Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-CP5105059-ICS-C
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Green
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Digital Infrastructure Service Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8A
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity to help build a leading digital function in the NHS. The Senior Digital Infrastructure & Service Improvement Project Manager is a key role within our innovation and transformation team.
This role will be crucial in shaping how we provide robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure services to support the wider Trust now and in the future. Reporting directly to the Senior Digital Infrastructure & Service Improvement Programme Manager you will be responsible for the development, upgrade and improvement of all infrastructure functions including networking and server and cloud capabilities. You will manage several different infrastructure projects collaborating with Digital Operational Leads to ensure timely and effective delivery.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for experienced infrastructure project managers who possess an excellent understanding of technology infrastructure. You will have a proven track record of ensuring that infrastructure services are designed and managed to provide maximum uptime, capacity, and cost efficiency. You will be accustomed to working with senior teams and be comfortable working across organisational boundaries and familiar with working within project and service management frameworks. Digital Infrastructure is at the heart of the Trust, and this is an exciting opportunity to shape and build a high performing, effective and robust service.
In return, you could be part of our digital first journey in which there is both permission and support to be innovative, to ensure the Trust develops a leading digital function.
If you would like a further discussion on the role, in the first instance please contact our executive search partner Luke Scott-Crowley at Hunter Healthcare on 07512 322 109 or [email protected]
Working for our organisation
Originally formed in 2000, ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental health care, innovation and improvement. We care for a population of more than 750,000 and we are proud to serve one of the most culturally diverse parts of the UK. In Bedfordshire and Luton, we are now responsible for a further 630,000 people’s mental health and community health care needs. Wherever patients receive our services and from whichever team, our values of care, respect and inclusivity underpin all that we do. Valuing the diversity of our local population is fundamental to realising our vision to provide outstanding healthcare to our diverse community. In September 2016, the Trust was proud to be rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, and the Trust was once again rated at ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in June 2018 and 2021.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our Board have clear ambition to be a ‘Digital First’ organisation. Our digital strategy is a collaboration between the Trust senior management team, the Digital Team, and a wide range of stakeholders who firmly believe in building upon our digital capabilities to ensure ELFT are regarded as pioneers in Digital. The scale of response to the COVID-19 pressures, particularly enabling remote and mobile working, and setting up the Stratford vaccination centre has been remarkable. However, there are also significant challenges to address. Digital tools and services are now fundamental to the management and delivery of our services. This is an extremely exciting time to be joining our Trust on this journey.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master’s degree level or has equitable work based experience
- Recognised professional project management qualification e.g., Managing Successful Programs (MSP) and/or PRINCE 2 or has equitable work-based experience
- Management/leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- ITIL qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Successful delivery and implementation of large-scale complex digital programmes and projects across the health or social care sector
- Significant experience of Project and Programme Management using an established project management methodology
- Management of multi-skilled applications design/development/technical teams
- In depth and wide-ranging experience of working in application design and development across a variety of environments
- Proven track record of setting strategy and prioritising a broad range of architecture, technical and business knowledge to deliver high quality technical solutions
- Demonstrable experience leading, introducing and managing major change portfolio and programmes
- Experience of specifying and procuring solution and services on large complex projects
- Development of capital bids and business cases
- Benefits management life cycle
- Risk management and governance including any issues, dependencies and constraints in projects
- Delivering communication plans to ensure engagement, co-production and collaboration.
- Presentation of information to project board and other relevant governing committees
- Accountable for project budgets within a changing environment
- Facilitation of business change
- Managing, leading and motivating large teams
- Advanced Microsoft office applications e.g., VISIO, Project, Excel, PowerPoint
- Leading service changes to improve performance
- Implementing national changes as required
- Experience of working within a Digital Department environment.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- High level of technical knowledge of clinical systems with the ability to quickly understand and apply new technologies
- Excellent technical and organisational skills with the ability to manage complex workloads and multi-task in complex and sensitive environments
- Clear understanding and appreciation of the processes supporting clinical care and the approaches required to designing and developing computer applications in this environment
- Sound judgement and decision making involving highly complex facts or situations
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and verbal – when dealing with highly technical and highly complex information to a wide range of stakeholders across organisational boundaries and be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information and use a high level of persuasion, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Proven ability to convey technical information in lay terms both written and verbal
- Confident in dealing with and resolving scenarios where people’s opinion may conflict
- Knowledge of Portfolio, Programme and Project Management using an established project management and methodology
- Excellent working knowledge of NHS practice, current NHS agenda and healthcare policy
- Excellent working knowledge of core healthcare systems and the role they play in the healthcare setting
- Ability to write comprehensive, clear specifications and project documentation clearly and concisely
- Able to meet deadlines in a challenging and resource lean environment
- Ability to build strong relations with internal and external project stakeholders
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of working in a Digital Support environment.
- In depth understanding of change management
- Working knowledge of financial processes
Personal
Essential criteria
- High level of analytical and problem-solving skills – ability to analyse highly technical & extraordinarily complex data & sensitive information and make high level judgements including ability to responding timely manner to planned and unexpected demands
- High level of attention to detail
- Ability to negotiate on controversial issues including performance and change
- Ability to embrace, lead and drive change in a complex environment
- Highly organised with a strong ability to lead and direct others adjusting plans as required both in the short and long term
- Able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the role
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and services
- Able to lead and direct others to accomplish organisational goals and objectives
- Reliable, adaptable and dependable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Luke Scott-Crowley
- Job title
- Hunter Healthcare
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07512 322 109
- Additional information
Luke Scott-Crowley
07512 322 109
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