The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute) seeks an exceptional individual to provide senior academic leadership in the evaluation of complex interventions and programmes to improve care. Funded by the Health Foundation, THIS Institute aims to create a world-leading scientific asset for the NHS by strengthening the evidence-base for improving the quality and safety of healthcare. The Institute hosts around 55 staff and students, and works with a diverse range of collaborators across multiple sectors to deliver high quality, high impact and innovative programmes of research.
An established academic leader with a strong quantitative skills, a specialism in survey methodologies and the ability to collaborate effectively in mixed-methods, multidisciplinary studies , you will have a strategically important role in THIS Institute. With responsibility for designing and directing high impact evaluations of improvement initiatives across healthcare sectors, you will ensure coherence, focus and dialogue across existing and new projects. You will be experienced in supervising interdisciplinary teams and capable of forging effective strategic partnerships with a range of stakeholders, including NHS organisations, patient and public groups, and charitable and civil society organisations. You will identify and secure sources of funding in addition to the core funding of THIS institute, ensuring coherence, focus and dialogue across the institute’s portfolio.
You must have a PhD (or equivalent) and be a recognised leader in evaluation of complex interventions. While your experience to date may be outside healthcare research (e.g. in fields such as education, social care, public services, criminology or others), you will be a skilled quantitative researcher with a strong track record in leading large, complex research programmes and delivering them on time, to budget and to an excellent standard of scholarship. You will have a record of income generation, publications and impact, excellent analytical and communication skills, and the ability to work at pace across a wide variety of topics and activities. You will be an excellent team-player with a strong sense of mission, superb written and oral communication skills, and the ability to command credibility with external stakeholders, including NHS colleagues.
Funds for this post are available for five years in the first instance. The post holder will be based at THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 5 years in the first instance.
Closing Date: 5 September 2022
Interview Date: TBC
The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute) seeks an exceptional individual to provide senior academic leadership in the evaluation of complex interventions and programmes to improve care. Funded by the Health Foundation, THIS Institute aims to create a world-leading scientific asset for the NHS by strengthening the evidence-base for improving the quality and safety of healthcare. The Institute hosts around 55 staff and students, and works with a diverse range of collaborators across multiple sectors to deliver high quality, high impact and innovative programmes of research.
An established academic leader with a strong quantitative skills, a specialism in survey methodologies and the ability to collaborate effectively in mixed-methods, multidisciplinary studies, you will have a strategically important role in THIS Institute. With responsibility for designing and directing high impact evaluations of improvement initiatives across healthcare sectors, you will ensure coherence, focus and dialogue across existing and new projects. You will be experienced in supervising interdisciplinary teams and capable of forging effective strategic partnerships with a range of stakeholders, including NHS organisations, patient and public groups, and charitable and civil society organisations. You will identify and secure sources of funding in addition to the core funding of THIS institute, ensuring coherence, focus and dialogue across the institute’s portfolio.
You must have a PhD (or equivalent) and be a recognised leader in evaluation of complex interventions. While your experience to date may be outside healthcare research (e.g. in fields such as education, social care, public services, criminology or others), you will be a skilled quantitative researcher with a strong track record in leading large, complex research programmes and delivering them on time, to budget and to an excellent standard of scholarship. You will have a record of income generation, publications and impact, excellent analytical and communication skills, and the ability to work at pace across a wide variety of topics and activities. You will be an excellent team-player with a strong sense of mission, superb written and oral communication skills, and the ability to command credibility with external stakeholders, including NHS colleagues.
Funds for this post are available for five years in the first instance. The post holder will be based at THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Closing date: 5th September 2022
Interview Date: TBC
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