Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex operates a flexible resourcing model which means that the details of specific evaluation and insights work may be varied over time to meet the needs of organisation in supporting delivery of commissioner requirements.

Key Result Areas

The post holder will lead and deliver a defined set of evaluation and insights activity to generate evidence of impact on health and healthcare through working with our stakeholders.

The post holder will be responsible for the successful delivery of the required outcomes relating to evaluation and insights work, including governance and assurance, monitoring, risk management as appropriate and be responsible of reporting using our internal Verto tool.

The post holder will represent Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex at the Network wide Community of Practice forum.

The post holder will generate income from third party sources for the organisation

Key Responsibilities

• To collaborate with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex’s teams including: delivery (including innovation and enterprise), translational research, commercial/DDAI and Corporate 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 Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex’s business development ambitions), securing funding from a range of sources, and collaborating with our diverse and multi-disciplinary stakeholder communities.
• Support the selection and management of evaluation suppliers and delivery activity to enhance the insights tools and approaches, ensuring they meet the needs of the organisation and evolving these over time.
• Manage the supplier framework for evaluation services
• Provide scoping of evaluations for innovators, health and care stakeholders, Pharma and internal colleagues as required
• Design and deliver webinars in relation to evaluation and analytic services for a range of stakeholders, not limited to but focusing on Innovators and system leads
• To work closely with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex teams to ensure meaningful patient and public involvement and community engagement is embedded in our evaluation methods and processes
• To advocate the appropriate use and value of data and insight to drive improvement and innovation and business cases for health economics through communications, processes, webinars and workshops for and to our stakeholders
• Embed a culture and system of continuous learning into approach to work in order to evolve our core methods in evaluation, spread and adoption, knowledge management and patient and public partnership
• Quality assure the delivery of evaluation and insights work and activity
• Be a role model for best practice, learning from experience and from others, supporting the spread of innovation within the organisation and beyond.
• Be accountable for the delivery of, robust, information systems to ensure that all evaluation and insights documentation is stored and used effectively
• Communicate the vision for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and support the development of strategy and operational policies that support this vision, as may be required
• Communicate, engage and build relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation, wider health innovation network and wider health and social care systems and partner organisations
• Engage and manage relationships with stakeholders to achieve a common purpose and realise mutual benefits
• Forge close working relationships across the organisation and beyond to facilitate an effective matrix management approach to delivery of evaluation and insights activity
• Provide advice and guidance to the wider programme and project management team as a subject matter expert in insights and evaluation methodologies, tools and approaches and where appropriate provide training to staff.
• Communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to wide range of audiences, including in public and local consultations where there may be hostile/antagonistic audiences
• Hold budgetary responsibility for the evaluation and insights function, tracking and monitoring spend
• Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year
• Build a collaborative working environment and innovative culture
• Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to relating to evaluation and insights activity
• Promote innovation and development initiatives as may be appropriate to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation or re-engineering existing processes
• Contribute to the development of strategic processes and polices that support the work of evaluation and insights activity within the wider organisation and across health and social care
• Develop policies relating to the delivery of evaluation and insights work
• Work within organisation and national guidance, interpreting national guidance relevant to evaluation and insights activity and act a subject matter specialist
• Provide advice and guidance across the Health Innovation Network and beyond on specific subject matter areas
• Work with other Health Innovation Network Evaluation leads to develop long-term strategic plans that integrate evaluation and insights activity across the Health Innovation Network and the two local integrated care systems we serve
• Responsible for leading the delivery of the portfolio of evaluation and insights work for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex
• Leading and overseeing the set-up and delivery of evaluation and insights work – both in the short and medium term. Working across all teams and with the Executive Management Group to design and develop a model for this service post the contract term.
• Representing Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex on the Network Community of Practice Group
• There will be an INCOME GENERATION TARGET (To be confirmed).

General Responsibilities

• To be an active member of the Health Innovation KSS team
• To promote the vision and values of Health Innovation KSS.
• To share knowledge and work collegiately to mutual benefit with across partners, stakeholders and colleagues
• To ensure effective communications within and between teams, and to be involved in and participate in team meetings/days, team briefings, development days and corporate events etc.
• To engage in regular performance reviews against agreed objectives. To be responsible for actively identifying own development needs and committing to a personal development plan based on continuous learning.

Values and Behaviours

Health Innovation KSS has developed a clear vision for the direction of the company. A set of values and behaviours have also been developed and agreed to underpin this vision. Our values and behaviours framework can be found below. Applicants and employees will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to these values and behaviours, which will be assessed through the recruitment, selection and appraisal processes.

Diversity and Equal Opportunities

It is the desire of Health Innovation KSS to broaden diversity within its workforce.

Health Innovation KSS is an equal opportunities employer and ensures that all new, existing and prospective employees are treated fairly through the principles of equal treatment and promotion of diversity.

This includes:

• ensuring that all individuals who come into contact with Health Innovation KSS,