Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing: Centre Manager

The Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing, hosted at Whipps Cross Hospital, is anchored to the Barts Health ambition to transform Whipps Cross to become a world class centre of excellence, leveraging academic collaborations with Queen Mary University London and other partners to achieve outstanding care and support patients within North East London to live healthier lives for longer.

While the NHS has implemented policy and practice changes to improve care and support provision, there are gaps in research and knowledge that hinder the effectiveness of these changes. To help address these gaps, ACHA is taking a unique and innovative approach by placing research on the front line of local health and care services to create a ‘living laboratory’.

This approach will bring together frontline experience and ‘real-world’ situations with academic research to improve understanding of the specific needs of local populations and develop targeted interventions and services accordingly.

In this interim role, responsible to the ACHA Director, the post holder will help to deliver the vision for ACHA; acting as the first point of contact for all research and education activities of the Centre and working closely with the wider team of managers, academics and clinicians to provide leadership and management of the Centre and deliver the fundamental objectives of the ACHA Strategic Plan.

To thrive in this role, the post holder will be expected to have a good understanding of how health research funding works and experience of working in a research funding environment and/or health and care service environment. You will be solution focussed, with an organised and adaptable approach and be able to quickly understand complex concepts.

The post holder will be expected to be motivated and have excellent inter-personnel skills to engage with senior academic and clinical staff and professional service colleagues to understand their goals, challenges and help address them.

In return we offer an excellent learning environment, with opportunities to develop your career in a collaborative, pioneering and dynamic team. This is a unique opportunity to put your strategic management skills into practice to help to make a real difference to people’s lives across north east London and beyond.

The role will be predominantly office-based, with some home working and involve travel across London.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lauren Ellis Job title: ACHA Director Email address: [email protected]