Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer (Band 8d)

Job description

Job responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

STRATEGIC

As a member of Senior Management Team, you will help develop the Team's strategic direction, and contribute to the overall leadership, direction and management of the Team.

Establish effective relationships with systems supplier's team, exploiting change expertise available from the supplier's team and other supplier's Trusts.

In conjunction with the CDIO and CCIO making executive decisions on behalf of the Trusts technological requirements

To provide exemplar technical and professional support on a wide range of information, technology and data legislation, with a focus on Digital Governance.

Support delivery of the Trust strategy with special attention to cross-organisational issues and work flows.

Represent the Trust within the NHS and wider community and with partner organisations, and working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of patient care.

Support the CDIO as the Trusts lead on digital systems planning across the wider health and social care system at Place Act As One and within the West Yorkshire and Harrogate and Yorkshire ICS, West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts and the North East and Yorkshire Region.

TACTICAL

Responsible for providing appropriate professional development and guidance to the senior team and the wider teams.

Lead on the integration of digital systems with business, service and financial planning

To work with Executive and Deputy Directors, Service managers and clinicians to identify and deliver opportunities to implement best practice to ensure the Trust is a high performer against all known local, national and international benchmarks including but not limited to Model Hospital and Getting it Right First Time programmes

Commission and conduct research into specific areas of digital informatics activity, including technical solutions, data provision, employee/citizen engagement, legislation, policy, benchmarking and good practice

OPERATIONAL

Direct the overall implementation of the EPR and the projects that sit within this, supported by the EPR programme manager

Ensure all returns to external bodies are completed and integrated with financial returns. This includes returns to NHS England, the ICBl as well as ad hoc information to other external bodies.

Deputise for the Chief Digital and Information Officer, including attendance at internal and external meetings (e.g., Executive Directors Group, Board meetings, Y & H Directors Forum, etc.)

Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of a large scale technical and operational team

Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of the IT Infrastructure, Application and Integration, and Asset and Licensing teams

Monitor the performance and utilisation of Digital and Information systems across the organisation and support the introduction of remedial steps where necessary.

Actively contribute to the realisation of benefits from delivering different ways of working enabled by delivery of digital transformation

Overall accountability for the EPR and Digital transformation programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track

Establish and sustain systems and processes for the management of risk, change control and issue resolution processes

Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders

To ensure that there is a consistent approach to transformational efficiency planning and delivery so that there is a continuous pipeline of potential schemes to include service redesign and which will positively transform systems

Work with programme and Trust colleagues to embed change and improvement methodologies that can be used throughout the Digital division to promote transformation

Ensure systems and processes are in place to Identify programme resources required to successfully deliver change and to liaise with relevant Manager(s) to ensure availability and allocation

Perform any other duties commensurate with the grade of post as delegated by the Chief Digital and Information Officer

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Master's degree or degree level plus significant in-depth experience at a senior level and training equivalent to master's level Management qualification Recent experience of working at senior management level in an acute NHS Trust. Fellow of Professional Body Evidence of further training in Business, Programme and Project Management

Desirable

• Management qualification
• Recent experience of working at senior management level in an acute NHS Trust
• Fellow of Professional Body
• Evidence of further training in Business, Programme and Project Management

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience post qualification in a senior management position dealing with strategic, financial and governance issues
• Extensive experience of the development and operational delivery of Information Technology at a senior level
• Experience of both Programme and Project Management including a PMO function
• Experiencing in managing a large scale, complex Business or IT department, focused on the ongoing transformation of products and services
• Significant experience, knowledge, theory and practical delivery of major change and improvement programmes or equivalent
• Experience of developing complex and significant business case proposals and ensuring they are delivered
• Knowledge of Digital health systems and their use across a large, complex organisation, including EHRs
• Experience of ensuring organisational financial targets are delivered
• Extensive experience of delivering major contract negotiations

Desirable

• Knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory duties as an NHS Trust
• Expert knowledge of a range of NHS digital and informatics policy and practice and the relationship to the Trust's business objectives
• Highly developed awareness of social, political, financial and business issues affecting the NHS

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Skipton Road

Keighley

BD20 6TD

Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)