We’re recruiting: join our team to make a difference to health and care in Wessex

Are you fascinated by change and innovation? Can you help the NHS adopt innovation faster to help deliver better care to patients?

At Wessex AHSN we improve people’s health, achieve excellence in healthcare and boost innovation and growth in our region’s life sciences and healthcare sector. As one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) across England, we connect and support academics, NHS, industry and others to bring fresh energy to old problems, inspired thinking to new ones and to adopt innovative practice at scale.

We are an ambitious organisation, looking for passionate and motivated people to join us with a proven track record of delivery. The AHSN Network landscape is changing and to meet these demands we’re recruiting to help us deliver our exciting and ambitious business plan. We have several roles available across a number of teams, including Business Support Assistant, Project Co-ordinators, Programme Managers and Associate Directors.

If you have a tenacity to succeed, great communication and project/programme management skills, an ability to build new relationships quickly, and the capability to work at pace and in complex situations, we’d like to hear from you. We welcome applications from people with experience of diverse professional sectors and from diverse communities to ensure our team is dynamic, vibrant and reflects the population we serve.

We aim to ensure that staff enjoy a successful work/life balance and offer flexible working dependent on the requirements of the role. Wessex AHSN endorses personal development and provides training allowances to help you deliver in the role and meet your career goals.

We also have a proactive approach to wellbeing in line with our core values of being innovative, inclusive and collaborative, with staff engagement groups shaping the organisation’s culture and driving initiatives to allow our people to flourish despite times of challenge, change and high demand.

Visit our recruitment page to find out more about working for Wessex AHSN and to apply via our host trust, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Informal enquiries can be made to Sarah Turl, Associate Director – Operations, via sarah.turl@wessexahsn.net