Partnerships Director

Full-time or part-time (minimum 0.8 FTE), permanent

AUGUST 2021

Overview

Do you have a track record developing commercial partnerships that deliver sustained impact? Do you share our belief that we can accelerate them impact of our work through strategic partnerships with organisations that share our ambition to improve health equity through innovation?

In 2013 a small group of founding member organisations established the South West Academic Health Science Network. They were motivated by a shared ambition to accelerate the adoption and spread of innovation across our region to improve population health and generate economic growth.

Step forward eight years and that ambition has become a reality. Working in collaboration with the AHSNs across England, our work transforms lives through innovation.

In the last year, our work as a network of AHSNs has benefited over 258,000 people and leveraged over £462m of investment into the health and life science sector. You can read more about the impact of our work nationally in our latest AHSN Network impact report and regional work in our annual review.

At the South West AHSN we focus our efforts on improving health equity – identifying and spreading innovative practice that helps close health equity gaps in access to care, quality of care, opportunity for a healthy life and agency in managing individual health.

Working with our members and partners, we share the ambition and opportunity to improve health equity through the adoption and spread of innovative practice.

We do this by:

• Spreading innovative practice across the health and care system through collaboration, practical support and knowledge sharing.

• Building capability in our region to spread innovative practice and improve quality.

• Supporting evaluation and application of learning to improve the delivery of health and care services.

Our Partnerships Director will play a central role in helping us to achieve our ambition. We are looking for someone who shares our passion to build partnerships that will accelerate and increase our impact on health equity. Being a practical, commercially adept and engaging leader, you will be part of an organisation that believes in the value of collaboration as the route to improving population health.