Job summary
Join the ICHT Redevelopment Programme and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare by driving digital transformation in our new buildings. As Redevelopment Digital Manager, you will lead the Trust's Redevelopment Programme Digital Strategy, ensuring our vision of digitally enabled, fully integrated buildings becomes a reality.
You will collaborate with ICT, Healthcare Planning, and strategic IT partners to embed advanced digital solutions into building design, workflows, and patient pathways. Responsibilities include setting design principles, developing enterprise architecture, horizon scanning for global best practices, and managing IT services during reconfiguration. You'll advocate for service and business improvement, ensuring that technology design aligns with operational models and supports innovative ways of working.
Your expertise will guide the integration of digital solutions into commissioning, post-occupancy evaluations, and ongoing support. Representing IT at key boards, you will ensure seamless alignment with the Trust's broader IT strategy.
This is your opportunity to lead a transformative programme in a forward-thinking environment. Be part of a team driving innovation, improving care, and shaping the future of healthcare.
Main duties of the job
As Redevelopment Digital Manager, you will lead the Trust's Digital Strategy for the Redevelopment Programme, ensuring our new buildings are digitally enabled and seamlessly integrated with the IT strategy. You will collaborate with the ICT Team to define design principles and ensure digital solutions improve staff workflows, patient experiences, and operational efficiency.
Your role involves working with the Healthcare Planning Team to transform clinical pathways and ways of working, leveraging opportunities provided by new hospital designs. You will develop enterprise architecture that aligns with the IM&T strategy, supports strategic goals, and reflects best practices from horizon scanning of global innovations.
You will manage plans to maintain IT services in residual buildings during reconfiguration and engage vendors and partners to ensure robust digital solutions are embedded in design, construction, commissioning, and post-occupancy evaluations.
Representing IT on Programme and Project Boards, you will ensure full integration with the wider IT agenda, identifying and managing risks, issues, and actions, and maintaining transparent reporting. You will also oversee the digital aspects of building systems and ensure compliance, efficiency, and alignment with target operating models, driving service improvement through innovative digital transformation.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- oMasters level qualification in a technology or computer science discipline; or equivalent experience
- oQualified Prince 2 Foundation
- oOngoing self-led programme of continuous personal development
Desirable
- oManagement qualification
- oPrince 2 qualified or training for qualification.
- oKnowledge of IT architecture frameworks
- oProfessionally recognised IM&T qualification (Cisco, Microsoft etc)
- oTOGAF certified
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum 5 years design and implementation experience in a senior level IT architecture, digital health and/or IT infrastructure role
- oDemonstrable success in a minimum of two of the following disciplines: IT infrastructure, applied mobile technologies, digital health, medical equipment technology, network and telephony design, virtualisation (end user compute/server side), smart buildings
- oExperience of major system procurement
- oPolicy review, development and implementation
- oExpert in the development and management of service level agreements, commercial contracts and account management
- oLeading an IT Transformation agenda/project
- oExperience managing large scale highly complex and highly sensitive programmes and projects that require significant clinical and executive engagement for success
- oExperience managing Capital and revenue budgets over £1m
- oResearching, analysing and presenting information to Executives and Board members
- oSuccessfully managing a diverse team
Desirable
- oNHS / public sector experience
- oExperience of IT infrastructure building projects through design, procurement, fit out and live phases
- oExperience working with senior clinicians
- oExperience working with architectural design professionals
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- oEmploys effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable an effective change management with stakeholders at all levels who may hold differing and contentious views
- oAble to build relationships across organisational boundaries and share learning and blueprinting with peers and central teams
- oAwareness of personal and political sensitivities and ability to adapt accordingly.
- oUnderstanding of national, regional and local priorities and ability to lead service accordingly
- oCommitment to the adherence and promotion of equality and diversity
- oCommunicates effectively in writing, including formal report writing, designing & delivering development programmes for colleagues
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- oMasters level qualification in a technology or computer science discipline; or equivalent experience
- oQualified Prince 2 Foundation
- oOngoing self-led programme of continuous personal development
Desirable
- oManagement qualification
- oPrince 2 qualified or training for qualification.
- oKnowledge of IT architecture frameworks
- oProfessionally recognised IM&T qualification (Cisco, Microsoft etc)
- oTOGAF certified
Experience
Essential
- oMinimum 5 years design and implementation experience in a senior level IT architecture, digital health and/or IT infrastructure role
- oDemonstrable success in a minimum of two of the following disciplines: IT infrastructure, applied mobile technologies, digital health, medical equipment technology, network and telephony design, virtualisation (end user compute/server side), smart buildings
- oExperience of major system procurement
- oPolicy review, development and implementation
- oExpert in the development and management of service level agreements, commercial contracts and account management
- oLeading an IT Transformation agenda/project
- oExperience managing large scale highly complex and highly sensitive programmes and projects that require significant clinical and executive engagement for success
- oExperience managing Capital and revenue budgets over £1m
- oResearching, analysing and presenting information to Executives and Board members
- oSuccessfully managing a diverse team
Desirable
- oNHS / public sector experience
- oExperience of IT infrastructure building projects through design, procurement, fit out and live phases
- oExperience working with senior clinicians
- oExperience working with architectural design professionals
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- oEmploys effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable an effective change management with stakeholders at all levels who may hold differing and contentious views
- oAble to build relationships across organisational boundaries and share learning and blueprinting with peers and central teams
- oAwareness of personal and political sensitivities and ability to adapt accordingly.
- oUnderstanding of national, regional and local priorities and ability to lead service accordingly
- oCommitment to the adherence and promotion of equality and diversity
- oCommunicates effectively in writing, including formal report writing, designing & delivering development programmes for colleagues
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).
