Head of Insight & Evidence

• Securing, designing, managing and delivering high quality funded projects that bring fresh perspectives to pressing challenges within health and care. This post will identify and deploy appropriate approaches including, but not limited to, quantitative and qualitative social research methods. • Leading activity to ensure that Qs collaborative improvement services (such as Q Labs or Quality Management Systems) are informed by the best available evidence and insight. This will include developing theories of change, synthesising shifts in the policy landscape, and drawing on a wide range of practice knowledge, lived experience and existing academic evidence. • Providing thought leadership for various aspects of improvement in health and care and communicating insights to internal and external audiences. This will include producing formal outputs in a wide range of written and spoken formats and more informal opportunities for sharing and influencing with Qs stakeholders. • Working with Qs leadership team to establish an appropriate evaluation approach overall for Q and for specific projects. Embedding data capture and analysis throughout a project cycle and synthesising evaluation findings to inform continuous improvement. • Supporting the team to continuously learn and improve in a way that is proportionate to available resources, purposeful, collaborative, and inclusive. Embedding a range of quantitative and qualitative methods into Qs work and coaching team members to undertake insight and evaluation activities. • Contributing insight and evaluation data to regular performance and planning processes. Reporting evaluation findings to Qs senior leadership team and wider stakeholders including our funders, partners, and Advisory Group. • Building strong strategic partnerships with others across the health and care system including other parts of NHS Alliance, Q members, policy makers, practitioners, and academics. This will include forming productive collaborations with other individuals or organisations that may jointly deliver contracted services with Q. • Ensuring Qs commitment to equality, diversity and inclusivity is embedded and progressed through the content and conduct of all of our insight and evaluation work Job description Job responsibilities • Securing, designing, managing and delivering high quality funded projects that bring fresh perspectives to pressing challenges within health and care. This post will identify and deploy appropriate approaches including, but not limited to, quantitative and qualitative social research methods. • Leading activity to ensure that Qs collaborative improvement services (such as Q Labs or Quality Management Systems) are informed by the best available evidence and insight. This will include developing theories of change, synthesising shifts in the policy landscape, and drawing on a wide range of practice knowledge, lived experience and existing academic evidence. • Providing thought leadership for various aspects of improvement in health and care and communicating insights to internal and external audiences. This will include producing formal outputs in a wide range of written and spoken formats and more informal opportunities for sharing and influencing with Qs stakeholders. • Working with Qs leadership team to establish an appropriate evaluation approach overall for Q and for specific projects. Embedding data capture and analysis throughout a project cycle and synthesising evaluation findings to inform continuous improvement. • Supporting the team to continuously learn and improve in a way that is proportionate to available resources, purposeful, collaborative, and inclusive. Embedding a range of quantitative and qualitative methods into Qs work and coaching team members to undertake insight and evaluation activities. • Contributing insight and evaluation data to regular performance and planning processes. Reporting evaluation findings to Qs senior leadership team and wider stakeholders including our funders, partners, and Advisory Group. • Building strong strategic partnerships with others across the health and care system including other parts of NHS Alliance, Q members, policy makers, practitioners, and academics. This will include forming productive collaborations with other individuals or organisations that may jointly deliver contracted services with Q. • Ensuring Qs commitment to equality, diversity and inclusivity is embedded and progressed through the content and conduct of all of our insight and evaluation work