Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Transformation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NEY-6764247-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place, Leeds
- Town
- Leeds
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Digital Transformation
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Through the seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
The North East and Yorkshire Digital Transformation Team has a key role to play in the successful delivery of national, regional and local digital programmes.
We oversee the North East and Yorkshire current digital strategic agenda and national programmes that have regional and system involvement by:
- Working in close partnership with the Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to support the aims of the digital and data transformation agendas
- Being recognised by all our partners as delivering consistent, high-quality and valuable support, advice and guidance to the digital transformation process.
- Engaging all key stakeholders across the health and care system to work effectively together to improve patient outcomes and address inequalities.
- Collaborating with partner organisations to deliver a wide range of transformation programmes under the Transformation Directorate portfolio to bring about benefits to healthcare communities.
This team is also leading on new and emerging programmes of work in innovative technology that will contribute to the ambitions for the NHS to tilt towards technology and to unlock productivity.
Main duties of the job
AI has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, offering a multitude of benefits that have the potential to enhance patient care, optimise healthcare systems, and reduce costs.
Across the North East and Yorkshire region we know there are pockets of innovative uses of AI, but no single view across the region. The Head of Digital Transformation will initially work to understand current applications, limitations, safety concerns and potential growth of AI in healthcare.
The Head of Digital Transformation will be responsible for:
- Working in support of the Regional Director: Digital Transformation with understanding emerging priorities across the digital and data transformation agenda
- Horizon scanning and understanding new innovative technology to support moving health and care from analogue to digital
- Overseeing delivery of national and regional strategic priorities coordinating programmes of work across regional and local footprints
- Planning and designing programmes of work with health systems and proactively managing overall progress
- Ensuring strong links and relationships with the Integrated Care Boards, external organisations and national teams working in digital transformation
- The provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well-co-ordinated Digital Transformation service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of the application of information and technology strategies, plans and solutions to improve business performance preferably in a health environment
- Extensive knowledge of 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 healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant professional body
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to build effective partnerships, common purpose and shared understanding across a range of diverse and competing views, build networks, manage conflict, provide feedback and coach others
- Ability to build and motivate high performing technical teams, mobilising individuals and teams around shared goals
- High level of strategic and systemic thinking skills, able to synthesise and align multiple requirements
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephen Firman
- Job title
- Regional Director: Digital Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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