Job Title: | Product Manager |
Institute/Centre/Faculty: | Institute of Global Health Innovation/ Centre for Health Policy/Medicine |
Campus location: | St Mary’s Hospital Campus, Paddington |
Job Family/Level: | Professional Services Level 6 |
Salary Range: | £66,510 – £75,000 per annum |
Responsible to: | Daniel Dickens, Managing Director, Helix Centre |
Line Management responsibility for: | Management of project-based teams & external partner relationships |
Key Working Relationships (internal): | The Helix Centre Leadership team – including Professor Lord Darzi of Denham – ICL, Imperial College Healthcare Trust – as host of the Helix Centre, Imperial College / RCA researchers and project-based teams. |
Key Working Relationships (external): | Project Funders and Delivery Partners |
Contract type: | Full time, fixed term for one year |
Purpose of the Post
The Helix Centre team works at the heart of healthcare delivery. Operating out of St Mary’s Hospital, we build and scale solutions that reimagine healthcare. Founded by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, at the core of what we do is a drive to make a real and lasting difference to the lives of patients and health care professionals through design and technology. This Product Manager role reports to the Managing Director of the Helix Centre, Daniel Dickens and is responsible for the product deliverables on a Helix innovation project, as well as management of key stakeholder relationships and project team members within a matrix structure. The first project and product in the pipeline is in Paediatric Patient Safety, responsible for day-to-day management of the one of the Helix Centre’s most exciting and high-impact projects to date. The starting point for this project is to understand the problem you will be helping solve. Medication errors are alarmingly common, and three times more common in children than in adults. Errors are yet more common in paediatric emergencies. Even though under-detection and under-reporting are the norm, an error is estimated to occur once in ten drug administrations in emergency units. In paediatric emergencies, clinicians must make a series of complex calculations to determine the correct doses, dilutions and rates of administration of medication, all of which are often conducted under extreme pressure. A large child weighs up to 30 times that of a new born baby, and this variation adds potential for large miscalculation errors that simply does not exist in adult medicine. This problem has been neglected by technological advances in healthcare, and most attempts to improve medication safety have focused on adults. Over the past two years, the Helix Centre has prototyped a computerised decision support system to calculate the correct dose and drug preparation information for any child. Once provided with the patient’s weight, age, and medication, the software determines the safe dosing parameters for any given drug and a suitable method of administration for that individual patient. A personalised syringe label is printed, on-demand, that graphically illustrates on the syringe the safe preparation and administration instructions for the medication. We are working with the British National Formulary on a novel database to ensure the system has the most up-to-date, UK-specific medication information at any time. After successfully completing a large, simulated trial, we have received prestigious, multi-year funding to bring this pioneering solution through the final stages of digital product development, regulatory approval and clinical trial at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. |
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for someone who likes to get things done, who will thrive in a unique healthcare environment. It’s highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, working with a range of specialists, from designers, technologists to clinicians and academics. As Product Manager of this project in Paediatrics, you will:
About You You are a people-centred leader and product launcher, with sound analytical and communication skills. You are totally focused on delivery, a completer/finisher through and through. You will be comfortable in a fast paced, changing environment, with a good feel for when to expand creatively and when and how to focus. Given the complex nature of the project within the regulated medical devices space, it is our preference for our Product Manager to have prior experience in the medical devices / medical software arena. This is however not a pre-requisite and we will consider outstanding applicants who have successfully delivered complex products in other areas. |