Innovation Unit

Innovation Unit Innovation Unit is a social enterprise with a bold vision: we want a world where more people belong and contribute to thriving societies.

We have a strong track record of supporting leaders and organisations delivering public services to see and do things differently. They come to us with a problem. We empower them to achieve radically different solutions that offer better outcomes for lower costs. There are a range of answers to the question, how do we do it? Every project we work with is unique and requires a bespoke approach. As

expert facilitators we facilitate at all levels, whether it’s between individuals or organisations, or successfully facilitating projects or programmes. We uncover new thinking and practice that can be learned from. We connect the right people around shared problems to form supportive alliances that help innovation develop and grow. We also enable clients to measure the impact and success of innovation and develop practical tools that people can use. We believe creativity is important and we can be creative when we need to. But creativity isn’t enough. To achieve lasting change innovation must be systematic and disciplined. This is at the heart of all of our methods. We don’t limit our work to helping individual clients. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise, which means we care about improving things for everyone. We use what we know to influence public debate, re-shape public policy and transform public services, leading to improvements that everyone can learn from.

At Innovation Unit, we’ve been working on mental health system transformation for over a decade. So when the teenage dau...
02/11/2022

At Innovation Unit, we’ve been working on mental health system transformation for over a decade. So when the teenage daughter of our Director of Mental Health Innovation, Nick Webb, experienced anxiety and stress, he was dismayed to find how much further CAMHS has to go to truly meet children and young people’s needs.

Read Nick's open letter to CAMHS system where he outlines the support he’s been offered and how his experience has reinforced his ambition to transform the system: https://bit.ly/3DwFAr8

Read Nick’s open letter to the UK’s mental health system where he outlines the support he’s been offered and how his experience has reinforced his ambition to transform the system. Dear Mental Health System I hope you are well? Thanks for getting in touch. I just opened your letter, inviting m...

Want to make a difference to people's lives? Tackle inequalities? Transform systems? Come and work with us as a service ...
01/02/2022

Want to make a difference to people's lives? Tackle inequalities? Transform systems? Come and work with us as a service designer!

We have a clear team structure and leadership but we’re not keen on hierarchy.

We encourage everyone to use their initiative, take responsibility and manage risk.

We help everyone to learn and grow through informal and structured development.

And we're keen to hear from people who have some not all of the skills we need - you don't have to tick every box to apply!

Responsibilities Leading elements of projects and supporting project delivery. Managing, coordinating and facilitating a number of project-related activities such as research, prototyping and co-design. Developing high quality project outputs ranging from workshop materials to reports. Developing In...

🤔 Who works at IU? 🤩 We’ve researchers, service designers and programme managers alongside nurses, occupational therapis...
28/01/2022

🤔 Who works at IU?

🤩 We’ve researchers, service designers and programme managers alongside nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and central and local government leaders.

😄 Why not bring your skills and expertise to IU - and start your next big adventure with us!

👍Check out our jobs now!

Are you energised by digging into problems and challenging assumptions? Are you inspired by designing new solutions to big social challenges? Are you motivated by helping people transform the systems around them? Working at Innovation Unit might be your next big adventure.

🙂Are you energised by digging into problems and challenging assumptions?😀Are you inspired by designing new solutions to ...
26/01/2022

🙂Are you energised by digging into problems and challenging assumptions?

😀Are you inspired by designing new solutions to big social challenges?

😁Are you motivated by helping people transform the systems around them?

👍Then working at Innovation Unit might be your next big adventure!

Are you energised by digging into problems and challenging assumptions? Are you inspired by designing new solutions to big social challenges? Are you motivated by helping people transform the systems around them? Working at Innovation Unit might be your next big adventure.

This week the Learning First team will be testing out new ideas for transforming Bermuda’s education system with parents...
15/03/2021

This week the Learning First team will be testing out new ideas for transforming Bermuda’s education system with parents, young people, business and community members and teachers from across the island Learning First Bermuda

Today we’re thrilled to launch our website! Find out why we need and the inspiring and innovations already makin...
08/05/2019

Today we’re thrilled to launch our website! Find out why we need and the inspiring and innovations already making a real difference to people’s lives.

Living Well UK is a National Lottery funded programme led by Innovation Unit. It supports four pioneering places in the UK to build Living Well systems of support for good mental health and wellbeing.

*NEW REPORT* Latest addition to the World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE report series we're delighted to share ...
30/04/2019

*NEW REPORT* Latest addition to the World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE report series we're delighted to share 'Local Learning Ecosystems: Emerging Models' which explores the promise of ecosystems and their potential to transform how learning happens for today's young people. https://www.innovationunit.org/thoughts/classrooms-are-not-enough-new-ecosystems-are-emerging-new-report/ …

A radical new report from World Innovation Summit for Education-Innovation Unit calls for learners to get out of the classroom more and grasp the opportunities of flexible modern ‘learning ecosystems’.

12/04/2019

Coming soon: Reimagining Education Together, a report from Big Change in partnership with the Innovation Unit. Start now with key insights into what change needs to happen in the education ecosystem.

18/03/2019

Only four days left to apply for one of our exciting roles and join our talented UK team! We're looking for:
- Senior Innovation Consultant
- Innovation Consultant
- Project Intern (paid)

Apply now: https://www.innovationunit.org/connect/

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