Technical Product Owner

Job summary

A very exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Technical Product Owner to join us to support our ambitious plans for our Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS shared care record (ShCR). Whilst our ShCR programme has delivered significant benefits already, we want to continue to support bringing together more information from the electronic records held by the different places that our population receive care by developing a business as usual support team.

This pivotal post within our newly established ICS Digital Transformation function, predominantly but not exclusively for our ShCR, will be responsible for all of the technical design, configuration, implementation and support requirements and will be the subject matter expert for the ICB and our partners in systems technical architecture, systems technical strategy, technical approaches. The post holder will be our solutions expert for integration, interoperability and interfacing with additional wider system partners, examples being NHS, social care, VCFSE, pharmacy and beyond including other ICS's and any national connectivity or development roadmaps. The post holder will be technically competent and experienced and will demonstrate highly developed technical skills within a similar role .

Main duties of the job

The Technical Product Owner will plan and design all aspects of data from its input, collection, processing and storage to supporting a range of users to maximise data use and to identify, design and deliver the a data and insights strategy to focus in five main areas:-

I. Reducing the burden on clinicians and staff, so they can focus on patients.

II. Giving people the tools to access information and services directly.

III. Ensuring information can be safely accessed, wherever it is needed.

IV. Improving patient safety across the NHS; and

V. Improving NHS productivity with digital technology.

This will be delivered by: -

• Publish standards and specifications that drive interoperability of systems and collections of information to support the management of services.
• Ensure the ICS cyber security strategy considers data storage and transmission so that systems are secure and that information is held safely and working with partners as required
• Deliver a modern architecture for access to local systems and national services and to support the way local organisations work
• Deliver proof of concepts using disruptive technology and rapid innovation techniques to create new healthcare opportunities, digital pathways that accelerate the long-term plan and deliver meaningful value to patients quicker.

About us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.5 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.