Director of Health Research Strategy

Job title:

Director of Health Research Strategy

Company:

University College London

Job description

About usDate of Interviews: mid-October 2024About our organisations:The appointee will work for both UCL and the North Central London Integrated Care Board.The NCL Integrated Care Board coordinates and commissions activities and services across five North London boroughs to achieve better health and better lives for all, working together with its residents, patients, and their families to design the services that they want to see. It also works in partnership with local NHS services and local authority and voluntary sector partners. Its aim is that everyone has fair access to health and care services that anticipate and meet their individual needs at every stage of their lives.UCL is a world leading, global university, with a community of more than 50,000 students from 150 countries and over 16,000 staff, which pursues academic excellence, breaks boundaries, and makes a positive impact on real world problems. We are consistently ranked among the top ten universities in the world and are one of only a handful of institutions rated as having the strongest academic reputation. We are ambitious for change and are committed to taking ever bolder and more impactful interventions towards becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive university. UCL has recently outlined its approach to transformational change to ensure a sustainable future against a background of financial, sector and geo-political challenges, which represent some of the challenges that currently face higher education. Full details can be found in UCL’s .UCL’s present and former staff and students have included 30 Nobel Laureates. It is a truly international community: almost half of our students and nearly a third of staff are from outside the UK. More than half of our student community is engaged in graduate studies, with almost 6,000 of them pursuing research degrees.In the most recent (2021) Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise, UCL was rated the top university in London and second in the UK for ‘research power’, consolidating its position at the top of the table. The REF confirmed UCL’s multidisciplinary strength, with outstanding results achieved across the subjects, ranging from biomedicine, science and engineering and the built environment to education, laws, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Further details about UCL can be found at .The Health Partnerships Team supports the development and management of strategic health projects and partnerships across UCL. The team provides stakeholder coordination, business case and strategy development, coordination of applications for infrastructure funding, relationship management and support for corporate governance and project reporting. 0coordinating activities that straddle HEI partners and NHS Foundation Trusts. The team also has a health governance role supporting the main UCL Fitness to Practice Panel and key health-related committees.About the rolePlease note the salary range for this role is circa £99,891The appointee to this key post will work in partnership with the Pro-Provost (Health) and the Director of Health Partnerships to co-lead the Pro-Provost (Health) portfolio and activities. The Director of Health Research Strategy, a post that is shared with the North Central London ICB, will leverage the strengths of UCL and the ICB to support research in the local community through UCL researchers working with local collaborators. The role-holder will have oversight of the coordination of the three biomedical research centres, four clinical research facilities and other major health research collaborations with the NHS. The Director of Health Research Strategy will also take a leading role in the development of UCL’s health strategy, overseeing the delivery framework, and the coordination of health work between UCL faculties.For UCL, the role-holder will:

• lead the coordination of health across UCL faculties as a key member of the Life and Medical Sciences Leadership Group;
• convene support for the UCL Health and Life Sciences Committee, a sub-committee of the University Management Committee;
• have oversight of the framework of memoranda of understanding and agreements for health partners, working across UCL departments and partners to manage the operational implications, negotiating opportunities for best practice, consistency and efficiency across health;
• contribute to UCL Grand Challenge projects, where there is alignment with Health Strategy priorities and opportunities.

For the North Central London Integrated Health Board, the role-holder will:

• lead the development of the NCL ICS Research Strategy, working closely with communities;
• lead the development of the research function within NCL ICS and maximise opportunities for collaboration. The appointee will ensure a coherent approach to research and innovation as well as increasing income generation;
• assume responsibility for leading the ICB’s work in discharging its duties and responsibilities under the Health Act 2022 for the facilitation and promotion of research;
• maintain and extend relationships between academic research, the ICB and wider ICS with key stakeholders;
• develop the NCL Population Health and Integrated Care Strategy and drive equitable improvements to population health outcomes, contributing to delivery of the ICB’s Public Sector Equality Duty;
• represent the Integrated Care System (ICS) regionally and nationally on research and benefits realisation work, advocating for the needs of residents and care teams in NCL.

About youThe successful candidate will be educated to master’s level in a health-related subject (or equivalent) with knowledge of research programme development and delivery, as well as the national and regional strategic policy landscape across health and care. The post-holder will have knowledge of NHS finance and contracting approaches, experience of working with complex datasets, and be able to demonstrate the ability to manage a large budget. They will be a consummate communicator and negotiator with the ability to establish and maintain highly effective ways of working. They will be able to demonstrate a coherent approach across health partnership activities, with academic and national funding partners and with a complex network of stakeholders. The appointee will have excellent written and analytical skills with a high level of critical thinking and strategic planning.What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days).
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme.
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE).
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan.
• Immigration loan.
• Relocation scheme for certain posts.
• On-Site nursery.
• On-site gym.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service.
• Discounted medical insurance.

Visit to find out more.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.Available documents

Expected salary

£99891 per year

Location

North West London

Job date

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:58:59 GMT

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