Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen as for a Associate Technical Director who will lead the Trust's Digital technical services at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking a highly organised and confident Associate Technical Director who will lead the technical elements of the Digital Directorate to drive forward digital transformation across the Trust ensuring processes, business models and technologies are modernised and digitalised to meet the changing and varying needs of services users and the NHS workforce. The role will translate strategy into practical solutions built around the patient experience and be accountable for the delivery of solution-focused technical programmes. This is an exciting role and opportunity to the Trust's Digital technical services working with a diverse range of clinical services.
Full details can be found within the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Closing date: 03-Dec-2023 at Midnight
Proposed interview date: 11-Dec-2023
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work with the Chief Digital & Infrastructure Officer and Senior Colleagues within the Digital Directorate in identifying and harnessing the opportunity presented by technology to deliver the Trust's wider strategic objectives, which includes service innovation and transformation together with improved efficiency and productivity. This part of the role will require the post holder to represent the Trust's and its interests in cross Lancashire Digital collaboration.
The role will lead the technical elements of the Digital Directorate to drive forward digital transformation across the Trust ensuring processes, business models and technologies are modernised and digitalised to meet the changing and varying needs of services users and the NHS workforce. The role will translate strategy into practical solutions built around the patient experience and be accountable for the delivery of solution-focused programmes.
This role will also play a key role in improving and transforming services at a local and system wide level, developing and maintaining effective relationships with all key stakeholders to ensure their engagement in designing digital solutions for clinical services around patients.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters and / or relevant experience
Knowledge
Essential
- ITIL Expert, PRINCE2 or other Project Management methodologies
- CISSP
- Cyber Incident Planning & Response (CIPR)
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working a senior level in a large and complex organisation
- Significant experience running IT support functions in large and complex organisations
- Significant experience of strategic planning to support wider organisational objectives
- Experience of managing high value budgets and business planning processes
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders across multi agencies as required
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skill
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Experience of creating and giving presentations on extremely complex, multi- stranded information to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters and / or relevant experience
Knowledge
Essential
- ITIL Expert, PRINCE2 or other Project Management methodologies
- CISSP
- Cyber Incident Planning & Response (CIPR)
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working a senior level in a large and complex organisation
- Significant experience running IT support functions in large and complex organisations
- Significant experience of strategic planning to support wider organisational objectives
- Experience of managing high value budgets and business planning processes
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders across multi agencies as required
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skill
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Experience of creating and giving presentations on extremely complex, multi- stranded information to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
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).
