Innovation Facilitators x2 United Kingdom
Job description
Full Time, Fixed Term Contract until 30/04/2025.
Part of the newly formed Warwick Innovation District, The West Midlands Health and Wellbeing Innovation Network identifies challenges in the NHS, finds innovators to solve those challenges and facilitates a product development process to test and implement solutions. We have recently been successful in gaining funding for several exciting new projects which means we are now ready to grow our team.
Working with a team of Innovation Managers, you will be involved in the design and delivery of programmes, events, workshops and sprints that will enable us to innovate in the health care sector. With experience of identifying suitable partners and suppliers, you will help us to scout for the organisations who can meet our challenges, screening and shortlisting as you create a continual pipeline.
You will draw on your experiences of designing and delivering events to organise workshops in a combination of physical and hybrid settings, creating materials that will help us facilitate techniques such as design thinking and product development to continually respond to the needs of participating businesses. Outputs from these workshops will then be recorded and converted into tangible outputs where you will provide support through market research, user testing and data analysis.
You will work with our database of innovative suppliers so a good grasp of Microsoft Office software and an understanding of how technology and digital approaches can deliver solutions will be required. A confident and clear communicator at all levels, you will be working with multiple stakeholders and will need to be able to work independently as well as part of a team. With an interest in innovation, you will ideally have worked in a healthcare setting and will understand the opportunities and technology that can be used to solve real world challenges.
If you would like to be part of a creative, innovative team who are helping to improve the health of the nation, we would love to hear from you.
To find out more or arrange an informal conversation about the role, please contact Joshua Dale: [email protected]
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Interview date: TBC.
Job Description
The West Midlands Health and Wellbeing Innovation Network (WMHWIN) runs a programme that identifies NHS challenges, finds innovators to solve those challenges and facilitates a product development process to test and implement solutions.
The WMHWIN works with a number of innovative NHS Trusts and regions to solve challenges along with corporate partners that form part of the healthcare supply chain. This role will design and facilitate discovery workshops to identify challenges, scout for innovative suppliers, run design sprints to realise concepts and guide businesses through full length innovation programmes with stakeholders ranging from senior NHS staff to early stage start-ups.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with the Innovation Manager to design programmes, workshops, sprints and events that enable innovation in the health care sector including:
- Identifying, onboarding and guiding relevant NHS challenge owners to craft challenges that can be solved through open innovation programmes using key account management techniques and adapting to work with clinical and technical stakeholders.
- Building a pipeline of businesses that solve challenges by scouting for innovative suppliers, running outreach communications campaigns, conducting screening calls with innovators and evaluating their potential to solve crafted challenges and continually combing the pipeline for additional opportunities.
- Designing and preparing workshop materials using digital authoring tools that work in a physical and digital event hybrid context using knowledge and experience with Audio Visual systems and collaboration software.
- Configuring, organising and set-up for physical workshops, facilities access and overall project support.
- Working with external organisations to build product pipelines and roadmaps with a view to testing, validating and iterating solutions for the healthcare market.
- Designing and facilitating innovation workshops using techniques ranging from Design thinking, Lean start-up, Systems Thinking and Product development. Building on a toolkit of innovation techniques to continually respond and adapt to the needs of programme participants.
- Gathering resources that enable businesses to validate their solutions such as data, insight and market research.
- Preparing and disseminating communication materials.
Due to funding resources we are recruiting for multiple Innovation Facilitator roles who will be involved in projects with a variety of healthcare partners. The roles are offered on a fixed term contract basis with a range of lengths.
To find out more about Warwick Innovation District and our projects visit: this website
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