Head of Innovation Business Development

Head of Innovation Business Development

Main area

Head of Innovation Business Development

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

196-SMT1641

Employer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type

NHS

Site

Education Centre

Town

London

Salary

£82,462 - £93,773 p.a. inc. HCA

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

03/11/2024 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.







Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs,





local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners,





one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success.





We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

Interview dates to be confirmed.

We are seeking a visionary and results driven Head of Commercial Development to accelerate impact to patients and commercial value creation within our commercial partnerships and heath technology development portfolio.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for execution of the commercial agenda and strategy within the commercial innovation portfolio,





working closely with the Associate Director for Commercial Innovation and Head of IP Commercialisation to maximise the value and impact within the NHS hospitals rapid transformational environment to facilitate greater outcomes for patients and improved patient experience, driving value from commercialising commercial pipeline and portfolio.

The newly formed role within the Centre of Innovation, Transformation and Improvement involves strategic planning, developing and growing a team of Commercial Managers and Innovation Consultants, leadership and change management to enable a systematic solution within our organisation to create an innovation growth friendly ecosystem both within the Trust and between the Trust and our academic and industry partners.

Main duties of the job







The role will report into the Associate Director for Commercial Innovation and will oversee the following areas within the commercial development team function:

- Optimising Commercial partnerships portfolio: building upon our relationships with commercial partners, negotiating and executing commercial agreements with external collaborators and industry partners, and aligning results to the strategic commercial business objectives of the Trust and our product development pipeline.
- Technology co-development and adoption: Management of the Innovation Consulting team, overseeing clear, user friendly technology adoption pathways by coordinating internal functions across different teams,





to maximise engagement and generation of collaboration with industry and internally generated problem exploration and resolution in codeveloping new solutions through partnerships with industry. Managing our team of Innovation Consultants; enhancing internal and external relationships with internal clinical teams, alongside external academic and industry partners.

Full details available in the Job Description and Person Specifications document.

Working for our organisation

The Centre for Innovation, Transformation and Improvement (CITI) at Guy’s and St Thomas’s was founded in 2021 under the Deputy Chief Executive (DCE).

The DCE is the Executive Director responsible for leading and developing the Trust’s strategy for innovation and improvement,





which aims to develop an ecosystem that encourages the acceleration of new knowledge and capabilities and learn from best practices globally, to deliver improvements in patient care at scale. CITI co-locates multi-faceted teams to provide the focal point for clinical innovators and services seeking to translate ideas or early stage products or improvements into clinical practice. The Centre aims both to incubate and deliver innovations and improvement ideas, projects and programmes, working alongside and for its clinical customers for the benefit of patients.

CITI builds on industry best practice in taking innovation from concept to practice. It aims to foster a culture of innovation and improvement throughout the Trust, and acts as the intellectual home of our core improvement methodologies.

CITI aims to improve the rate of adoption of new clinical technologies with an agile operational model, delivering a data-driven approach to evaluating performance of novel technologies, creating a sustainable culture of innovation in clinical and operational workforce, and to build enduring partnerships with academia, industry, investors and key NHS Stakeholders.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Mark Gladman Job title Associate Director Commercial Innovation Email address ************@gstt.nhs.uk

▶️ Head of Innovation Business Development
🖊️ Education Centre
📍 London