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Associate Director - Wessex Health Partners

Closing date

The closing date is Friday 3rd October 2025

Job summary

Health Innovation Wessex is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

Come and join Wessex Health Partners as Associate Director and lead a dynamic strategic alliance driving collaborative health and care research across the region. We’re seeking a visionary leader with exceptional stakeholder engagement and programme delivery skills.

Wessex Health Partners (WHP) is a unique regional alliance uniting NHS providers, Integrated Care Systems, leading academic institutions and Health Innovation Wessex, to accelerate improvements in health and care through research,

WHP supports a vast ecosystem of innovators and research-active clinicians, academics, and public contributors. The core team is small but high-impact, working with partners to deliver multi-million-pound programmes and nationally recognised initiatives such as NIHR infrastructures and the WHP Small Grant Scheme. WHP is known for its collaborative excellence, ambitious innovation, and trusted leadership, making it an exciting environment for strategic thinkers who thrive on shaping systemic change

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