Job Specifications
About The Role
For informal enquiries, please contact Charlotte Kershaw (Central England Health Partners Head of Programmes) Charlotte.kershaw@warwick.ac.uk
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Central England Health Partners is a new academic-health partnership for Coventry and Warwickshire, whose mission is to work together and in collaboration with our community to drive impactful solutions and transformative change to improve health outcomes and care for all.
The CEHP Project Officer joins as the partnership is launching - this is a rare opportunity to support the definition and success of a new initiative in healthcare innovation. A key member of a small and focused core team, the CEHP Project Officer's remit will include curating CEHP communications for both internal and external audiences, supporting with identification and development of collaborative funding opportunities, delivering impactful events, and supporting governance of the partnership. This is a varied role with the potential for significant impact.
Please note that some CEHP meetings (including all of the Board meetings) take place during evenings, so some out of normal hours working will be required.
About You
You will have a passion for health improvement, and an interest in the role that research and innovation play in driving these improvements. You will thrive in a complex environment, dealing with multiple stakeholders and project workstreams. Collaboration and relationship-building will be key: Experience working in a university, healthcare, or innovation setting would be particularly beneficial in enabling you to navigate and coordinate across sectors. A key part of the role will be curation of the external face of the partnership, showcasing partner strengths, successes, and opportunities for collaboration, and an interest in, or experience of, communication of this sort would be valuable.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
About The Department
Central England Health Partners is currently hosted by the University of Warwick. Further information about the partnership and founding partners can be found at: https://warwick.ac.uk/business/innovation-commercialisation/healthinnovation/partners/cehp
The University of Warwick is a powerhouse in science, technology, engineering, and medicine, renowned for its excellence in teaching (TEF Gold) and a strong commitment to innovation and real-world impact.
Our vibrant health research community includes over 100 principal investigators leading cutting-edge programmes across a wide range of disciplines: from life sciences and medicine to medical device engineering and policy change.
We work in close partnership with NHS trusts, with 30 clinical academics co-delivering research that informs patient care, service delivery, and population health. Areas of clinical research strength include reproductive medicine, trauma & orthopaedics, emergency and critical care, psychiatry and public health. Our innovative graduate entry medicine programme is the largest in the UK and trains around 200 "Warwick Doctors" each year.
Warwick's International Reputation For Interdisciplinary Research Is Driven By a Network Of University-wide Centres Focused On Key Health Challenges, Including
Infectious Disease Research
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Through Warwick Innovations, the University has supported the creation of over 100 spin-out companies, with a third of the active portfolio focused on health technologies and services. Our Institute of Translational Medicine fosters a dynamic ecosystem that links scientific discovery, pre-clinical research, clinical trials, and healthcare delivery--ensuring that innovation moves seamlessly from bench to bedside.
The Medical School and University exist within a local, regional, national and international health and care diaspora with excellent inter-institutional links, partnerships and relationships. The connections stretch across academia, industry and the NHS, with a particular strength in our local health eco-system with our local NHS trusts. The strong and effective relationships that we have established support our excellent teaching, research, innovation and broader educational and academic activities and enable new and existing activities to be undertaken to the highest of standards.
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