Job summary
Are you passionate about innovation, addressing inequalities and using evidence to leading change to improve health and care outcomes for our south London population?
The Health Innovation Network's Insights team is looking to recruit an Evaluation Manager with the passion and drive to support south London's health and care organisations in delivering positive change through innovation.
Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, we enjoy the benefits of being NHS members of staff while focusing on innovation to improve the lives of patients and staff in the health and care sector.
The main purpose of this post is to support the Insights team at the Health Innovation Network (HIN) to manage the design and delivery of large and complex mixed methods evaluations for locally and nationally commissioned work within health and care. The role will require experience of working with quantitative data, qualitative data, and ideally health economic data. However, this role has an emphasis on expertise and experience in qualitative methods (i.e. the design, collection, analysis and reporting of qualitative evaluations).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for leading the design and delivering of high quality, large and complex mixed methods evaluations for the HIN's nationally and locally commissioned work. This will include undertaking data collect, analysis and reporting to evaluate the impact of service transformation in health and care using mixed methods approaches. However, the successful candidate will require strong expertise and experience in qualitative methods (compared to quantitative methods). They will work closely with the Head of Insights, Senior Evaluation Managers, Lead Analyst and Lead Health Economist to develop and deliver the HIN's work on evaluation. The post holder will be expected to provide expertise on issues relating to evaluation throughout the HIN, to member organisations across south London and regional/national partners. They will support work to expand the HIN's commissioned evaluation work, which will include helping to produce proposals and bids to secure fee-for-service work. A particular area of expansion for the HIN and its members is the evaluation of digital innovation and health inequalities.
About us
What is the Health Innovation Network?
The Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London, one of 15 health innovation networks across England. We work across a range of health and care services through each of our clinical and innovation themes, to transform care in diabetes, patient safety, mental health, cardiovascular and healthy ageing and to accelerate innovations into the NHS. We help mobilize the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. The HIN works with a range of expert support and services across the health and care sectors that support NHS innovators and companies to realise the commercial and economic potential of their innovations.
As part of the HIN adaptable working principles, which allows our ability to adapt to anticipated changes in project portfolios and gives staff the opportunity to enhance their skills and expertise, the successful candidate may be asked to operate across other themes and projects.
Our Values
Brave - We encourage our teams and others to be brace with their ideas and support them to try new things.
Kind - We care about each other, the people we work with and about the health and wellbeing of south Londoners.
Open - We're open about what we do, and we share what we learn.
Different - We think differently, and we are strong because of our diverse background, talents, and experiences.
Together - We build communities and networks, we collaborate, and we connect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Advisory and analytical role:
- Lead the design, delivery and management of high-quality evaluations
- Lead the data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting of a range of data types (i.e. qualitative, quantitative and health economic data).
- Produce high quality evaluation reports
Management and leadership
- Delegate, supervise and provide line management to junior colleagues (where appropriate)
- Liaise with and managing key strategic relationships with external commissioners and stakeholders (e.g. ICBs/ICSs, NHS trusts, clinicians, senior managers)
- Represent projects at internal and external events, including client workshops/events, conferences (as required)
Information Governance
- The post-holder will be required to handle patient-level data. Ensure compliance with all Information Governance requirements and provide advice to others regarding handling of data for research and evaluation purposes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Advisory and analytical role:
- Lead the design, delivery and management of high-quality evaluations
- Lead the data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting of a range of data types (i.e. qualitative, quantitative and health economic data).
- Produce high quality evaluation reports
Management and leadership
- Delegate, supervise and provide line management to junior colleagues (where appropriate)
- Liaise with and managing key strategic relationships with external commissioners and stakeholders (e.g. ICBs/ICSs, NHS trusts, clinicians, senior managers)
- Represent projects at internal and external events, including client workshops/events, conferences (as required)
Information Governance
- The post-holder will be required to handle patient-level data. Ensure compliance with all Information Governance requirements and provide advice to others regarding handling of data for research and evaluation purposes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through training and relevant experience to at least Masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience in writing high quality reports
- Experience of managing projects
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to convey highly complex information in an accessible and appropriate form to varied audiences
- In-depth specialist knowledge of designing and delivering evaluations using a range of methods (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, health economic)
- Strong analytical skills to analyse and interpret complex and varied data for qualitative and quantitative evaluations
- Expertise in qualitative data collection methods involving professionals and public/patients/service users (e.g. developing discussion guides, delivering focus groups/interviews)
- Up to date knowledge of data protection and Information Governance requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through training and relevant experience to at least Masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience in writing high quality reports
- Experience of managing projects
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to convey highly complex information in an accessible and appropriate form to varied audiences
- In-depth specialist knowledge of designing and delivering evaluations using a range of methods (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, health economic)
- Strong analytical skills to analyse and interpret complex and varied data for qualitative and quantitative evaluations
- Expertise in qualitative data collection methods involving professionals and public/patients/service users (e.g. developing discussion guides, delivering focus groups/interviews)
- Up to date knowledge of data protection and Information Governance requirements
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
