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Senior Innovation Advisor

Salary: Agenda for Change: Band 7 (£58,133 – £65,261 per annum, including HCAS)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37.5
Office: Hybrid working with physical office at 15 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5JD)
Closing date: 26 May, 2026
Interview date: 9 June, 2026

 

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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 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 leading 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.

In particular, the Senior Innovation Advisor 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.

 

Working for our organisation

ICHP is a partnership organisation bringing together healthcare providers and universities across North West London. We work collaboratively across our health and research ecosystem in NWL and with industry partners to deliver innovation in practice.

Our goals:

  • Health: a healthier population, enabled by a systematic focus on prevention, detection and treatment of disease
  • Growth: a vibrant UK economy driven by a productive population and thriving healthcare and life sciences industry
  • Service: a sustainable health and care service that delivers high quality care for all citizens

Our priorities:

  • Create: cultivate the best conditions for the end-to-end testing and scaling of innovation
  • Advance: data-driven change, harnessing our capabilities and assets across the lifecycle
  • Sustain: support our members with the problems of today, enabling an NHS Fit for the Future
  • Shape: the future of health through investments in advanced technologies and funding models

We deliver our goals and priorities through our core portfolios (missions) and our plus work (fee for service).

Core Portfolios:

  • Cardiorenal Metabolic Disease
  • Obesity
  • Children and Young Peoples Mental Health
  • Innovator Support
  • Patient safety

Plus services:

  • Real World Evidence
  • Evaluation
  • Qualitative Insights
  • Service Transformation

 

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Anyone considering applying to this role that would like the chance to ask questions is welcome to join our informational webinar, being held online on Microsoft Teams on Monday 18 May, 12:30-13:00 – You can see full details and register here. If you cannot make this time but wish to receive a recording of the session, please register in order to receive it.

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with lucie.wellington@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com.