Research Co-ordination Lead

1 day ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board Full time

Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board is seeking to recruit someone to lead the Research in Kent & Medway ICB. We are looking for an ambitious and driven Clinical Research and Innovation Lead to help us transform Kent & Medway ICB into a learning health and care system.

This role will work directly for the ICB Chief Medical Officer and is expected to work collaboratively with the ICB Deputy CMO, ICB Director of Strategy, Chief Clinical Information Officer, and other senior leads across the system. The role will include responsibility for supporting and increasing local research activity aligned to population health needs, developing systems and partnerships that widen research opportunities for the local system and ensuring the ICB can draw on the latest evidence and research to support its strategies and programmes.

**The key aspects of the role will be**:
Supporting relevant, local research activity

Agree the internal governance processes for supporting research and developing research and innovation partnerships

Develop a plan for supporting primary care, community and cross-system research

Setting the direction and attracting relevant local research and innovation
a) Develop a plan for influencing the direction of future local research and innovation initiatives by identifying and communicating the local priorities to relevant academic and other partners
b) Develop a local Trusted Research Environment (TRE) and a transparent process for accessing local data for research purposes
c) Build the partnerships and systems and processes that can support citizen research

Developing a system that enables evidence-informed decision making and quality improvement
a. Develop a plan for rapid evidence synthesis which can inform decision making
b. Invest into an analytics hub which can provide system intelligence and insights into the key system pressures
c. Develop a systematic way of learning from local research, innovations, and QI initiatives
d. Develop a Research, Innovation and QI Forum/Steering group
e. Develop a long-term set of partnerships with key researchers and innovators
f. Develop the governance structure to create a learning system that supports research, innovation, QI and, ultimately, evidence and data-informed decision making

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.



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