Vacancies

Current Vacancy:

Clinical Partnerships Manager  

Role: Programme and Partnership Manager (Freelance) 

Term: Freelance consultancy agreement for an initial 12-month term, including an initial review after three months. 

Hours: 3 days per week (22.5 hours / 0.6 FTE), flexible across the working week 

Salary: £150 per day on a freelancer contract  

Location: Home-based (UK), with occasional in-person meetings in London (approximately 1–2 days per month). Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed.  

About the Role  

SameYou is in a transitional phase as we leverage our findings from our research and community activities to develop innovative services. We are looking for a proactive and rigorous Programme and Partnerships Manager to coordinate our activities across our flagship pilot programmes and research portfolio. 

This role is part research coordination, part project management and project delivery, part relationship management, and part science communication. The Programme and Partnerships Manager will translate between academic, clinical, charity, rehabilitation therapist, and commercial environments to support SameYou’s project delivery, project evaluation, reporting and communications.    

This role is well-suited to someone with an academic background in a neuroscience or biological field, with strong organisational and science communication skills.   

Working closely with the leadership team, the Programme and Partnership Manager will bring structure, organisation and clarity to ongoing projects, helping ensure delivery remains consistent, well-managed and aligned with the charity’s priorities. 

This is a hands-on role within a small, highly committed team. Candidates should be comfortable working independently, managing multiple priorities, and contributing to a collaborative and mission-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities 

Responsibilities will include: 

  • Developing programme plans, timelines and budgets for new initiatives  

  • Managing relationships with clinical, academic and commercial partners 

  • Coordinating delivery of SameYou initiatives across internal and external stakeholders 

  • Monitoring programme progress and reporting to SameYou leadership 

  • Evaluating projects including evaluation protocol planning, data collection strategy, and data analysis  

  • Developing text for SameYou communications channels (news articles, social media) for project news and research findings  

  • Critically assessing and developing innovation opportunities to launch within the charity  

  • Supporting grant applications and funding bids 

  • Developing overarching theories of rehabilitation journeys to organise current and existing future SameYou services 

  • Keeping SameYou leadership informed of neurorehabilitation news and developments, to support SameYou role as a thought leader in brain injury recovery 

 

Programmes currently within the role’s responsibility include: 

  • SameYou Precision Recovery Brain Nurse pilot and rollout 

  • SameYou Recovery SOFA family support programme with the National Rehabilitation Centre, Loughborough 

  • SameYou Recovery SOFA peer mentoring programme with Mount Sinai Health System, New York 

  • Spaulding Rehabilitation I-RISE research project 

  • University of Edinburgh YARNS research project and neuro-nursing training  

 Who We’re Looking For  

The ideal candidate for this role would have: 

Experience: 

  • Background understanding of neuroscience, brain injury rehabilitation, brain health, and/or social health research  

  • For example, a degree or experience working in a related field  

  • Science communication skills and experience  

  • For example, working in science communication, voluntary student society roles in science communications, personal science communication projects 

  • An understanding of research processes and environments in academic and/or clinical settings 

  • For example, a research-intensive degree or experience working in academic services or healthcare. 

  • Data awareness relevant to evaluating clinical research programmes  

  • For example, previous data-driven research experience, familiarity with clinical scales, or experience of evaluation in a project management context 

  • Experience designing and conducting research  

  • For example, a masters by research, a PhD, a relevant undergraduate degree with a strong research component, or commercial/consultancy research in healthcare  

  • A demonstrable interest in neurorehabilitation, patient-centred care, patient-led health and disability research, and/or healthcare innovation.  

  • For example, a degree, lived experience, previous work, voluntary roles, or writing on an area of interest.  

  • Experience working with health, charity, research or partnership-based programmes is desirable 

 

Skills:

  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail 

  • Ability to manage relationships between organisations  

  • Proactive and motivated attitude 

  • Confidence managing multiple workstreams in a small team environment 

  • Comfortable working independently while contributing positively to a collaborative team culture 

 

How to Apply 

Please send: 

  • Your CV  

  • A covering letter (no more than two pages) outlining: 

    • Why this role appeals to you 

    • Your relevant experience and skills, with examples 

    • How you would approach working in a small, high-impact charity 

Please also confirm your availability to work 3 days per week and your notice period. 

Applications should be sent to: Co-Founder & CEO Jenny Clarke [email protected] 

 

Applications close: 7 August 2026

Interviews: August 2026  

 

About Us

SameYou is an innovation-led charity working with clinical partners, survivors and communities to rethink emotional, social and physical recovery after brain injury.  

Our focus is to bring on-going innovative services to survivors and families post discharge and rehabilitation.  

SameYou focuses on: 

  • developing innovative rehabilitation and resource services  

  • making psychosocial support widely available  

  • providing opportunities for survivors to feel seen 

  • raising awareness of brain injury 

SameYou is grounded in lived experience: insights from our community guide everything we do. We have commissioned research to develop the evidence base for services that survivors need. This involves 9 scientific papers published, across 5 research programmes, with 5 more papers underway.  We partner with leading academic and clinical organisations including: UCL, NHS trusts, the Royal College of Nursing, Mount Sinai New York, Spaulding Rehabilitation Centre, the University of Edinburgh, and LSE. 

Our model is to drive innovation in the neurorehabilitation field. SameYou operates through collaborative partnerships rather than regional service delivery, working across emotional, social and physical pillars of recovery to support survivors as whole people. We work with our partner organisations to co-develop new services, bring pilot projects to survivors, develop metrics to demonstrate impact, and find opportunities to deliver to scale. 

 

 

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