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Main area
Digital
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On call will be part of this role)
Job ref
110-AC241-0925
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Williamstown Information Hub
Town
Tonypandy
Salary
£56,514 - £63,623 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/09/2025 23:59

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Principal Digital Operations Manager

Band 8a

Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.

Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.

At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.

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Job overview

An opportunity for a Principal Digital Operations Manager has arisen to join the End User Services team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, based at Williamstown, with a need to also work at other locations across the organisation as and when required. You will provide End User Services operational support to clinical and non clinical users across the healthboard. The candidate will require operational support experience, leadership and experience of supporting users with applications and devices. You must demonstrate experience working within ICT and leading on an ICT function within your application which are essential for this role. The role will provide day to day management of the End User Services Operational Support Managers and teams.

The role sits within the wider End User Services Team, which currently includes, Microsoft 365, EndPoint Management, End User Experience, Mobilisation, Capital Rollouts, Service Desk and Desktop Support.  The team supports a wide array of technologies and is filled with hard working, highly skilled staff.  Through this team, the post holders get exposure to new technologies and training through work experience to enable future progression and development in the Digital space.  The initial focus of this role is on the staff and operational management of the Service Desk, Desktop Support and Rollout teams.

Hybrid working is available where the service needs allow.

Main duties of the job

The Operational Support Team are responsible for supporting all users that interact with Digital, leveraging best practices, tools and processes to enable delivery and operation. 

The role of Principal Digital Operations Manager is to lead the support services that underpin the Digital Programme within CTMUHB, including both user and device.  

The role will provide expert advice across a range of support areas, including but not limited to First Line Support, Second Line Support, Desktop Support and Device Rollouts.  

The role will support a range of highly complex functions and be responsible for the strategic planning across many specialised areas.

The role will lead teams of support staff to develop and promote Digital operational support.  

The role will advocate re-use, automation, and Cloud technologies, as well as looking at best practice, security management and continual improvement of CTMUHB Services

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

  • We listen, learn and improve
  • We treat everyone with respect
  • We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

The post holder will support the delivery of End User Computing services within the team.  This will involve all elements of EUC  service delivery.

The post holder will be expected to provide specialist advice across the range of Digital  services, and where applicable, work within formal or informal projects to coordinate and complete technical tasks.

Where the post holder has specialised skills and experience, they will be required to inform the strategic planning and roadmap development activities.

Principal Responsibilities

The post holder will :

Be the operational support lead for Digital for End User Services and wider associated teams.
Stakeholder management – liaising with senior care group operational leaders, and DGH Hospital General Managers.
Deliver and support adoption of Digital improvements.
Supervise and manage the performance of the Service Desk, Desktop Support and Rollout teams, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
Ensure timely and effective resolution of IT incidents, service requests, and escalations, maintaining high customer satisfaction levels.
Monitor and manage service-level agreements (SLAs) to ensure the teams meet or exceed performance metrics.
Implement and refine processes to enhance the efficiency and quality of service delivery.
Develop and execute strategies for the continuous improvement of service desk, desktop support and rollout operations.
Leverage data and analytics to identify trends, root causes, and areas for improvement in Digital support services.
Collaborate with other Digital functions and business units to align support activities with organisational goals and priorities.
Evaluate, implement, and optimize tools and technologies used by the Service Desk and Desktop Support teams to enhance productivity and service quality.
Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to recommend and implement innovative solutions.
Ensure compliance with organisational policies, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
Prepare and present detailed reports on team performance, incident trends, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to stakeholders.
Identifies and utilises automation capabilities across the environment and establishes process and procedures that promote efficiency, solving day-to-day user problems.
Lead and support on incident investigation and problem resolutions to protect availability targets.
Supports the Head of End User Services in the design and delivery of technology strategy in the End User Services space.
Ability to influence strategy for policy, technical decisions, business change initiatives and organisational objectives.
Ability to analyse complex problems and concepts, reaching sound decisions based on all available information.
Working closely with senior leaders and a broad range of stakeholders within a complex environment, building credibility and utilising communication and influencing skills to establish effective relationships and set clear strategic direction.
Operates as an SME within own field of expertise, driving decisions, choices, pursuing innovation and contributes to group level discussion, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation.
Drives the use of cloud technologies including making those technologies easy for others to consume.
Inspires and embeds an Agile and DevOps mind set across operational support and wider IT.
Mentors, coaches, and manages team to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance in delivering the most impactful features to both internal and external users of the CTMUHB.
Inspire the teams to keep an open mind and explore innovative ways to solve problems, facilitating the team’s work and removing blockers when they occur.
Management of standards, policy, processes and best practice in collaboration with other teams and design authorities and sharing/publicising this knowledge.
Representing CTMUHB at both local and national service management boards.
Ability to identify and rationalise interdependencies between multiple issues in complex delivery environments.
Option appraisal for software, making recommendations on best product to procure.
Makes judgements on multi-stranded or complex Digital End User Service problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions. 
Be an expert in the field of End User Technologies.
Provide and receive highly complex information to large groups.
Negotiates priorities on End User Service Digital developments with non-Digital managers.
Plan and organise broad range of complex activities which may have impact across the whole organisation.

Person specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • In-depth knowledge of End User related support and procedures acquired through a combination of specialist training and relevant study to Master’s degree or equivalent level.
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate.
  • Evidence of Continual Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
  • Formal leadership training at equivalent or greater to ILM Level 5.
  • Relevant Microsoft qualifications and/or training.
  • Project management of delivering technology improvements.
  • ITIL Managing Professional Certificate.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Operational support leadership and experience in a medium to large enterprise.
  • Implementation of Digital operational support policies in own areas of expertise.
  • Influencing strategic direction in a medium to large enterprise.
  • Stakeholder management and external supplier management, along with experience of managing delivery in a multi-supplier environment.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in coaching and leading people from multiple disciplines to build and develop effective teams; initiating change and fostering an inclusive culture.
  • Experience of planning, prioritising and resourcing work activities.
  • Experience of agile ways of working.
  • Proven experience leading by example to help transform the culture of the organisation, fostering a high trust, empowered environment.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Competent in the management of staff.
  • Be comfortable working with all levels of organisation.
  • Self-starter, ability to work comfortably within resource constraints and deadlines.

Circumstances

Essential criteria
  • Able to meet the physical demands of the role, particularly the regular use of a VDU.
  • Able to travel around UHB sites in a timely manner.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Willingness and ability to work flexibly in line with demands of the department and the service.
  • Participate in on-call rota.
  • Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level. This is the minimum level of Welsh required.

Aptitude and Abilities Skills

Essential criteria
  • Provide and receive highly complex information to large groups.
  • Negotiates priorities on End User Service Digital developments with non Digital managers.
  • Demonstrating an inspiring and coherent leadership style and the ability to engage and win the cooperation of team members.
  • Standard keyboard skills.
Desirable criteria
  • Clear & secure understanding of Agile project management.
  • Naturally innovate ways of working and improve the use of resources.
  • Delivery of new technical systems.

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Applicant requirements

Welsh language skills are desirable

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Brett Thomas
Job title
Head of End User Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01443 443656
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