South Central RRDN - Research Specialty Leads
Job overview
South Central RRDN is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
We welcome applications from all relevant professional groups (across health and care) within each speciality.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for two collaborative, ambitious and partnership focused senior leaders to join us as Specialty Leads for our new South Central Regional Research Delivery Network. We are specifically looking for leads in Ear, Nose & Throat and Renal.
In your specialty area, you will provide the vital link between the regional and national networks of expertise, which is essential to the success of the RDN.
We welcome applications from all relevant professional groups (across health and care) within each specialty. We are committed to providing a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity that attracts, supports, and retains the best students and staff from all backgrounds and from across the world.Whatever role we recruit for we are always striving to increase the diversity of our community, which each individual helps enrich and cultivate.
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
South Central RRDN employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 20% lower than London and 14 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Specialty Leads must be facilitative, be able to work flexibly and effectively in a developing organisation. You will be able to motivate and support others to deliver measurable results that make the NIHR RDN vision a reality. As a senior leader within the RRDN, you will be able to act as an advocate and champion - showing credibility amongst peers by actively being involved in the recruitment of participants.
You will play a vital role in leading and supporting the successful delivery of high-quality research in your speciality area, as an active partner in the research system, to increase capacity and capability of the research infrastructure for the future.As a result, research will reach more people, address changing population needs, support the health and care system and the economy, and become a routine part of care - for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy.
This is an exciting time for UK research and we want to make the UK the best place in the world for commercial companies to bring new treatments and technologies, so these roles are critical to our success in the south central region - and nationally.
You will:
- Be able to evidence clinical (includes all health professions), social care, or public health professional status and be an acknowledged local opinion leader within your relevant specialty, with a breadth of appropriate knowledge.
- Have experience of leading regionally in your relevant specialty area, developing that specialty collaboratively with patients and the public, and other stakeholders and establishing and sustaining outstanding service and a high-performance management culture.
- Bring knowledge of national and regional systems, structures and processes for supporting health and care research delivery.
- Demonstrate highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate priorities, and effectively engage and influence others at all levels internally and externally, including through presentations and public speaking.
Additional Information
For a full list of specialities - and their national leads - please visit: [...]
Please see the attached Candidate Brief for further information including the job description and person specification.
If you would like an informal conversation on the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] in the UHS Senior Appointments Team or Mark Dolman, Operations Director for South Central RRDN on [email protected]
Alternatively, if you’re ready to apply, please follow the link below. Please submit an Expression of Interest and a short CV setting out your skills and experience for the speciality area/s you wish to apply for.
Closing date is Sunday 6 April 2025
Interviews are planned for late April / early May 2025
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential criteria- Be able to evidence clinical (includes all health professions), social care, or public health professional status, for example by being registered (if appropriate) on the GMC Specialist Register, GMC General Practice register, NMC register, HCPC UK register, Social Work England register or relevant professional register
- Be an acknowledged local opinion leader within the relevant specialty, with a breadth of appropriate knowledge.
- Experience of leading regionally in the relevant Specialty area, developing that Specialty collaboratively with patients and the public, and other stakeholders and establishing and sustaining outstanding service and a high-performance management culture.
- Experience of delivering research as an Investigator in the relevant Specialty area and excellent general research delivery expertise.
- Knowledge of national and regional systems, structures and processes for supporting health and care research delivery.
- Evidence of motivating, supporting and coaching colleagues.
- The ability to work collaboratively, with evidence of successfully developing and maintaining effective working relationships with a range of internal and external partners and stakeholders.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate priorities, and effectively engage and influence others at all levels internally and externally, including through presentations and public speaking.
- Highly developed emotional intelligence and resilience and the ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous and uncertain environment.
- Strong team player with the ability to act as a good citizen within the network representing a diversity of views.
- Politically astute and sensitive to the priorities and dynamics of a complex organisation.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
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