Salary: Agenda for Change: Band 7 (£54,320 – £60,981 per annum)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37.5
Office: Hybrid working with physical office at 15 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5JD)
Closing date: 6 May 2025
Interview date: 20 May 2025
Job overview
- The role of Senior Innovation Advisor 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 ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work.
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.
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).
- Lead on specific elements of a project (such as 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.
- 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.
Person specification
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Bachelors qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities
- Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with lucie.wellington@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com.