Deputy Director of R&I Operations and Performance

Exciting, newly created, opportunity in the advancement of care for children and young people with complex health needs

Salary: Band 9   

Location: London

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions. Since its formation in 1852, the hospital has been dedicated to children’s healthcare and to finding new and better ways to treat childhood illnesses.

GOSH receives nearly 300,000 patient visits (inpatient admissions or outpatient appointments) every year and there are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities providing the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. More than half of our patients come from outside London and GOSH is the largest paediatric centre in the UK for services including paediatric intensive care and cardiac surgery.

The UK’s only academic Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) specialising in paediatrics is a collaboration between GOSH and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, recently renewed for a further 5 years. This unique partnership enables tangible clinical research from bench to bedside that has already developed a number of new clinical treatments and techniques that are used around the world.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting time to join the GOSH Research and Innovation directorate which is undergoing a period of change under the leadership of a new Director who joined at the end of 2023 with ambitious plans for the future.

This is a newly created role that will be responsible for R&I Planning and Delivery and have oversight of operational delivery, performance and impact. Leveraging existing national infrastructure to develop an excellent translational ecosystem. They will be the next most senior member of the department, act as deputy and will be involved in all aspects of the running of the directorate.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the increasingly complex research budget and have an overview of all R&I planning and delivery resources and output across the organisation including:

• The NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre
• Innovation, including early-stage innovation and the Gene & Cell Therapy Service
• The NIHR GOSH Clinical Research Facility
• Non-medical research
• Core R&I infrastructure.

Candidates should demonstrate a strong track record in operational delivery of research projects, ideally with knowledge of working within a BRC, CRF or clinical trials setting. They will bring experience of leading change management and process improvement programmes and encourage a culture cohesive and integrated working across the directorate.

As an organisation that embraces diversity and treats everyone with understanding, dignity and compassion, equality of opportunity is a fundamental principle, and applications are therefore, encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds. 

For more information about this exceptional role, including details of how to apply and key recruitment dates, please visit www.odgers.com/92251 or contact us at hannah.wade@odgersberndtson.com quoting the reference 92251.

Closing date for applications is 12 noon Friday 27^th September.

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