Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive of Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley, you will be working across a highly complex set of relationships, challenges, and innovations to contribute to service transformation. You will be able to think laterally, build strong trusted relationships quickly, and work as a productive team member. You will have experience in leading teams operating in complex multi-stakeholder environments. In particular, the Chief Executive role is expected to: · Lead the overall organisational development in terms of culture, operating model and people of HIOTV to ensure it has the capacity and capability to fulfil its purpose. · Role model behaviours that live HIOTV's organisational values of collaboration, quality and impact; and encourage similar behaviours in colleagues. · Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal and development. · Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement; and offer support and guidance for others seeking advice. · Be the external ambassador of the organisation and feel comfortable working across a range of senior stakeholders across the Thames Valley and nationally.,

• Act as the Accountable Executive Officer for HIOTV in relation to leadership, budget, performance and delivery against HIOTVs three main commissions: from NHS England (focusing on core innovation activity); NHS England (focusing on the Patient Safety Collaborative); and the Office for Life Sciences (focusing on economic growth).
• Provide overall leadership for the organisation and ensure the purpose of HIOTV is met by leading a programme of work on behalf of our partners.
• Lead and support the senior management team of HIOTV in an effective way that enables colleagues to perform at their best
• Report to the Chair of HIOTV and the Board. Regularly review performance against agreed objectives and milestones.
• Is a company director of Accelerare, a company by limited guarantee that supports activities of HIOTV.
• Provide overall effective operational and strategic leadership for HIOTV.
• Work with the Chair and HIOTV Board to set a vision and strategy supporting the development and adoption of health innovation across the Thames Valley and wider NHS, and contribution of the NHS partners to economic growth.
• Lead an effective programme of work on behalf of our partners to deliver the HIOTV strategy.
• Act as HIOTV's lead for maintaining and developing strategic engagement - building relationships and leveraging the influence and advocacy of key local, regional and national individuals, organisations and networks, across all sectors within which the HINs operate.
• Establish clear objectives to implement the policy objectives of DHSC, NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences in relation to health innovation and economic growth.
• Agree plans and work programmes and meet the licence terms of the NHS England and Office for Life Sciences commissions.
• Oversee the delivery of analyses of NHS services and clinical pathways across HIOTV partners, real world analyses and complex programmes of change introducing health innovation and new pathways of care.
• Oversee HIOTV's information systems and work with the Thames Valley and Surrey Shared Care Record and Secure Data Environment to support implementation of programmes addressing the health and social care needs of the HIOTV population.
• Drive and coordinate annual business and performance monitoring processes including the annual objective setting for all programmes and enabling activities.
• Foster collaboration and joint ventures between stakeholders, using the expertise of each organisation and jointly investing in the development and evaluation of innovative products, services and service models.
• Act as HIOTV's representative on the Health Innovation Network, ensuring the views of HIOTV are fed into and reflected in national planning around shared projects and programmes of work.
• Support all parts of the healthcare system to develop and systematically implement approaches to adopt and spread proven innovation in order to address unwarranted clinical variation and implement evidence based best practice.
• Build strong internal and external relationships with senior stakeholders to explore and pursue mutually beneficial opportunities and deliver projects successfully. Work closely with the network of NHS and social care managerial and clinical leaders across the Thames Valley
• Build strong collaborations regionally and nationally to support innovators to create jobs and attract inward investment to the Thames Valley.
• Sustain and develop effective relationships with the HIOTV's external stakeholders such as the South-East regional office of NHS England, Office for Life Sciences, Department of Health and Social Care, National Institute for Health and Care Research [NIHR] infrastructure, other HINs, the Health Innovation Network, and other organisations nationally and internationally as required to deliver the objectives of HIOTV.
• Account for HIOTVs allocated budget, presenting regular financial management reports to the HIOTV Board and ensuring costs are contained within allocated budgets in accordance with the requirements set by the commissioners and the host organisation, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Review and own relevant organisational risks and works with the senior team, Board and host organisation to ensure all risks are mitigated.
• Formulating long-term, strategic plans which involve uncertainty and which may impact across the whole organisation.
• Accountability for the execution of significant policies and the development of services or policies that extend across or beyond the organisation.
• Accountability for financial governance across the organisation.
• Benchmark HIOTV against other HINs and ensure that HIOTVs activities are evidence-based and respond to national and regional NHS priority needs.
• Demonstrate strong leadership reflecting HIOTV's vision and values, modelling innovative approaches.
• Represent HIOTV nationally, regionally and locally, with a wide range of stakeholders and interested parties and be a visible public ambassador.
  
  Educated to Masters level with a relevant management or scientific qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuous professional development, Experience of working at a senior level in health service, local authority, academic, life science industry or related field
• Knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding, organisation and culture.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise around the work of Life Sciences industry and enterprise organisations
• An understanding of Higher Education Institutes work in Life Sciences research
• Understanding of contemporary health and social care strategy and policy agendas, life sciences and related enterprises
• Track record of successful transformational leadership in the implementation of complex organisational change. Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
• Experiences of collaborative work at regional and national level working across organisations and sectors
• Delivery of challenging objectives in complex multi-organisational environments
• Experience of/or understanding of the critical role of networks to drive, enable and support system-wide transformation
• Ability to present highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• Ability to motivate high-performing teams, mobilising individuals, and teams around shared goals
• Ability to build effective partnerships, common purpose, and shared understanding across a range of diverse and competing views
• Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of organisational risk management
• Knowledge of health research methods, and systems thinking
• Experience in managing budgets, Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with HIOTV and OUHFTs values and standards.
• Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgmental
• Helps and co-operates with colleagues
• Pro-active and takes responsibility
• Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
• Knowledge of innovation, service improvement, improvement science, transformation and change management tools and techniques for different scenarios.
• Strong leadership, management skills and high credibility developed through experience at a senior level working with or within large complex health care systems.
• Ability to influence and enable highly collaborative solutions whenever possible, recognising the competitive operating context., Ability to lead and inspire staff and stakeholders
• A visible accessible and accountable leader for staff and partners through systems leadership approaches
• Ability to form and sustain positive working relationships in the face of challenging, politically complex and sensitive circumstances
• Willing to listen, learn and take appropriate action
• Excellent oral and written skills with a wide range of strategic and senior stakeholders, and very varied audiences at all levels of seniority
• Excellent listener and a clear and consistent communicator with the ability to articulate a vision with compelling clarity and to switch between the significant detail and the big picture.
  
  Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley (HIOTV) is seeking an exceptional Chief Executive Officer to lead our organisation through its next phase of growth and impact.
As one of NHS England's 15 health innovation networks, we work across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West, Frimley and the wider Thames Valley to accelerate the adoption of proven innovation, improve patient outcomes, support economic growth and reduce health inequalities. This is a unique opportunity to lead an organisation operating at the interface of the NHS, academia, industry, local government and research. You will shape strategy, influence national policy, and work with senior leaders across the health and care system to bring innovative technologies, pathways and ways of working into everyday practice. Reporting to the Chair and Board, you will provide strategic and operational leadership, ensuring HIOTV continues to deliver outstanding results for NHS England, the Office for Life Sciences and our wider partners., Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley (HIOTV) works in partnership with the NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board, NHS provider trusts, universities, industry and patients across the Thames Valley region. For more than a decade we have supported NHS transformation through scaling innovation. We are one of 15 health innovation networks (HINs) across England commissioned by NHS England and the Government Office for Life Sciences.