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Digital Health and Care Wales

Programme Lead

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Job summary

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is an organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.

Working in a challenging environment, you will face a variety of competing priorities that will require a flexible and imaginative approach combined with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.The post holder will need knowledge and expertise leading a programme, in a complex organisation.

We have two fantastic senior opportunities for you to join DHCW and help us transform health and care through digital innovation. Both positions are Programme Leads:

Programme Lead: Planned Care

Programme Lead: Urgent and Emergency Care

The successful candidates will be DHCW's strategic leads for national initiatives in Planned care or Urgent and Emergency Care respectively.

We are looking to recruit highly motivated individuals that care about and are committed to delivering digital solutions for NHS staff and patients in Wales. Together we will improve access to clinical information, enabling safer and more effective care; supported by modern information and digital technologies.

Main duties of the job

To be the DHCW lead on national strategic programmes delivering digital solutions and services to NHS Wales.

To lead, provide structure, and manage the co-ordinated organisation, direction, and implementation of a dossier of complex transformational projects and activities of significant size, complexity, and risk to achieve outcomes and realise benefits of strategic importance to NHS Wales.

This will include as the major focus of the role, the development of the strategic programme plans for complex national digital programmes, as NHS Wales transitions to digitise clinical processes on an All-Wales basis.

The postholders will manage teams of programme and project staff engaged delivering digital change to NHS Wales.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.

Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.

Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.

Details

Date posted

05 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£71,473 to £82,355 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

025-AC036-0324

Job locations

Hybrid working

Location to be confirmed at interview

CF11 9AD


Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

  • Educated to master's level or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience in a senior management role in the field of programme management and / or significant senior management experience for the relevant programme

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Capable of understanding the wider organisation objectives in its context within current National policy and strategic direction.
  • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to a wide range of stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
  • Proven experience and ability to handle complex management decisions which require excellent analytical, judgmental and communication skills.

Desirable

  • Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading and writing in Welsh
Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

  • Educated to master's level or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience in a senior management role in the field of programme management and / or significant senior management experience for the relevant programme

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Capable of understanding the wider organisation objectives in its context within current National policy and strategic direction.
  • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to a wide range of stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
  • Proven experience and ability to handle complex management decisions which require excellent analytical, judgmental and communication skills.

Desirable

  • Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading and writing in Welsh

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Digital Health and Care Wales

Address

Hybrid working

Location to be confirmed at interview

CF11 9AD


Employer's website

https://nwis.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Digital Health and Care Wales

Address

Hybrid working

Location to be confirmed at interview

CF11 9AD


Employer's website

https://nwis.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Chief Operating Officer

Michelle Sell

michelle.sell@wales.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

05 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£71,473 to £82,355 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

025-AC036-0324

Job locations

Hybrid working

Location to be confirmed at interview

CF11 9AD


Supporting documents

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