Digital Transformation Associate (KTP Associate)

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and One Care under the UK Government sponsored Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme. The position is a 24-month fixed term contract, which includes management and business skills training provided by the national KTP programme and a further £2k per annum dedicated training budget tailored towards your personal development.

Responsibilities:

* Deliver the project in accordance with the requirements of the UKRI KTP programme.

* Develop a programme to evaluate technology and ways of working within the ‘living lab’ environment, with the goal of helping to mainstream well-evidenced innovation and tech solutions into people’s homes as well as local health and care services.

* Develop an understanding of national and international ways of delivering innovation in General Practice and to be able to translate this into innovative methodologies to be used locally and tailored to the real-world setting of GP practices.

* Develop a ‘real-world’ understanding of how General Practices operate, the difference between different types and their challenges and priorities.

* Ensure that new technologies meet interoperability requirements, drawing health and care providers into closer alignment, rather than further apart, and avoiding the creation of digital siloes.

* Stakeholder engagement with GP practice staff is a crucial part of the project; demonstrating diplomacy, good people skills, and the ability to negotiate with a range of professionals when delivering this role, whilst showing awareness of different types of roles in a General Practice, type of care they offer and pressures they might experience in their work.

* Develop a toolbox for supporting hesitant or unconfident Practice staff, supporting them to understand and confidently engage with digital transformation.

* Demonstrate an aptitude, and enthusiasm for promoting and understanding the behaviour change in Practice staff, especially among technology-hesitant Practices.

* Manage communications across the wider KTP team within UWE, One Care and NHS partners.

* Where required and appropriate, represent and promote One Care and UWE at a local, regional and national levels.

* Develop and maintain effective links with relevant NHS, NHS support organisations, and academic groups.

* Present information, including material of a specialist nature to a range of different audiences. This may include making presentations at conferences.

* Comply with the University’s equal opportunities policy and use this role to promote equal opportunity wherever possible.

* Take responsibility of your own health and safety and comply with rules and guidance relating to health and safety matters.

* Any other reasonable duties that fall within the scope of the post, as allocated by the line manager, following consultation with the post holder.

With specialist support from the academic team at UWE Bristol, you will lead on a 24-month project where you will address challenges in implementing remote patient monitoring. This will help General Practices rapidly detect changes in patients’ health, reduce the need for travel, empower self-care, and increase care efficiency while reducing clinician workloads. By undertaking this role, you will help One Care to implement the ‘3 shifts’ which will form the future of health and care: ‘hospital to community’, ‘analogue to digital’ and ‘treatment to prevention’.