Job summary
The Digital Innovation Manager will work closely with staff across the whole team. The role reports to TheHill Director, and will line manage the pipeline and projects team. The Digital Innovation Manager will also be expected to work closely with a range of colleagues internally and externally and maintain those relationships for the team. This is a role with a wide variety of competing priorities and requires frequent and significant periods of concentration to assimilate and distil key information from a wide variety of sources, using this to inform strategic decisions.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will understand the innovation process and be able to take a professional judgement on the viability of ideas at all stages in the pipeline. They will also feel comfortable sourcing opinions from multiple people, dealing with complex requirements and considering multiple factors in the selection process. Experience of both the NHS, including change management, and start-up companies would be a great asset in this role, as would knowledge of digital technologies.
The ideal candidate will feel comfortable working in a collaborative, creative and flexible environment to enable TheHill to foster new opportunities, whilst also being aware of the governance and policy requirements of a larger organisation.
About us
TheHill is a health and care digital transformation catalyst, part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We work locally, nationally and internationally with the NHS, hospitals, educators, digital developers, innovators and investors to promote and encourage commercial and impactful technological solutions to problems in health and care.
Our mission is to get digital innovation into the NHS, and particularly into Oxford University Hospitals, for the benefit of staff and patients.
Our remit within OUH is threefold: to support staff with digital innovation ideas; to accelerate new solutions of both internal and external origin, facilitating the co-creation of relevant technologies; and to create and maintain external partnerships. This role will support digital innovations across TheHill.
Example activities include our Accelerator programme, innovation competitions, opportunities to engage with innovation (e.g. by coming to our showcase events or becoming an Ambassador), workshops to determine needs and share best practice, cross-ecosystem networking events, 1:1 mentoring and support and the development of a pipeline of digital innovation for the Trust.
We are a diverse, collaborative team who maintain an agile and resourceful approach to digital innovation. We are embedded within Oxford University Hospitals and work closely across the organisation, whilst maintaining a wide network of external partners and a 'start-up' culture within the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Pipeline management
- To lead and manage TheHills pipelines and ensuring the strategic aims and objectives of the process are achieved
- Responsible for creating and filling the pipelines and progressing innovations through the stages, including deciding when support is not appropriate and delivering the unwelcome negative news to innovator
- Manage the progression of projects through the innovation pipelines to piloting and adoption, including complex technical evaluation
- To support colleagues to aid the adoption of suitable technologies as identified through the pipeline process.
- To include quality improvement projects within the Pipeline supporting with the piloting and adoption of new technology resulting in improved patient outcomes
Technology scouting
- To lead on the continual process of technology scouting to identify and engage with promising companies with innovative products and services, driven by the needs of frontline teams;
- Engage with our Clinical Engagement team to understand staff needs and connect with appropriate clinicians for evaluation;
- Establish and maintain records and evaluations of innovations in key areas of need;
- Establish and maintain key strategic relationships with innovation teams, alongside Partnerships Manager
- Monitoring and sharing best practices and trends in emerging technology
Innovation support, management and acceleration
- Contribute to the improvement of SME support programmes by feeding in needs from supported companies, contributing to content and metrics and suggesting improvements.
- Contribute to our efforts towards system-level innovation, in particular participating in workshops to reimagine care, and providing a perspective on feasibility of solutions.
- Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations with respect to their applicability or integration with existing architecture;
Specialist advice and guidance to other teams across the institution
- Support OUH IM&T to identify potential roadblocks for implementation and work with them to develop plans to overcome them to facilitate adoption.
- Provide challenge and innovative thinking into the Trust; ensuring opportunities are identified based on evidence, best practice and industry benchmarking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Job description is attached to this advert
Pipeline management
- To lead and manage TheHills pipelines and ensuring the strategic aims and objectives of the process are achieved
- Responsible for creating and filling the pipelines and progressing innovations through the stages, including deciding when support is not appropriate and delivering the unwelcome negative news to innovator
- Manage the progression of projects through the innovation pipelines to piloting and adoption, including complex technical evaluation
- To support colleagues to aid the adoption of suitable technologies as identified through the pipeline process.
- To include quality improvement projects within the Pipeline supporting with the piloting and adoption of new technology resulting in improved patient outcomes
Technology scouting
- To lead on the continual process of technology scouting to identify and engage with promising companies with innovative products and services, driven by the needs of frontline teams;
- Engage with our Clinical Engagement team to understand staff needs and connect with appropriate clinicians for evaluation;
- Establish and maintain records and evaluations of innovations in key areas of need;
- Establish and maintain key strategic relationships with innovation teams, alongside Partnerships Manager
- Monitoring and sharing best practices and trends in emerging technology
Innovation support, management and acceleration
- Contribute to the improvement of SME support programmes by feeding in needs from supported companies, contributing to content and metrics and suggesting improvements.
- Contribute to our efforts towards system-level innovation, in particular participating in workshops to reimagine care, and providing a perspective on feasibility of solutions.
- Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations with respect to their applicability or integration with existing architecture;
Specialist advice and guidance to other teams across the institution
- Support OUH IM&T to identify potential roadblocks for implementation and work with them to develop plans to overcome them to facilitate adoption.
- Provide challenge and innovative thinking into the Trust; ensuring opportunities are identified based on evidence, best practice and industry benchmarking.
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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).
