Senior Innovation Manager

Job overview

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

We are looking for individuals to work as a Senior Innovation Manager across a complex set of missions / programmes, relationships, challenges and innovations which contribute to delivering healthcare innovation at scale in North-West London.  These missions / programmes support joint working across primary, secondary, tertiary and social care to improve patient care and reduce health inequalities. We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and a range of skills and experiences. For this recruitment round we are particularly interested to hear from candidates with experience of implementing digital healthcare solutions including AI with an agile approach, matching innovative solutions to user-needs in complex environments and working with innovators.

Potential employment backgrounds could include but are not limited to: healthcare start-ups; digitally focused public sector teams and management consultancies.

Main duties of the job

The role of Senior 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 leads, enables and supports project and mission / 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 Manager is expected to:

• –  Role model behaviours that live our organisational values of collaboration, courage, quality, and impact, and encourage similar behaviours in colleagues and line reports –  Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development, including undertaking a Personal Development Plan annually; and support direct reports to undertake a similar process. –  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 other when needed); and offer support and guidance for 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 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 70-80% 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 post-holder will lead on several (e.g. two-to-three) external projects at one time, and potentially provide input / advice to several others. 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 directing others; and for managing various inputs to ensure the completion of projects to time and within the allocated resources.