Job summary
NHS Kent and Medway ICB has been awarded funding to fulfil its objectives to provide leadership for the ICS in research and innovation. This exciting post gives an opportunityfor somebody to lead the way in developing and growing membership of a new online research and innovation platform, working in the Chief Medical Officer's Team.To facilitate collaboration between research and innovation partners across the ICS, the Kent and Medway Research and Innovation Collaborative (KM RIC) has developed an onlineplatform on the FutureNHS system. Twenty organisations from across the NHS, County Councils, Universities and Research Institutions are initially represented on the platformand it is expected that more will join. It is free for anybody with an interest in Research and Innovation to join the platform.The platform will allow individuals to see funding opportunities, find multi-disciplinary and multi-sector research and innovation partners from across the ICS and use the cloudcomputing facilities to work collaboratively and build research funding applications.This project manager role will lead on an active programme to develop the platform to its full potential, recruit members and support external organisations to grow theirpresence on the platform.
Main duties of the job
Developing the Future NHS Research and Innovation Collaborative platform:
- Increasing and enhancing resources available to members
- Supporting Network Managers and other stakeholders to enhance their own resources on the platform
- Providing training for Network Managers and other members of the platform
- Being a lead manager of the platform, having a specialist oversight of Research and Innovation content and resources
- Adding new members, and managing the process to add new members to the online platform
- Collecting and adding as much relevant information to the site as possible.
- Adding funding opportunities and details of grants to the platform.
- Arranging a 'launch event' with local researchers and academics.
- In collaboration with the Kent County Council trainer, roll out research training packages to the Kent and Medway Research and Innovation community.
About us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
Attributes
Essential
- Well developed diplomatic, persuasive and negotiating skills to navigate relationship building amongst research and innovation partners across the ICS
Competencies
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
Attributes
Essential
- Well developed diplomatic, persuasive and negotiating skills to navigate relationship building amongst research and innovation partners across the ICS
Competencies
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
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).
