UCL Partners

Chair – UCLPartners

hollyw — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:59:05 +0000

Contract: 3 year appointment
Closing Date: Friday 21 June 2013
Salary: Non-FT Chair

UCLPartners is recruiting an exceptional leader to ensure the delivery of our mission, support our partnerships and safeguard our values. Our recent AHSN designation brings broader reach and delivery capacity making this a unique opportunity to improve the health of the population we serve.

The core responsibility of the Board of UCLPartners and each of its Directors is to provide effective guidance and leadership, ensuring the delivery of UCLPartners’ overall purpose and mission and through programmes of work and at all times ensuring consistency with our values and model of working. The responsibility of the Chair is to provide visible leadership in the development and maintenance of a positive culture, standards and values for UCLPartners.

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How to apply: Candidates wishing to apply should submit by email a CV and covering letter to applications@uclpartners.com by the closing date.

Sir Cyril Chantler is the current Chair of UCLPartners. This post has been advertised following Sir Cyril’s decision to retire in 2014.

Recruitment Consultant – Corporate Team

hollyw — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:56:56 +0000

Contract: 12 months fixed term appointment, full time
Closing Date: Wednesday 3 July 2013
Salary: £40,000 to £60,000 per annum

UCLPartners is seeking to appoint an experienced and talented Recruitment Consultant on a fixed term basis to develop, lead and implement the programme of recruitment within the company. This will entail designing assessment centres for roles at a senior level and running recruitment campaigns for our programmes such as London Cancer, Integrated Cardiovascular and Integrated Mental Health.

By managing the recruitment and selection process from end to end, the post holder will work closely with directors and managers to determine their current and future recruitment needs. Although the main focus of the role will be to deliver the company’s recruitment strategy, the post holder will also provide generalist HR advice to directors when required and develop and roll out policies/guidance within the organisation.

The post holder will have a CIPD qualification, demonstrable experience of recruitment and selection in a complex environment and a psychometric testing qualification. Strong leadership and problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to build credibility quickly with busy managers are key to the success of this role. A resilient and flexible approach is also essential.

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How to apply: Candidates wishing to apply should submit by email a CV and covering letter to applications@uclpartners.com by the closing date.

For further information about the role please, please contact Rebecca Graham, HR Director, on 020 3108 2322.

UCLPartners programme director awarded knighthood in Queen’s birthday honours

rachel — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:04:32 +0000

UCLPartners is pleased to report that consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Professor Peng Tee Khaw, has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours for services to ophthalmology.

Based at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Professor Khaw is an internationally-renowned surgeon and one of the world’s leading eye and vision scientists. He specialises in paediatric and complex adult glaucoma treatment and is Professor of glaucoma and ocular healing at UCL’s Institute of Ophthalmology.

Professor Khaw is leading UCLPartners’ Academic Health Science Centre programme in eyes and vision, aiming to discover new treatments and put research findings into practice to improve care for patients.

David Fish, Managing Director of UCLPartners said: “We are delighted at Professor Khaw’s knighthood. Following so many achievements, this recognition is well deserved. He is a tireless researcher and ambassador for innovation in eye care and his work with UCLPartners is invaluable.”

More information on Professor Khaw and his knighthood can be found on the Moorfields Eye Hospital website.

UCL researchers are unravelling the process for the spread of cancer

rachel — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:40:39 +0000

Time projection of a time-lapse movie showing coordinated migration of Neural crest cells (blue) and placodes (magenta)
Credit: Theveneau and Mayor

A mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body – called ‘chase and run’ – has been described for the first time by scientists at UCL. Published in Nature Cell Biology, the new study focuses on the process that occurs when cancer cells interact with healthy cells in order to migrate around the body during metastasis.

Scientists know that cancer cells recruit healthy cells and use them to travel long distances, but how this process takes place and how it could be controlled to design new therapies against cancer remains unknown.

Now, using embryonic cells called ‘neural crest cells’ (which are similar to cancer cells in term of their invasive behaviour) and placode cells which are the precursors for cranial nerves (the equivalent to healthy cells) researchers at UCL have started to unravel this process.

Dr Roberto Mayor, UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and lead author of the research, said: “The findings suggest an alternative way in which cancer treatments might work in the future if therapies can be targeted at the process of interaction between malignant and healthy cells to stop cancer cells from spreading and causing secondary tumours.”

For further information about this study, which is funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, please visit UCL’s website.

Senior Information Analyst – London Cancer

hollyw — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:02:05 +0000

Contract: 6 months fixed term appointment, full time
Closing date: Monday 24 June 2013
Salary: £25,000 to £30,000 per annum pro rata

London Cancer, UCLPartners’ integrated cancer system, requires a senior information analyst with strong analytical and technical skills to manage information requirements for multiple health intelligence projects.

The post holder will work on the following:

Lead on information requirements and develop analysis in support of the Camden Clinical Commissioning Group project
Maintain and further develop the cancer pathway and board scorecards
Maintain London Cancer SQL data warehouse hosted by a partner trust, by uploading regular data feeds, checking for data quality and enable reporting from the warehouse
Help produce analysis for pathway boards in support of cancer service reconfiguration

The post holder will have excellent Microsoft Office skills and have experience of working with information systems in the NHS or private sector. SQL server experience is desirable. In addition he/she will be capable of using multiple datasets to produce analysis and reports to inform clinicians and operational personnel on healthcare intelligence.

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How to apply: Candidates wishing to apply should submit by email a CV and covering letter to applications@uclpartners.com by the closing date.

Education Fellow – Integrated Mental Health Programme

hollyw — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:56:33 +0000

Contract: 12 months fixed term appointment, full time
Closing date: Friday 28 June 2013
Salary: £40,000 to £55,000 per annum

UCLPartners’ Integrated Mental Health Programme is looking for an Educational Fellow to work alongside Prof. Geraldine Strathdee and Prof. Peter Fonagy to develop a professional education programme as part of the Integrated Mental Health Programme, UCLPartners.

The post holder will be supported to build on and develop the successful ‘High Impact Education & Training’ programme, which is a ‘whole systems’ approach to developing and delivering professional education within the field of mental health, aiming to build the capacity to improve mental health outcomes, improve services, enable implementation of best practice and inform mental health commissioning.

The programme will work across the whole care pathway (primary care, commissioning, acute care and community, as well as in the field of mental health) and target different parts of the multi-disciplinary team. They will be directly involved in the development of materials, as well as being supported to form, manage and draw on expertise from specially created expert reference groups to support delivery.

The post holder will have the opportunity for further personal development within UCLPartners and will join a growing team of fellows working on improvement science, quality and education across a wide variety of sectors within the health system.

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How to apply: Candidates wishing to apply should submit by email a CV together with covering letter (2 pages maximum) explaining:

1. The role of professional education in mental health as you understand it

2. An example of an educational programme or course you have been involved in developing and delivering

3. Why this role appeals to you and how it fits in with your career aspirations

For further information about the role please contact Dr Anna Moore

Reflections on the 2013 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

hollyw — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:01:24 +0000

Date: Tuesday 25 June 2013
Time: 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Boardroom, UCLPartners, 3^rd floor, 170 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7HA

This event is for CEOs, medical and nursing directors and front line clinicians with an interest in change and improvement. You are invited to a social evening with colleagues for a discussion over wine and cheese.

An overview of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and BMJ 2013 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare will be presented by Director of Quality, James Mountford and Improvement Advisor, Charlotte Hopkins. The aim is to stimulate a discussion and generate ideas centering on shared learning from the event and how this can be translated into quality improvement initiatives across our partnership.

Places are limited, so if you are interested in attending please register by clicking here.

Click here to visit the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare website

Transformation Leads – Specialist Heart Centre

hollyw — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:14:21 +0000

Contract: 18 months fixed term appointment
Closing date: Friday 5 July 2013
Salary: Up to 2 PAs per week

UCLPartners is seeking transformation leads for the eight clinical and two cross-cutting workstreams within the proposed specialist heart centre.

These workstreams are:

Clinical

Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)
Cardiac Anaesthetics and Critical Care
Cardiac Rhythm Management
Cardiovascular surgery
Heart Failure
Inherited Cardiac Disease
General/Interventional Cardiology
Cardiovascular imaging

Cross-cutting

Training
Clinical Cardiovascular Research

Trust boards at two major teaching hospitals – University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and Barts Health NHS Trust, and the senior team at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, have shown their commitment to a proposed new specialist heart centre embedded within a partnership-wide cardiovascular system. Clinicians are working together across the partnership to develop proposals to improve outcomes for patients with heart disease.

If approved – following a public, staff and stakeholder engagement process – specialist cardiovascular services will move from UCLH’s Heart Hospital to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in late 2014. Also supported by Queen Mary’s, University of London (QMUL) and UCL, this development will create a clinical and academic centre of excellence that will save lives, improve outcomes for patients, deliver better value for the taxpayer and contribute to our global competitiveness in life sciences.

This is an opportunity to lead into this change for the following reasons:

1. A unique population – a unique opportunity

The population served by UCLPartners is uniquely varied in terms of ethnicity and deprivation with high levels of unmet cardiovascular need. We have the opportunity to bring the best in cardiovascular medicine and research to the people that need it the most and to ensure that we offer best value care for patients across the entire course of their medical condition.

2. A strong clinical and academic base to build on

Cardiovascular clinical and academic services across UCLPartners are already very strong. Across the medical and surgical specialities some of the highest quality outcomes are delivered e.g. some of the best times to treatment and outcomes for heart attack patients in the UK, highest levels of appropriate device implantation in the country. Heart Failure patients receive above average care. We lead nationally in inherited cardiac diseases and adult congenital heart disease. UCL is in the top ten most productive cardiovascular publishers in the world 2006-12, with QMUL 15th.

3. Huge potential benefits from integration

All the clinical and academic service lines see significant benefits from integration of services. Together, UCLPartners’ universities would rank in the top five most productive cardiovascular publishers. Our services together would be the largest adult congenital heart disease unit in the world and the largest in the UK for cardiovascular imaging, inherited cardiac disease, cardiac intervention and electrophysiology. All this offers the opportunity to bring the benefits of critical mass to our patients.

4. Additional benefits from co-localisation

Several groups point out the additional benefits from co-localisation of some cardiovascular services over and above those acquired from creating a ‘virtual’ UCLPartners cardiovascular centre by service integration. (e.g. an advanced heart failure unit, a centre for inherited cardiac disease and a centre for adult congenital heart disease). In addition to clinical co-localisation, there are great opportunities for enhanced research and wealth creation from the creation of clinical and academic shared space on a single campus.

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How to apply: Candidates wishing to apply should submit by email a CV and covering letter, stating which workstream they are applying for, to applications@uclpartners.com by the closing date.

London Cancer public engagement event

hollyw — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:27:00 +0000

Date: Wednesday 26 June 2013
Time: 4-7pm
Venue: Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6HG

Come along to find out more about London Cancer’s objectives and achievements since its launch in 2012.

The event will feature a welcome from Pelham Allen, Chair of the London Cancer Board, information stalls, presentations from cancer pathway leaders and group discussions.

To register for this event please click here

UCLPartners welcomes The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to its Academic Health Science Partnership

rachel — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:22:03 +0000

The Board of UCLPartners welcomes the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as a member of UCLPartners’ Academic Health Science Partnership. The School will work alongside other leading higher education institutions Queen Mary, University of London, and UCL as an academic partner to translate cutting edge research and innovation into measurable health and wealth gain for patients and populations.

As a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine brings significant academic strength to the partnership, particularly in population health research, infection and epidemiology.

There are already examples of strong partnership working in place. For example, the School is working closely with UCL to create the Bloomsbury Research Institute – a global centre of excellence, which translates research on bacteria, parasites and viruses into new modes of detection, treatment and control.

Joining UCLPartners, collaborating with academic and NHS colleagues and gaining access to a population of over six million people will contribute to the School’s mission: to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is highlighted as a key partner in UCLPartners’ application to continue as an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) from April 2014.

“This is an excellent opportunity for academic collaboration, and we are delighted that the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has joined the partnership and is contributing to the AHSC submission,” said Sir Cyril Chantler, Chair of UCLPartners.

Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said: “We look forward to building on our already extensive collaborations with the individual members of UCLPartners to link our research more effectively to our local population.”