Job summary
We are recruiting for a Senior Digital Delivery Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Senior Digital Delivery Manager (SDDM) is responsible for the delivery of digital services and solutions that realise ENHT's strategic direction and enhDigital roadmap. They write business cases, plan, manage risk, negotiate, influence, and resolve conflicts to implement a project.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
The SDDM writes business cases, plans, manages risk, negotiates, influences, and resolves conflicts to implement a project. They will also be responsible for developing the Delivery practice, including roadmap prioritisation, development of tools and methods and representing the function inside and outside the Trust.
You will be one of a small team of digital delivery managers and you will be recognised by the clinical service teams we support. The role is senior but also hands on, including business change work.
While this role requires appreciation of technology, change delivery skills, stakeholder management and insight into what digital solutions offer are the essential competences. Technical experience is desirable, not required.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Able to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean processes
- Practitioner level understanding of PRINCE2 methodology and control documentation or equivalent
- Highly proficient Experience of using Microsoft project management tools to a high level of proficiency
- Proficient user of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Vision
- Commitment and willingness to undertake on-going training and development
Experience / Skills
Essential
- Experience of effectively communicating the strategy to the broader team and stakeholders, including explaining the impact of the strategy on the work area, the rationale behind the strategy where there may be substantial barriers to acceptance.
- Proven ability and experience of demonstrating strong credible, professional leadership skills including the provision of clear direction, motivating and inspiring others to overcome obstacles of delivery, and providing a culture of empowerment, accountability and recognition.
- Proven track record of success in challenging and influencing established beliefs and behaviour to deliver major change when there is no direct line of command or control, or where there is significant resistance to change.
- Uses knowledge of audience views and interests, chooses and employs diverse methods, tools, and resources to educate and build enthusiasm in potential partners and supporters
- Experience evaluating and implementing complex business processes.
- Experience developing effective working relationships with project teams to ensure optimum outcome for the project.
- Experience in taking the organisation through the digital transformation.
- The ability to facilitate to both a technical and non-technical audience.
- Able to influence business customers to adopt the most appropriate approach to achieve their business needs.
- Influence individuals or groups from other business areas, in order that solutions or requirements are clearly identified and appropriate actions implemented.
Desirable
- IT experience gained in both and Acute and Community setting.
- Background in a commercial organisation
- Experience of liaising with clinicians
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Effective decision maker
- Excellent Change Manager
- Excellent Risk Manager
- Assertive not abrasive
- Time Management
- Excellent analytical and judgement skills
- Professional approach with staff and customers
Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of managing large multi-disciplinary teams including the deployment of key resource, the development of capability including highly-skilled performance management techniques, management of succession planning and robust people management practice that improves organisational productivity and efficiency.
- Advanced credible communicator, with the ability to use a variety of communication tools to convey, negotiate and challenge complex information to a large range of internal and external audiences often at senior management/director level.
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Able to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean processes
- Practitioner level understanding of PRINCE2 methodology and control documentation or equivalent
- Highly proficient Experience of using Microsoft project management tools to a high level of proficiency
- Proficient user of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Vision
- Commitment and willingness to undertake on-going training and development
Experience / Skills
Essential
- Experience of effectively communicating the strategy to the broader team and stakeholders, including explaining the impact of the strategy on the work area, the rationale behind the strategy where there may be substantial barriers to acceptance.
- Proven ability and experience of demonstrating strong credible, professional leadership skills including the provision of clear direction, motivating and inspiring others to overcome obstacles of delivery, and providing a culture of empowerment, accountability and recognition.
- Proven track record of success in challenging and influencing established beliefs and behaviour to deliver major change when there is no direct line of command or control, or where there is significant resistance to change.
- Uses knowledge of audience views and interests, chooses and employs diverse methods, tools, and resources to educate and build enthusiasm in potential partners and supporters
- Experience evaluating and implementing complex business processes.
- Experience developing effective working relationships with project teams to ensure optimum outcome for the project.
- Experience in taking the organisation through the digital transformation.
- The ability to facilitate to both a technical and non-technical audience.
- Able to influence business customers to adopt the most appropriate approach to achieve their business needs.
- Influence individuals or groups from other business areas, in order that solutions or requirements are clearly identified and appropriate actions implemented.
Desirable
- IT experience gained in both and Acute and Community setting.
- Background in a commercial organisation
- Experience of liaising with clinicians
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Effective decision maker
- Excellent Change Manager
- Excellent Risk Manager
- Assertive not abrasive
- Time Management
- Excellent analytical and judgement skills
- Professional approach with staff and customers
Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of managing large multi-disciplinary teams including the deployment of key resource, the development of capability including highly-skilled performance management techniques, management of succession planning and robust people management practice that improves organisational productivity and efficiency.
- Advanced credible communicator, with the ability to use a variety of communication tools to convey, negotiate and challenge complex information to a large range of internal and external audiences often at senior management/director level.
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
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.
