Delivery Manager NIA

Delivery Manager

About the NHS Innovation Accelerator

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is an award-winning national NHS England (NHSE) initiative in partnership with England’s 15 Health Innovation Networks (HINs). Delivered by UCLPartners, the programme supports committed individuals (‘Fellows’) to scale high impact, evidence-based innovations across the NHS and wider healthcare system. The programme is chaired by the National Medical Director for NHS England, and supported across senior leadership. The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) exists to accelerate the uptake of high-impact, evidence-based innovations across the NHS and wider health and care system.

Sitting at the intersection of health, innovation, and systems, we connect innovators with NHS stakeholders and decision-makers to unlock scalable solutions. Through tailored support, expert mentoring, and shared learning, we help overcome barriers to adoption and embed innovation where it’s needed most.

Our mission is to drive meaningful change by improving patient outcomes, supporting workforce sustainability, and enabling a more efficient, collaborative system that learns from what works and scales it effectively.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a 12-month maternity cover role at the NIA. As a delivery manager, you will be the primary contact point and problem solver for our fellows and our system partners. You will work with our HIN, ICB, Trust and wider system stakeholders in the East of England, London, South East, and South West regions to match-make NIA fellows to strategic system priorities, unblock barriers to adoption and work together to create joint opportunities to showcase NIA fellows and the programme.

You will work with our new and existing cohort of fellows, getting to know their innovations as well as their challenges. You will be responsible for managing relationships and being the single point of contact for our HIN partners, also getting to know their priorities, ways of working and challenges.

You will also be responsible for a number of internal projects, including the digitisation of our programme, and the onboarding journey of our new cohort.

You will manage the delivery and relationship building through your creativity, operational effectiveness and experience of innovation adoption in complex environments. You are results driven and clearly focused on patient and system impact.

The role is an outstanding opportunity to have real impact on health and healthcare in supporting the NHS and the Fellows with adoption and scale.

Key Responsibilities

• To work closely with managers in implementation, commercial and innovation in 7 HINs, key ICB’s and strategic trusts.


• To act as a single point of contact within the NHS system and build on strong relationships to collectively help scale solutions & innovations


• Work closely with system partners alongside the Co Directors on prioritization of innovations


• Investigate potential funding opportunities for Fellows to help them further scale and spread their innovations within trusts/ICSs


• Plan, manage, and deliver regional and local innovation exchange events


• To work closely with colleagues in the NIA team to support an engaging and impact driven culture


• To work collaboratively across the NIA team, adopting a one-team approach to meeting our objectives.


• Manage and drive internal projects, including programme improvement and digitisation.
  

You

• Have successfully managed NHS-based adoption or business cases digital health innovations (essential)


• Subject matter understanding on digital health, medical devices, and software as a medical device (essential)


• Clear understanding of Health Innovation Network and ICB/Trust Innovation pathways and systems (essential)


• Outstanding relationship management skills


• Commercial acumen, and key understanding of NHS funding flows


• Experience working with small – large innovators to help them scale their solutions in the NHS


• Experience managing and implementing change, innovation or transformation in healthcare


• Ability to convey complex and challenging issues to stakeholders in science and healthcare and more widely across academia, the NHS and government.


• Ability to collaborate with and influence a wide range of individuals and groups in professionally based organisations


• A strong commitment to diverse and inclusive teams and principles.


• Understanding of the role and remit of the NHS; awareness of relevant NHS policy; and understanding of the importance of both clinical and research governance in clinical service delivery.

We offer flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working at UCLPartners. All staff will typically spend a minimum of 40% of their working time at the UCLPartners office i.e. for a minimum of 2 days/week if full-time or 40% of your working time for part-time staff. This can be averaged over a 3-month period.

As part of our benefits package, employees are entitled to 27 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), company pension (employer contribution 10% of annual salary), life assurance coverage, cycle to work scheme, travel season ticket loans and flexible working.

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Closing date: 10th July 2026 - midday

*Please note we may close job adverts early, even when there’s a published deadline, so if you are keen, please apply as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and a sense of belonging; and for our work to help tackle wider health inequalities. Read more about our approach. UCLPartners is committed to equal opportunities and all people acting on its behalf must perform their duties in a manner that supports and promotes this commitment.

We welcome applications from candidates who are neurodiverse, have a disability or long-term health condition.

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