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Job overview

We are seeking a Digital Director to join the Trust to lead the digital transformation and infrastructure for the New Frimley Park Hospital.  

Working closely with the Trust Executive, senior management, New Hospital Programme Director, clinical and operational leads, within the  Trust and wider system to design and deliver the digital infrastructure for the New Frimley Park Hospital. 

With extensive leadership and senior management experience, the successful candidate will have a proven track record of leading digital change and improvement projects as well as providing strategic and technical digital advice to a large complex healthcare organisation.  

We’re looking for someone who is adaptable, committed to high standards and an active team player, politically astute and able to communicate at all levels, but most importantly someone who shares our values.

Main duties of the job

The role will lead the digital transformation agenda to support the design of the new Frimley Park hospital, and use digital tools where appropriate to enable change and maximise the benefit of technology in the new hospital.

The role will ensure digital enables improved patient access, integration of technological solutions to help operational teams manage workload, improve staff and patient satisfaction, and improve efficiency and sustainability of the New Frimley Park Hospital.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.