Job summary
Passionate about how digital can transform healthcare, for our donors, patients and colleagues? We have an exciting Digital Services team opportunity for a Power Platform Manager, to work collaboratively across the Trust and wider NHS Wales, to provide transformative digital systems and insight-led services.
We are in an exciting period of change including opening a new world class cancer centre to extend and enhance specialist cancer treatment along with delivery of cancer care closer to home at regional sites. For the Welsh Blood Service, we are transforming blood and transplant services, improving current capabilities alongside developing new services including plasma for medicines.
An ambitious digital strategy underpins this, which will revolutionise the way in which we deliver services - from co-producing innovative technologies, working on digital inclusion, to embedding data & insight into our everyday. Our team are here to deliver new digital solutions and excellent everyday digital service, to improve services and outcomes.
This is a truly special opportunity and we are looking for talented and passionate people who share our values and can help us realise the Trust's ambitions.
Main duties of the job
The Digital Services team at Velindre University NHS Trust (VUNHST) leads on digital strategy, development, co-ordination, planning, project, and programme management for all digital / IT services and supporting functions.
The Digital Services team works closely together to support a high quality, consistent approach to the delivery, support, and implementation of IT solutions. VUNHST is establishing a core capability in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This capability will support departments across VUNHST and by extension our stakeholders across NHS Wales.
About us
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's degree level (preferably IT related) or equivalent level of work experience and knowledge
- ITIL Foundation or equivalent experience.
- Specialist knowledge of automation software, tools and methodologies
- Knowledge of the digital infrastructure and the IT applications and service processes used within an enterprise organisation, including those associated with efficiency.
- Understands how to organise a proof of concept or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technological business change in order to meet a business need.
Desirable
- Professional qualification or membership in BCS.
- Federation of Information Professionals (FED-IP) membership.
- Significant knowledge of the Microsoft Power Platform suite.
- Knowledge of at least one automation implementation design methodology e.g. Agile, Six Sigma.
- Knowledge of XML, CSS, CSV.
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of using Automation software to build RPA solutions.
- Relevant experience working in a digital / IT environment.
- Relevant experience of using development environments, with experience in applying version control across environments.
- Significant experience of testing application systems using formal, structured procedures - e.g. using use cases, test plans, test scripts etc
- Experience and understanding of workflow-based logic and the ability to understand a business process from a workflow diagram or illustrate a written process as a workflow diagram
- Technical and functional understanding of Commercial Off-the-Shelf applications and/or other bespoke software deployed within the organisation
Desirable
- Proven record of finding innovative solutions to highly complex problems
- Experience of one or more of: Microsoft Server, Linux, Unix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle DBMA, LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory.
- Experience of applying business analysis techniques and methodologies to understand organisational business processes
- Understands the principles and application of cloud / virtualisation and the use of tools and systems to manage virtualised environments.
- Understands the concepts of software that enables the capture, create, population and manipulation of structured and unstructured data
- Experience of working in a highly regulated environment
Skills
Essential
- High standard of oral and written communication skills with the ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience
- Ability to provide guidance and support to less experienced team members
- Ability to identify opportunities to align technical strategies to operational needs,
- Sound judgment, decision making, and organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative, organise own workload, and deliver support and projects with minimal support
- Work with 3rd parties and suppliers to deliver the digital service and RPA solutions.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, looks for opportunities to improve services, staff, and self.
- Ability to engage with and motivate diverse audiences.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
- Aptitude for problem solving complex issues, with the ability to take a logical route to the source of an error.
- Use facilitation skills ability to bring others together to work jointly in pursuit of a shared outcome
- Adaptable to change
- Willingness to develop and learn new technologies
Other
Essential
- Desirable (but not essential): Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's degree level (preferably IT related) or equivalent level of work experience and knowledge
- ITIL Foundation or equivalent experience.
- Specialist knowledge of automation software, tools and methodologies
- Knowledge of the digital infrastructure and the IT applications and service processes used within an enterprise organisation, including those associated with efficiency.
- Understands how to organise a proof of concept or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technological business change in order to meet a business need.
Desirable
- Professional qualification or membership in BCS.
- Federation of Information Professionals (FED-IP) membership.
- Significant knowledge of the Microsoft Power Platform suite.
- Knowledge of at least one automation implementation design methodology e.g. Agile, Six Sigma.
- Knowledge of XML, CSS, CSV.
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of using Automation software to build RPA solutions.
- Relevant experience working in a digital / IT environment.
- Relevant experience of using development environments, with experience in applying version control across environments.
- Significant experience of testing application systems using formal, structured procedures - e.g. using use cases, test plans, test scripts etc
- Experience and understanding of workflow-based logic and the ability to understand a business process from a workflow diagram or illustrate a written process as a workflow diagram
- Technical and functional understanding of Commercial Off-the-Shelf applications and/or other bespoke software deployed within the organisation
Desirable
- Proven record of finding innovative solutions to highly complex problems
- Experience of one or more of: Microsoft Server, Linux, Unix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle DBMA, LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory.
- Experience of applying business analysis techniques and methodologies to understand organisational business processes
- Understands the principles and application of cloud / virtualisation and the use of tools and systems to manage virtualised environments.
- Understands the concepts of software that enables the capture, create, population and manipulation of structured and unstructured data
- Experience of working in a highly regulated environment
Skills
Essential
- High standard of oral and written communication skills with the ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience
- Ability to provide guidance and support to less experienced team members
- Ability to identify opportunities to align technical strategies to operational needs,
- Sound judgment, decision making, and organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative, organise own workload, and deliver support and projects with minimal support
- Work with 3rd parties and suppliers to deliver the digital service and RPA solutions.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, looks for opportunities to improve services, staff, and self.
- Ability to engage with and motivate diverse audiences.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
- Aptitude for problem solving complex issues, with the ability to take a logical route to the source of an error.
- Use facilitation skills ability to bring others together to work jointly in pursuit of a shared outcome
- Adaptable to change
- Willingness to develop and learn new technologies
Other
Essential
- Desirable (but not essential): Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
