Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Digital Business Partner

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Job summary

Are you interested in working in the digital space? Passionate about improving health and care through providing digital support services and helping to future proof our NHS through Digital Transformation? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team.

We are looking for a highly motivated and driven individual with exceptional communication and organisational skills and someone who is eager to help our end users engage with NHIS to meet their business requirements, be that running account reviews, managing business relations, providing IT solutions, getting out to meet service users, and creating strategy and direction for IT requirements. We are a collaborative team, working across different local organisations to achieve shared goals, ultimately to provide the highest level of patient care possible.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for one full-time post supporting NHIS in the role of Digital Business Partner.

Our vision is to help transform care by being an integrated provider of ICT services and support, delivering a high-quality professional service that links strategy, innovation and technology for our local Health and Social care community.

Apply now to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Details

Date posted

12 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-NHIS-6781675

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge, training and experience in ICT.
  • Effective empathy and persuasive skills.
  • Ability to negotiate.
  • Ability to work with supplier contracts/costs.
  • Advanced keyboard skills.
  • Microsoft Office - advanced use.
  • Ability to act and work flexibly and on own initiative
  • Ability to concentrate in stressful situations and when interrupted.

Desirable

  • Knowledge/appreciation of the ICT requirements of CCGs, GP IT and Acute Care
  • Experience/knowledge of: PRINCE2/ITIL.
  • Data Protection Act
  • Freedom of Information Act.
  • GMS Contract.
  • GPSoC Contract

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience.
  • Microsoft Office

Experience

Essential

  • Managerial experience in ICT
  • Extensive ICT experience
  • Experience of communicating and explaining ICT issues
  • Experience of negotiating with suppliers
  • Experience of purchasing
  • Experience of managing projects
  • Experience of inter-organisational working
  • Organising and chairing meetings
  • Effective written and oral communication skills.

Contractual

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
  • The ability to travel between NHIS sites.
Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge, training and experience in ICT.
  • Effective empathy and persuasive skills.
  • Ability to negotiate.
  • Ability to work with supplier contracts/costs.
  • Advanced keyboard skills.
  • Microsoft Office - advanced use.
  • Ability to act and work flexibly and on own initiative
  • Ability to concentrate in stressful situations and when interrupted.

Desirable

  • Knowledge/appreciation of the ICT requirements of CCGs, GP IT and Acute Care
  • Experience/knowledge of: PRINCE2/ITIL.
  • Data Protection Act
  • Freedom of Information Act.
  • GMS Contract.
  • GPSoC Contract

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience.
  • Microsoft Office

Experience

Essential

  • Managerial experience in ICT
  • Extensive ICT experience
  • Experience of communicating and explaining ICT issues
  • Experience of negotiating with suppliers
  • Experience of purchasing
  • Experience of managing projects
  • Experience of inter-organisational working
  • Organising and chairing meetings
  • Effective written and oral communication skills.

Contractual

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
  • The ability to travel between NHIS sites.

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

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Senior Digital Business Partner

Charla Kearsley

Charla.Kearsley@nhs.net

07736846892

Details

Date posted

12 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-NHIS-6781675

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Rd

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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