Deputy Chief Information Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WHAT YOULL DO

You will develop, communicate, and deliver the UHS Digital Strategy, providing your expertise to the development of broader key strategies across the Trust.

Working with the CIO and the Digital leadership team, you will create, promote and lead service improvement into clinical and operational functions.

With your stakeholder engagement skills, you will work with our external partners across the region to align strategy and national policy, working collaboratively, always with the customer, our patients, at the heart of all we do

You will act as a senior advisor with significant expert knowledge on all Informatics services, supporting the CIO, the Executive Team, and the Trust Board.

You will have significant senior management experience in leading IT and digital services, with a proven track record of leading complex multi-million-pound portfolios, including large-scale contracts, technical business cases, procurement and service redesign

Working at scale in a customer-driven environment, from the private or public sector, you will have led and delivered complex business case development through to successful project delivery

With excellent interpersonal, team development, leadership and communications skills, you will be committed to building positive working partnerships with the Board, senior managers, staff and a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

You will be able to demonstrate and live our UHS Values and share our vision and direction for the division and the trust in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and compassion.

The closing date is 24th September 2023, and a shortlist meeting will be held on 3rd October. A Teams Stakeholder session will be held on Monday 9th October 2023.Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to a final panel interview at UHS on the 11th or 12th of October 2023.

For more information please see our candidate brief at:https://uhs-nhs.pagetiger.com/deputy-chief-information-officer/1

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in computer related/numerate subject.
• Educated to Master's degree or significant equivalent experience with highly specialist technical knowledge in relevant field.
• Project management qualification or demonstrable experience.

Desirable

• Prince II Project Management

knowledge and experience

Essential

• Complex multi-million-pound budget/project management.
• Significant proven and demonstrated experience as senior manager, head of service, programme lead or architect in IT / digital services.
• Knowledge of supplier community and account management.
• Experience of managing significant and highly complex contracts, which includes overall responsibility for the relationship as well as for individual projects or programmes to be delivered.
• Complex business case development
• Staff management experience at a senior level including change management and service [re]design.
• Procurement experience including options appraisal and selection of suppliers/authorising purchases.

Desirable

• ITIL Expert
• NHS systems, data and commissioning processes

Values and behaviours

Essential

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together

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.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

Address

Southampton General Hospital

Tremona Road

Southampton

SO16 6YD

Employer's website

https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)