Job Specification and Terms & Conditions
Job Title & Grade
Grade VII Innovation Lead
Campaign Reference
RQ100
Closing Date
Thursday Feb 20th 2025
Location of Post
Peamount Healthcare, Newcastle, Co. Dublin
Details of Service
Peamount Healthcare is an independent voluntary organisation that provides a range of high-quality health and social care services. We help people return home after serious illness, we provide safe and homely residential care for those who need it, and we support people to live as independently as possible in the community.
Purpose of Post
The Innovation Lead is responsible for the development and delivery of innovation in collaboration with all staff members.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Innovation Lead is responsible for the development and delivery of innovation in collaboration with all staff members.
The post holder will:
1. Design and lead projects and programmes of work that support health and care practitioners, including senior leaders and patients, to make progress on some of the most complex challenges facing the health care sector.
2. Have demonstrable skills and extensive experience in creative facilitation and working with groups and will use innovation and improvement methodologies to design and run activities that support stakeholders to deliver improvements in health and care.
3. Work through others, using people skills to influence, negotiate and inspire action.
4. Plan and manage multiple pieces of work, making strategic and operational decisions to ensure maximum learning and impact is achieved.
Collaboration & Participatory Design
1. Design, lead and run participatory activities, tailoring the approach to achieve the desired outputs.
2. Lead key programmes of work to support participants in the generation of ideas, prototyping and testing of ideas in practice.
3. Adopt a coaching and developmental approach, supporting stakeholders to learn and apply new techniques for tackling complex challenges.
Communication and stakeholder management
1. Generate interest and secure buy-in for the Lab’s portfolio of work from stakeholders.
2. Distil multiple sources of information and translate complicated messages.
Project management
1. Demonstrate excellent organisational, prioritisation and time-management skills.
2. Operate within established systems and processes to monitor and assess the progress of test sites and participants against agreed milestones.
Eligibility Criteria
1. Significant experience of service design and/or improvement approaches.
2. Achievement-oriented and results focused.
3. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
4. Strong project management and organisational skills.
Other requirements specific to the post
1. Actively support and coach team members to develop advanced capabilities in innovation.
2. Provide reporting and status updates about strands of work you are leading.
Confidentiality
In the course of your employment, you may have access to or hear information concerning the medical or personal affairs of patients and/or staff. Such records and information are strictly confidential.
Terms & Conditions of Employment
The current vacancy available is a Full time 2 year Specified Purpose basis. The post is pensionable.
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