Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-COR-6896761C*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trafford House
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Product Owner
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
The MFT Data & Analytics department is a multi-disciplinary team of data Managers, Analysts, Engineers and Architects. The team is at the cutting edge of data and analytics in the largest healthcare provider organisation in the country. The Trust has recently implemented the Epic Electronic Patient Record and is now collecting a significant and comprehensive amount of data covering both administrative and clinical services. The Trust is seeking to capitalise on this opportunity through the Trust's new Data Strategy which will see a number of data and analytical capabilities implemented across the Trust as it aims to deliver better outcomes and improved through its data. There is also a new Digital Services team structure and target operating model that is being implemented to enable and deliver a new and exciting approach to data driven healthcare.
The Product Owner will be at the forefront of this transformation as a senior leader within the Digital Services team. Embracing the new data and analytical capabilities and realising the opportunities presented by the new Electronic Patient Record.
Main duties of the job
Engage with the key stakeholders from across the Trust to determine the data and analytical products and services required to meet the many and complex requirements.
Support the coordination and delivery of data and analytical products and services across the digital services teams.
Lead a programme of product innovation and discovery - reviewing new technologies, methodologies and how these can be applied to a healthcare setting.
Construct the departments product roadmap
Support and engage with the engineers, analysts, managers, architects and scientists on the delivery of the product roadmap and realisation of the products outcomes and value it will deliver.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent or relevant experience
- Masters Level degree or equivalent level of experience with Informatics
- Evidence of Personal Development
- Work as a product owner or in a delivery role that works closely with development teams delivering digital products
- Excellent knowledge of Agile principles and scrum techniques and artifacts
- In depth knowledge of the scrum and agile software development methodology.
- Excellent knowledge of user centred design principles and value proposition design. Understand and deliver high levels of design quality standards
- Knowledge of product development architecture
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or reassurance skills are required.
- Ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group
- Ability to make judgements on multistranded or complex IM&T problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions
- Ability to formulate long-term, strategic plans which involve uncertainty, and which may impact across the whole organisation
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop staff
- Collaborative approach and good team working
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
- High levels of organisation and ability to prioritise requirements into deliverable tasks.
Desirable criteria
- Business or computer science degree
- Product Management qualification
- Experience within the NHS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- John Schofield
- Job title
- Director of Information & Patient Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07739828198
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