Crynodeb o'r swydd
- Prif leoliad
- Digital, Data and Technology
- Gradd
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 173-13726-COR
- Cyflogwr
- Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- St Marys House
- Tref
- Leeds
- Cyflog
- £79,504 - £91,609 Per Annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 02/08/2026 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Head of Digital Programmes
Band 8c
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Reporting to the Chief Digital Information Officer, LYPFT, the Head of Digital Programmes is responsible for designing, developing and delivering a number of strategic Digital projects and programmes, across Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Community Health NHS Trust, supporting delivery of both Trust’s digital strategies where collaboration is key.
Ultimately the post holder will ensure both Trusts exciting portfolio of Digital projects and programmes deliver benefits to our patients and staff. The post-holder will be part of the LYPFT Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) leadership team.
The highest level of communication and interpersonal skills will be required to present and receive highly complex, sensitive and highly contentious information, to a wide range of stakeholders across both organisations with possibly strong opposing views in a formal setting where there are significant barriers to acceptance and change.
The post holder will have the ability to lead and drive strategic business change/ transformation and use appropriate skills to ensure benefits are identified and realised.
Please note this position is open to applications from internal LYPFT, LCH, and West Yorkshire ICB colleagues only.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The post-holder is responsible for how an idea or opportunity is taken through a project or programme into to a live service and enabling the benefits that are delivered from this change.
The post holder will be responsible for the mechanisms to initiate a project, the processes and procedures to run a project safely to defined standards, but without creating delays to realising the benefits.
The post holder is responsible for making sure projects have the patient at the heart, and that staff who work within the portfolio are happy, motivated and driven to improve patient outcomes.
The post-holder must understand portfolio, programme and project management and have the ability to make balanced and reasonable decisions. The post-holder will work closely across LYPFT and LCH with the other DDaT senior managers and their teams, to ensure all projects and programmes are integrated and complimentary.
The post-holder will share and promote the values of both Trusts and DDaT and ensure it is outward facing, patient focussed and modern in its approach.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- Provide the strategic lead for the implementation of digital change and technologies with a combined approach to collaborative working across the Trusts.
- To develop a digital portfolio with supporting processes and governance needed to make collaboration and the targeted initiatives a success
- Champion digitally-enabled, clinical change over ‘technical solutions’.
- Provide leadership to deliver high quality project and programme delivery.
- Ensure all aspects of collaborative portfolio service delivery is aligned and contributes to both Digital Strategies ensuring all projects have identified benefits and that these are delivered as part of the project implementation.
- Be responsible for all escalated issues within own area and liaise directly with other teams and vendors to resolve.
- Develop a Virtual Digital Portfolio Office to deliver added value to services across both Trusts.
- Be responsible for communication to both Trusts, ensuring the organisation is fully informed of the programme and how it will improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrate the Digital Services values and be accountable for own attitude and behaviour.
- Responsible for developing all project and programme delivery, making project change a positive experience.
- Responsible for managing the demand for programmes/projects, challenging and prioritising accordingly to ensure the best use of available resources.
- Robustly challenge programme/project slippage and secure recovery action plans with assigned accountabilities.
- Resolve bottlenecks and blockages in the critical path of the designated programmes/ projects.
- Manage potentially highly complex and politically sensitive relationships.
- Responsible for generating and analysing highly complex information to ensure where a range of options, and the implications of each of these, have to be considered in order to make informed decisions are made regarding programme/project delivery.
- Ensure that inter-dependencies between projects are identified, mapped and monitored and ensure the sequencing of changes is clearly described.
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to masters’ degree level (or equivalent qualification / experience) or working towards Qualification in management
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Leadership skills to clearly articulate goals and objectives and motivate and lead others towards their achievement.
- Be an effective, approachable and sensitive communicator in different communities and cultures, with the ability to adapt style and approach to meet the needs of different audiences.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
- Able to allocate and monitor resources to lead innovation and change projects
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Significant relevant management experience, within the NHS or in a similar environment.
- Experience of managing software and maintenance contracts and negotiations.
- Experience of managing large scale programmes and projects within a complex environment
- Experience of detailing, designing and implementing service redesign and improvement initiatives
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- In depth knowledge of programme and Project management
- Knowledge of the current and future digital approaches that the trust will need to harness and the digital health marketplace
- Highly developed knowledge of organisational development and cultural change
- Significant knowledge of risk identification, management, and mitigation approaches
- Knowledge of the digital healthcare landscape
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Ian Hogan
- Teitl y swydd
- Chief Digital Information Officer
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07704303962
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