Job summary
- Main area
- Technical Lead Architect
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- 18 months (As Fixed term or Secondment.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 828-PROVIDE2895
- Employer
- Provide CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Phoenix House
- Town
- Basildon, Essex
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 Per annum.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Technical Lead Architect – ICS Shared Care Record Programme
Band 8c
Job overview
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition.
Main duties of the job
This post resides within the Digital and Data directorate who are responsible for ensuring that digital technology fully supports the integration of health and care services across the ICP- putting residents at the centre of their care. The Digital and Data directorate leads system-wide activities to transform the use of digital and data to support a modern and sustainable health and care system. The directorate brings together both local authority and health needs into a common single approach for the system, which is underpinned by organisational specific priorities.
As the Technical Product Owner for the ICS shared care record you will support bringing together information from the electronic records held by the different places that our population receive care. This allows health and care professionals to access a real-time summary of key information, safely and securely as they deliver care to our population
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Operate with autonomy in the role and accountability for decisions made during the course of duties
- Set long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the programme
- Matrix management delivery from multiple senior members of staff across system partners
- Demonstrate and deliver strong business acumen in the field of work ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- Creating and maintaining the business, applications, data and technical architectures of the ICS.
- Support multiple teams across the system, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies to support the needs of the ICS.
- Provide Technical architecture support with our partners as agreed through a memorandum of understanding.
- Be responsible for relevant programme governance in relation to the programme requirments, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture design.
- Inspire wider technical leads across the system and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the programme and wider system.
- Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations and proactively seek out opportunities for digital transformation
- Maintain a comprehensive register of systems in place and working with system partners to ensure our collective infrastructure remains current and within suppliers’ support periods.
- Analysis of solutions to ensure and demonstrate solutions meet key requirements.
- Writing detailed design specifications in support of the programme solutions.
- Exchanging specialist information with colleagues from similar and other disciplines including providing key specialist advice
- Representing ICS at meetings, conferences, and events as appropriate
- Actively contributing to ICS public profile and presence through presentations, media and social media
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist technical area.
- Extensive knowledge of technical specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health and care policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Knowledge and experience of working with a master patient index management system
- Digital transformation knowledge and experience in an NHS and / or social care context
- TOGAF certification or equivalent qualification
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests.
- Experience of leading, managing, developing, influencing and inspiring staff.
Desirable criteria
- Strong integration knowledge and experience. Including how the following technology and standards work: HL7v2, batch files uploads and on-demand API (IHE profiles, FHIR).
- Knowledge and experience with Orion Health or equivalent information sharing software
Analytical
Essential criteria
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to carry out procurements for highly detailed, high value contracts that require analysis, comparison and assessment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christopher Wright
- Job title
- Director of IT and Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07837571416
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