Our purpose at Health Innovation West of England is to transform lives through innovation. Our license remit, working in close partnership with our local systems and stakeholders, is to develop a rich pipeline of demonstrably useful, evidence-based innovation and to support adoption and spread of proven innovation across the systems we serve.

The Evaluation and Insights team supports health and care teams across our region to understand the impact of introducing innovations. Work can take a variety of forms, such as rapid insight generation, evidence synthesis, mixed methods service evaluation and health economic analysis. We also support the real-world validation of innovations to understand their impact on patients, staff and the healthy economy to understand the potential value of their wider adoption.

The Associate Director for Evaluation & Insights will strategically lead and enhance our approach to Evaluation and Insights, ensuring that we can understand the impact of our work, influence action and share best practice. This is a senior role working as part of HIWE's wider leadership team and will lead the development of enhanced insight and analytical approaches we adopt to inform programme delivery and impact monitoring to increase the impact and the achievement of our new 5-year mission. The post holder will oversee the work of our Evaluation and Insights team, ensuring excellence and supporting individual and team development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead a defined set of evaluation and insights activity to have real impact on health and healthcare by supporting our partnership to gather insights on how and why solutions are successful, articulate impact and understand what innovation to scale.

Key responsibilities include:

• To collaborate with HIWE's wider integrated care, health innovation and research systems, (for example the NIHR Applied Research Collaborative) in the design and delivery of evaluation and insight activity and implementation strategy
• To lead the delivery and growth of a pipeline of evaluation and insights activity (in line with HIWE's business development ambitions), securing funding from a range of funders, and collaborating with our diverse and multi-disciplinary stakeholder communities
• To lead and oversee the team growth and delivery activity to enhance the insights tools and approaches, ensuring they meets the needs of the organisation and evolving these over time
• To work closely with HIWE's discovery, development and deployment teams to demonstrate impact of our work
• To work closely with HIWE teams to ensure meaningful patient and public involvement and community engagement is embedded in our evaluation methods and processes, in line with our new 5-year strategy
• To advocate the appropriate use of data and insight to drive improvement and innovation
• To lead on the delivery of business development activity relating to HIWE's evaluation and insights function

About us

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in undertaking and/or commissioning a wide range of research methods including rigorous quantitative and qualitative techniques such as surveys, mapping exercises, interviews and focus groups, ethnographic research, health economic and advanced statistical analysis

Desirable

• Working with commercial or industry partners, or external suppliers.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of successfully applying for a range of evaluation and research grants and developing collaborative evaluation and insights projects with other organisations

Desirable

• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and of delivering projects across multi-disciplinary sites working with multiple stakeholders

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing and supervising staff

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of data insight, architecture, analysis, research and governance best-practice, methodologies, tools, and frameworks

Skills

Essential

• Advanced written and oral communication skills Highly developed motivational, influencing and negotiating skills with proven experience of success at senior levels of organisations and across organisations including with clinicians and directors

Employer details

Employer name

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Health Innovation West of England

Future Space, UWE North Gate, Filton Road

Bristol

BS348RB

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