Innovation Specialist

**Date**:18 Feb 2025

**Location**: Osborne Park, WA, AU, 6017

**Company**:Silver Chain Group Limited

**Innovation Specialist**
- Fixed term full-time opportunity for 24 months
- WA, VIC, QLD (Sunshine Coast) or SA locations available
- Hybrid working environment, WFH and the office
- Health and aged care service innovation implementation focused.

**The opportunity**

The Innovation Specialist in the Research and Innovation Team is responsible for supporting and coordinating in home care innovation initiatives and providing specialist expertise and experience in innovation project management, initiative delivery, clinician adoption and measurement of return on investment. They will support ensuring that Silverchain’s current and future in home care services are contemporary and deliver meaningful outcomes and impacts, that are grounded in end user needs.

**Key responsibilities**

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

- Coordinate and support in home care innovation initiatives emphasising technology innovation that solves for priority client problems and opportunities with a focus on projects involving artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation and emerging technologies in home care.
- Support project delivery excellence across the Research and Innovation team.
- Track and support communication and reporting on innovation initiatives to communicate progress and demonstrate value and impact.
- Write and present high quality innovation deliverables (such as market scans, opportunity reports, reverse briefs, project plans, background and problem definition slides, concept brief slides, solution option slides, pilot approach slides, implementation plan slides) that resonate with clinical service delivery stakeholders.
- Undertake desktop research to identify, summarise and document key government policy and strategy implications for Research and Innovation, market trends, emerging technology and leading practice case studies, to present innovation opportunity spaces (share evidence with stakeholders that supports the case for change to build urgency).
- Support digital solutions configuration and UAT.
- Support value driver analysis, market opportunity and business rationale definition, financial projections and business case development.
- Develop expert recommendations, insights and briefings on innovation learnings to internal stakeholders to stretch stakeholder thinking with respect to the art of the possible and to support product and service development.
- Support collaboration with industry and strategic partners to identify and develop new project proposals, grants and concepts and support implementation.
- Develop and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships specific to innovation at Silverchain.
- Develop and document innovation methods and templates to build tradecraft and support others to build innovation capability enterprise wide (including assisting innovation scholarship trainees).
- Contribute to publications in peer-reviewed journals around virtual care and innovative in-home care models and develop and present them at conferences and other public forums.

**About you**
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. digital health, health informatics, nursing, allied health).
- Knowledge of and experience developing and implementing new models of care, including virtual care.
- Proven experience in the role of a change agent supporting modern ways of delivery care to the community.
- Proven experience in supporting technological innovation, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation, and emerging technologies.
- Proficient in desktop research to develop a strong evidence base, case studies and best practices.
- Strong attention to detail and proven ability to produce high quality written documentation
- Highly organise and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to think critically to plan, synchronise, and execute complex undertakings with a diverse set individuals in different roles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to leverage advanced technologies to address complex challenges.
- Willingness to manage multiple tasks at once and adhere to guidelines, budgets, and deadlines.
- Familiarity with the innovation process, methods, tools, templates and deliverables (including sensing and scoping opportunities, problem definition and research, concept and prototype development, piloting, commercialisation, implementation and scaling).
- Strategically minded and commercially astute with the ability to support value driver analysis, market opportunity and business rationale definition, financial projections and business case development.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and within a team.
- Demonstrated experience in end-to-end project management.
- Familiarity with Agile, Human Centred Design and Lean ways of working.
- Thought leader who reads an