Description
The Senior Innovation Advisor role supports 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 post-holder will work on several external projects at one time, including a mixture of shorter-term projects (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.
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
- 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
The salary for this role is £58,133 to £65,261 a year per annum incl. HCAS.
Job Responsibilities:
- General expectations
- 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:
- Values, Behaviours and Personal Attributes
- Demonstrable commitment to the organisation's values: collaboration, courage, quality and impact
- Commitment to quality, promoting high standards and consistently improving patient outcomes
- Problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
- Commitment to continual improvement
- Flexibility to look beyond existing structures and ways of working to develop more effective and innovative approaches
- Tenacity in completing tasks and willingness to ask for help when required
- Methodical approach with strong attention to detail
- Works across boundaries, seeking collective success and valuing the contributions of others
- Self-awareness and emotional intelligence, with cultural sensitivity and awareness; able to act on feedback
Skills and Capabilities:
- Ability to work autonomously, making appropriate decisions and seeking management support when required
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively in a fast-paced, pressured environment and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach
- Competence in working with quantitative and qualitative data to produce relevant, robust and action-oriented conclusions
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence to communicate effectively with different audiences
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and build strong working relationships