emotional intelligence, with cultural sensitivity and awareness; able to act on feedback
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Professional conduct in relation to confidentiality, security, integrity, honesty, performance, attendance and appearance
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
Health clearance by Occupational Health for the specified role
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Evidence of post‑qualifying and continuing professional development
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to lead people with vision and integrity, demonstrating the courage to do the right thing.
- Skills and Capabilities
Ability to motivate high performing teams, mobilising individuals, and teams around shared goals.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in managing a budget
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in leading managing middle-grade (Band 6/7) and senior staff (Band 8+) staff
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working at a senior level in health service, local authority, academic, or related field
- Knowledge and Experience
Proven experience of establishing and leading on national strategic work in relation to policy development, operations, and systems
Job overview
- The role of Innovation Manager is to support complex change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects.
- The role primarily supports project 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 Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work. Please note that we will be closing the advert after the maximum number of applications have been received, so please apply as early as possible if interested.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work on several (e.g. two-to-three) external projects at one time. This will include a mixture of shorter-term projects (of circa six to twelve weeks), and projects within longer term programmes of activity (circa twelve months).
The post-holder is responsible for shaping and overseeing the delivery of projects (including coordinating research, analysis, and materials production), working with significant self-direction; and for providing support to successfully manage the completion of the project to time and within the allocated resources.
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 Innovation Manager 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.
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This advert is for Innovation Manager with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum incl. HCAS. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (End date Feb 2028 (dependent on start date)). The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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