Salary: AfC Band 8b (£72,921 – £83,362 per annum incl. HCAS)
Location: Marylebone Road, London (with hybrid working)
Contract: Permanent
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 3 September, 2025
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is seeking candidates with an interest in healthcare to join our Innovation and Implementation directorate.
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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.
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Main duties of thejob
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.
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.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of digital transformation projects
- Demonstrates measurable impact
- Experience of working with external technology partners/innovators
- Experience of working in healthcare
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience of implementing AI in a healthcare setting
Working for our organisation
ICHP is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving population health through innovation and partnership.
As the Health Innovation Network (HIN) for North West London (NW London) and the innovation arm of the NWL ICB, ICHP has been commissioned to facilitate the coordination and collaboration of a new Mission-led model, focusing on priorities that align with the wider NW London strategy. These priorities, known as the NW London Missions are:
- Optimising care of long-term conditions (starting with CVD)
- Enabling more days at home (acute flow)
- Supporting children and young people’s mental health
To ensure equitable provision of information to candidates and offer an opportunity to ask questions we will be holding a webinar on Thursday 28 August (12:00-12:45). The aim of the session is to give interested potential candidates the chance to learn more about the opportunity outside of the job description posted, to help them decide whether they would like to apply.
Please register for the session if you would like to attend or watch a recording following the session, using the following link:
For further details contact Adam Ashworth, Innovation Lead. Email adam.ashworth@imperialcollegehealthpartners.com.