# Innovation Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/innovation-manager/b1d59e12-9e1a-44c9-ad78-8cec93187874 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/innovation-manager/b1d59e12-9e1a-44c9-ad78-8cec93187874.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum incl. HCAS - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (End date Feb 2028 (dependent on start date)) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T14:00:48.474Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Chelsea_Westminster_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Innovation/Innovation-v8354168 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8354168?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. Please see further information in full job description PDF. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience - Master’s level qualification or equivalent experience - PRINCE2 or equivalent experience in the management of complex projects **Desirable** - Evidence of post‑qualifying and continuing professional development ### Skills and Capabilities **Essential** - 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 - Developed communication skills to deliver key messages to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including very senior audiences - Ability to work as part of a team and establish and maintain good working relationships - 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 - Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context. - Ability to build effective partnerships, common purpose, and shared understanding across a range of diverse and competing views. **Desirable** - Ability to lead people with vision and integrity, demonstrating the courage to do the right thing. - Ability to motivate high performing teams, mobilising individuals, and teams around shared goals. ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - 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 - Knowledge health research methods, health research methods, and systems thinking **Desirable** - Experience in managing a budget - Experience in leading managing middle-grade (Band 6/7) and senior staff (Band 8+) staff - Experience of working at a senior level in health service, local authority, academic, or related field - Proven experience of establishing and leading on national strategic work in relation to policy development, operations, and systems ### Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes **Essential** - 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 ## Documents - [recruitment pack (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1313) - [policy statement (pdf, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=891) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 85.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=890) - [ichp innovation manager jd (pdf, 256.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10679927) - [staff benefits and wellbeing (pdf, 177.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1256) - [ichp innovation manager functional requirements (pdf, 371.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10679928) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.