Head of Digital

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 November 2024

Job summary

Join the Digital Leadership Team at a World-Class Hospital!

Are you passionate about digital transformation in healthcare? Do you have the vision and leadership skills to drive innovation and operational excellence? Royal Papworth Hospital, renowned as a Top 100 Global Hospital, is looking for an experienced and dynamic Head of Digital to lead its prestigious, award-winning digital team.

The Role

As the Head of Digital, you will report directly to the Deputy CIO, assuming full responsibility for the operational management, performance, and compliance of the Digital department. This role is essential for smooth service delivery, to drive and deliver trust's Beyond Value Digital Strategy, and also to lead a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

What We Offer:

A leadership role in one of the UK's most respected hospitals.

A supportive and dynamic environment, where your expertise will have a direct impact on patient care and digital innovation.

A Continuous Professional Development

Hybrid working options with flexible home-based and office-based arrangements.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Digital Leadership: Provide strategic leadership to the Digital department, aligning our digital strategy with the Trust's broader objectives.

Service Management: Lead the continuous improvement of digital services, ensuring they are efficient, cost-effective, and meet the evolving needs of the Trust.

Team Development: Cultivate a positive and innovative work culture, mentoring and guiding a highly skilled digital team to deliver excellent IT services.

Digital Transformation: Oversee key digital transformation projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.

Governance & Compliance: Ensure the department complies with all regulations, including data protection, IT security, risk management and performance review

Financial Oversight: Manage digital budgets, including capital and revenue, Ensure that digital capital funding is spent as required and CIP targets are achieved by effectively allocating resources

What We're Looking For:

Proven leadership in digital transformation.

Strong understanding of ITIL Service Management, Managing successful Programme and Agile delivery methodologies and the ability to manage complex digital programmes and projects.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex digital concepts to diverse audiences.

Experience managing budgets and overseeing large-scale digital initiatives.

A commitment to fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

30 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£74,290 to £85,601 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

18 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2425-2-IT899

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters of Equivalent level qualification or experience.
MSP Qualified or equivalent experience
PRINCE2 Practitioner qualified of equivalent experience
ITIL Qualified of equivalent experience
Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
ECDL or equivalent experience

Desirable

BCS registered IT professional
Lean methods/Six Sigma or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

B2B/B2C delivery
In senior technology, and/or digital services in a medium to large enterprise in health or care setting
Experience of leading and managing teams
Budget setting/management
Strategy development
Commissioning and business case
Contracts management
Coaching teams and individuals
Managing stakeholders
Team development and leadership
Report writing
Presentation
Deliver to deadlines
Service Management and infrastructure
Programme and Project Management
Systems and applications
Highly articulate
Excellent in communication, written, verbal and in presentation
Highly developed interpersonal skills
Tenacious
Financial management and budget setting
An effective negotiator
Problem solving & Route cause analysis
High levels of integrity and accountability

Desirable

Working in a private setting in IT or in business
Experience of delivering large scale transformation
Landing contracts
Bid writing and business case development

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters of Equivalent level qualification or experience.
MSP Qualified or equivalent experience
PRINCE2 Practitioner qualified of equivalent experience
ITIL Qualified of equivalent experience
Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
ECDL or equivalent experience

Desirable

BCS registered IT professional
Lean methods/Six Sigma or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

B2B/B2C delivery
In senior technology, and/or digital services in a medium to large enterprise in health or care setting
Experience of leading and managing teams
Budget setting/management
Strategy development
Commissioning and business case
Contracts management
Coaching teams and individuals
Managing stakeholders
Team development and leadership
Report writing
Presentation
Deliver to deadlines
Service Management and infrastructure
Programme and Project Management
Systems and applications
Highly articulate
Excellent in communication, written, verbal and in presentation
Highly developed interpersonal skills
Tenacious
Financial management and budget setting
An effective negotiator
Problem solving & Route cause analysis
High levels of integrity and accountability

Desirable

Working in a private setting in IT or in business
Experience of delivering large scale transformation
Landing contracts
Bid writing and business case development

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

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.