Job summary
Are you passionate about innovation, addressing inequalities and using evidence to lead 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 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 quantitative methods (i.e. the design, collection, analysis and reporting of quantitative evaluations).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for leading the design and delivery 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 quantitative methods (compared to qualitative methods). They will work closely with the Head of Insights, Senior Evaluation Managers and Lead Analyst 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 HIN is the Health Innovation Network for south London, one of 15 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. Health Innovation Networks help mobilize the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. As a Health Innovation Network, 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 brave 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
- 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). However, the emphasis will be on quantitative data collection and analysis methods
- Produce high quality evaluation reports
- Communicate and disseminate evaluation report findings, including the development of promotional materials, promotion of evaluation findings, enabling shared learning to contribute the further implementation of programmes/innovations/service and good practice
- Provide expert advice to colleagues in the HIN, ARC and member organisations (e.g. ICBs, NHS trusts) on the methodology of evaluating the impact of health innovations. This will involve communicating highly complex information to people both with and without specialist knowledge in evaluation
- Develop and deliver specialist training sessions, resources and tools on evaluation to build the capacity and capability of colleagues (in the HIN and member organisations) to undertake evaluations
- Working collaboratively with HINs analysts
- Track progress and performance through a quarterly highlight report to the HIN Exec team
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)
- Establish and manage systems and processes for collating and storing information on HIN evaluations, to share learning from across a range of different services and sites to support further implementation of HIN-related innovations
- Develop and revise systems, processes and policies to support the delivery of high-quality evaluations
- Contribute to the planning and development of the HIN Insights team priorities and strategic direction
- Contribute to developing and expanding the HINs commissioned evaluation work
- Where appropriate, deputising for the HINs Head of Evaluation
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.
Special Requirements
- The post-holder may on occasion be required to work irregular hours in accordance with the needs of the role. They will routinely be expected to travel across south London to meet with member organisations, project stakeholders and others. They will also be required to travel occasionally further afield across the UK.
Please see the job description and person specification for more details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Advisory and analytical
- 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). However, the emphasis will be on quantitative data collection and analysis methods
- Produce high quality evaluation reports
- Communicate and disseminate evaluation report findings, including the development of promotional materials, promotion of evaluation findings, enabling shared learning to contribute the further implementation of programmes/innovations/service and good practice
- Provide expert advice to colleagues in the HIN, ARC and member organisations (e.g. ICBs, NHS trusts) on the methodology of evaluating the impact of health innovations. This will involve communicating highly complex information to people both with and without specialist knowledge in evaluation
- Develop and deliver specialist training sessions, resources and tools on evaluation to build the capacity and capability of colleagues (in the HIN and member organisations) to undertake evaluations
- Working collaboratively with HINs analysts
- Track progress and performance through a quarterly highlight report to the HIN Exec team
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)
- Establish and manage systems and processes for collating and storing information on HIN evaluations, to share learning from across a range of different services and sites to support further implementation of HIN-related innovations
- Develop and revise systems, processes and policies to support the delivery of high-quality evaluations
- Contribute to the planning and development of the HIN Insights team priorities and strategic direction
- Contribute to developing and expanding the HINs commissioned evaluation work
- Where appropriate, deputising for the HINs Head of Evaluation
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.
Special Requirements
- The post-holder may on occasion be required to work irregular hours in accordance with the needs of the role. They will routinely be expected to travel across south London to meet with member organisations, project stakeholders and others. They will also be required to travel occasionally further afield across the UK.
Please see the job description and person specification for more details.
Person Specification
Education Qualification
Essential
- Degree plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through training and relevant experience to at least Masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing projects
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- In-depth specialist knowledge of designing and delivering evaluations using a range of methods (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, health economic) within health/care
- Strong analytical skills to analyse and interpret complex and varied data for qualitative and quantitative evaluations
- Expertise in quantitative data collection and analysis methods
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to convey highly complex information in an accessible and appropriate form to varied audiences
Person Specification
Education Qualification
Essential
- Degree plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through training and relevant experience to at least Masters level or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing projects
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- In-depth specialist knowledge of designing and delivering evaluations using a range of methods (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, health economic) within health/care
- Strong analytical skills to analyse and interpret complex and varied data for qualitative and quantitative evaluations
- Expertise in quantitative data collection and analysis methods
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to convey highly complex information in an accessible and appropriate form to varied audiences
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).
