Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to deliver better care to patients?
As one of 15 Health Innovation Networks across England, we connect and support academics, NHS, industry and others to bring fresh energy to old problems, inspired thinking to new ones and to adopt innovative practice at scale.
Health Innovation Wessex is hosted by University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, and as such, our roles enjoy NHS terms and conditions. Vacancies listed below will take you through to a link on NHS Jobs.
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Innovation Adoption Programme Manager
Salary £50,952 - £57,349 pa pro rota NHS Band 8a
Fixed term contract 16 months
Full time 37.5 hours per week
Closing 3 May 2024
Interview 14 May 2024
Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to help deliver better care to patients?
At Health Innovation Wessex we improve people’s health, achieve excellence in healthcare and boost innovation and growth in our region’s life sciences and healthcare sector.
As one of 15 Health Innovation Networks across England, we connect and support academics, NHS, industry and others to bring fresh energy to old problems, inspired thinking to new ones and to adopt innovative practice at scale.
Join our Innovation and Adoption Team where you will be responsible for an evolving portfolio of programmes which support innovation adoption across Wessex.
With programme and project management experience in a relevant setting, we welcome applicants with an interest in digital, mental health, health inequalities, workforce, patient and public involvement and engagement and environmental sustainability.
Patient Safety Programme Manager
Salary £50,952 - £57,349 pa pro rota NHS Band 8a
Fixed term contract 16 months
Full time 37.5 hours per week
Closing 2 May 2024
Interview 21 May 2024
Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to help deliver better care to patients?
At Health Innovation Wessex we improve people’s health, achieve excellence in healthcare and boost innovation and growth in our region’s life sciences and healthcare sector.
As one of 15 health Innovation Networks across England, we connect and support academics, NHS, industry and others to bring fresh energy to old problems, inspired thinking to new ones and to adopt innovative practice at scale.
Join our Team where you will be responsible for an evolving portfolio of programmes which support patient safety and innovation adoption across Wessex.
With a clinical background, and programme & project management experience in a relevant setting, we welcome applicants with an interest in safety culture, health inequalities, workforce, patient and public involvement and engagement and environmental sustainability.
Associate Director - Innovation Adoption
Salary £70,417 - £81,138 pa pro rota NHS Band 8c
Fixed term contract 16 months
Full time 37.5 hours per week
Closing 12 May 2024
Interview 20 May 2024
At Health Innovation Wessex, we believe in improving lives through innovation. Creating change through innovative action is at our core. Through new thinking we can ease health and care pressures, and from positive collaboration can deliver meaningful, lasting results.
We enable organisations to understand and adopt proven innovation. We use tested tools which are easy to adopt and embed. Through co-production and delivery, we act on system priorities to sustain innovative solutions, and ensure access to our extensive networks provides organisations with advantage.
We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. You will need a tenacity to succeed, great communication and project management skills, an ability to build new relationships quickly, and the capability to drive innovation in practice. You may not feel you meet all aspects of the role, but we welcome applications from people with a wide range of past experiences whether that be clinical, NHS management or from industry – an appreciation of the challenges involved with innovation deployment and transformation in the NHS is an advantage to succeed in this role. Past experience of commissioning, transformation and project management are also advantageous.
Diversity and inclusivity
We value a workforce where people’s diverse backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives and fresh ideas resulting in the development and spread of life-changing innovations. All regional Health Innovation Networks are signed up to the collective Health Innovation Network's diversity, inclusion and equality pledges.
Our team, our culture
Our values and behaviours are central to our work and how we operate in our day-to-day work life. We encourage a successful work/life balance and support hybrid working, plus training allowances to support your personal development and career goals. Our staff engagement groups shape the organisation’s culture to allow our people to flourish despite times of challenge, change and high demand. We actively uphold values of innovation, inclusivity, collaboration, achievement and trust.
Part of a wider network
As the innovation arm of the NHS, and one of fifteen organisations established by NHS England in 2013, we are uniquely placed to take what works locally and spread it across large geographies. Find out more.
Discover the local area
Health Innovation Wessex is based at the University of Southampton Science Park in Chilworth, close to central Southampton and easily accessed from the M3 and M27 motorways, and Southampton Parkway train station.
We are located in bright modern offices, with free parking and a café and networking spaces on site. 27 acres of the Science Park site are designated a protected Conservation Area and staff are encouraged to explore them.
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