Digital and Transformation Lead

South Warwickshire GP Federation

The closing date is 04 April 2025

Job summary

Digital and Transformation Lead Arden PCN

South Warwickshire GP Federation

Salary: dependent on experience

Job type: Part Time, 7.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Location: The successful candidate will be required to travel between/or based at Arden PCN's seven practices. Due to the geography and nature of the role a clean UK driving license and full use of car is essential.

Main duties of the job

Improve adoption and/or optimisation of new technology to enhance patient access and experience and increase PCN productivity.

Build relationships and facilitate collaboration between practices and the wider system to support the delivery of care to patients (including shared appointments between practices to aid delivery of enhanced access).

Lead an improvement approach to change including building capability for quality improvement within the PCN and system wide approaches to problem solving

Review and improve the PCNs digital maturity.

Use data, and improve data quality to understand demand, capacity and activity, hit government set targets Digital & Transformation.

Drive improvements in patient experiences of access.

Support population health management.

Support understanding of the type and intensity of support/training needs of the PCN and coordinate this support, including through OD programmes.

Facilitate clinically led innovation and the effective adoption of improvement initiatives, including integrated working at neighborhood and/or place level to improve access to services for patients.

About us

SWGP Federation is made up of GP practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.

o 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

o NHS Pension

o Health & Wellbeing support

o Vivup Employee Assistance Programme

o Bike2work Scheme

TheArden PCNconsists of the following practices.Tanworth in Arden Medical Centre

Lapworth Surgery

Henley In Arden Medical Centre

Pool Medical Centre- Pool Road

Budbrooke Medical Centre

Alcester Health Centre

Arrow Surgery

Date posted

20 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£9,049 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0062-25-0008

Job locations

Gainsborough Hall

Russell Street

Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

CV32 5QB


Job description

Job responsibilities

Arden PCNare looking to recruit a Digital and Transformation Lead to join their team.As Digital and Transformation lead you would be expected to support increased access to care for patients, by supporting the adoption and/or optimisation of new technology and other initiatives to improve the care offer and enabling PCN staff to work more effectively to support the sustainability of general practice services.

You will work collaboratively with other members of the PCN leadership team and the digital function provided by the local GP Federation to agree priorities, with a focus on achieving effective and efficient ways of working.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Arden PCNare looking to recruit a Digital and Transformation Lead to join their team.As Digital and Transformation lead you would be expected to support increased access to care for patients, by supporting the adoption and/or optimisation of new technology and other initiatives to improve the care offer and enabling PCN staff to work more effectively to support the sustainability of general practice services.

You will work collaboratively with other members of the PCN leadership team and the digital function provided by the local GP Federation to agree priorities, with a focus on achieving effective and efficient ways of working.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
  • Extensive experience of leading change projects.
  • Extensive experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
  • Previous experience of managing budgets for complex programmes of work, including budget setting and monitoring.
  • Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
  • Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
  • Good working Knowledge of Emis.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
  • Ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
  • Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.

Desirable

  • Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent working experience at this level.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
  • Extensive experience of leading change projects.
  • Extensive experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
  • Previous experience of managing budgets for complex programmes of work, including budget setting and monitoring.
  • Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
  • Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
  • Good working Knowledge of Emis.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
  • Ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
  • Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.

Desirable

  • Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent working experience at this level.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire GP Federation

Address

Gainsborough Hall

Russell Street

Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

CV32 5QB


Employer's website

https://www.southwarwickshiregps.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire GP Federation

Address

Gainsborough Hall

Russell Street

Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

CV32 5QB


Employer's website

https://www.southwarwickshiregps.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Date posted

20 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£9,049 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0062-25-0008

Job locations

Gainsborough Hall

Russell Street

Leamington Spa

Warwickshire

CV32 5QB


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