Job summary
We are looking for an ambitious and influential leader that demonstrates the vision and leadership qualities to support significant digital transformation and innovation within the Trust.
You will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of our Digital Strategy, which will involve Digital Architecture, Solution Design & Application Development, and Digital Systems Integration. This will involve in-depth planning and subject expertise to deliver the Trust's next steps and identify digital solutions.
You will have the opportunity to work with senior stakeholders both internally and externally of the Trust and will play an integral role in the strategic development and delivery of various technologies, including the Trust's Digital application architecture and patient-facing applications. Additionally, you will contribute to the CARE values of the Trust, promoting a culture based on improvement, innovation, and understanding.
Interviews and stakeholder events will be scheduled for the week commencing 7th November 2022.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Chief Information Officer will play a critical role in supporting the Information and Technology Director/Chief Information Officer in the full range of their responsibilities, including identifying opportunities to develop digital innovation across the Trust as well as the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (BOB ICS).
Alongside these duties, you will provide leadership to teams within Digital Technology, providing direction and expertise to staff, whilst building strong relationships to support the Trust's aims. You will be responsible for budgetary management, which includes securing internal funding, managing project budgets, and identifying opportunities for cost savings.
In return, you could play a vital role as part of an upward journey in which there is both permission and support to be innovative to ensure that the Trust achieve their exciting digital objectives.
At Royal Berkshire NHS FT, we recognise the importance of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We want everyone to feel welcomed, respected, and accepted for who they are. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.
About us
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts across England, and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for a population of over 500,000 people across West Berkshire. We employ approximately 5,500 members of staff, and deliver a range of featured services, including Children and Young People Care, Maternity Services, and a Cancer Centre. We operate across seven sites, including Royal Berkshire Hospital, Prince Charles Eye Unit, and West Berkshire Community Hospital.
The services and support we offer is based upon the CARE values our staff represent: being compassionate, aspirational, resourceful, and excellent, which we believe are integral to delivering high-quality care to patients and improving our services.
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts across England, and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for a population of over 500,000 people across West Berkshire. We employ approximately 5,500 members of staff, and deliver a range of featured services, including Children and Young People Care, Maternity Services, and a Cancer Centre. We operate across seven sites, including Royal Berkshire Hospital, Prince Charles Eye Unit, and West Berkshire Community Hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Alongside these duties, you will provide leadership to teams within Digital Technology, providing direction and expertise to staff, whilst building strong relationships to support with the Trusts digital aims. You will be responsible for budgetary management, which includes securing internal funding, managing project budgets, and identifying opportunities for cost savings and income generation.
In return, you could play a vital role as part of an upward journey in which there is both permission and support to be innovative to ensure that the Trust achieve their exciting digital objectives.
At Royal Berkshire NHS FT, we recognise the importance of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We want everyone to feel welcomed, respected, and accepted for who they are. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.
The Deputy CIO is a pivotal role in delivering the Trusts ambitious Digital Programme. This requires an in-depth knowledge of emerging technology, drawing on developments across the technical spectrum not only those in healthcare, and supporting the cross-fertilisation of ideas in design solutions.
The post holder is the Trusts primary advisor (Subject Matter Expert, SME) in navigating the external Digital solution landscape and playing a key role in securing, where possible, multi-million-pound external funding and ensuring systems are delivered to optimise patient care. The role extends beyond the Trust to encompass the wider health economy across a patient / client base of several million population ensuring optimal Technical design of Information Architecture, Solutions Design and Systems Integration to allow secure information sharing and direct access via a patient portal.
The post holder is responsible for identifying Digital, often innovative, solutions that will improve patient services and work with senior operational and business colleagues in bringing these solutions to successful implementation.
The post holder will deliver Digital solutions keeping the Trusts CARE values of compassionate, aspirational, resourceful, and excellent at the centre of their implementation for the benefit of patients and other service users.
The role leads for the Trust in achieving target levels on external digital assessments including Healthcare Informationand Management Systems Society (HIMSS) digital maturity criteria and the Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) to support the Trusts aspirations to achieve Global Digital Exemplar status (Digital Maturity HIMSS level 6).
To support the hugely increased and continually increasing dependence on Digital in the Trust the role must ensure the ongoing development and management of a flexible and fully resilient 24/7 Digital Application Support Function.
Contact
If you would like a further discussion on the role, in the first instance please contact our executive search partner Finn McNulty at Hunter Healthcare on fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Alongside these duties, you will provide leadership to teams within Digital Technology, providing direction and expertise to staff, whilst building strong relationships to support with the Trusts digital aims. You will be responsible for budgetary management, which includes securing internal funding, managing project budgets, and identifying opportunities for cost savings and income generation.
In return, you could play a vital role as part of an upward journey in which there is both permission and support to be innovative to ensure that the Trust achieve their exciting digital objectives.
At Royal Berkshire NHS FT, we recognise the importance of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We want everyone to feel welcomed, respected, and accepted for who they are. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.
The Deputy CIO is a pivotal role in delivering the Trusts ambitious Digital Programme. This requires an in-depth knowledge of emerging technology, drawing on developments across the technical spectrum not only those in healthcare, and supporting the cross-fertilisation of ideas in design solutions.
The post holder is the Trusts primary advisor (Subject Matter Expert, SME) in navigating the external Digital solution landscape and playing a key role in securing, where possible, multi-million-pound external funding and ensuring systems are delivered to optimise patient care. The role extends beyond the Trust to encompass the wider health economy across a patient / client base of several million population ensuring optimal Technical design of Information Architecture, Solutions Design and Systems Integration to allow secure information sharing and direct access via a patient portal.
The post holder is responsible for identifying Digital, often innovative, solutions that will improve patient services and work with senior operational and business colleagues in bringing these solutions to successful implementation.
The post holder will deliver Digital solutions keeping the Trusts CARE values of compassionate, aspirational, resourceful, and excellent at the centre of their implementation for the benefit of patients and other service users.
The role leads for the Trust in achieving target levels on external digital assessments including Healthcare Informationand Management Systems Society (HIMSS) digital maturity criteria and the Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) to support the Trusts aspirations to achieve Global Digital Exemplar status (Digital Maturity HIMSS level 6).
To support the hugely increased and continually increasing dependence on Digital in the Trust the role must ensure the ongoing development and management of a flexible and fully resilient 24/7 Digital Application Support Function.
Contact
If you would like a further discussion on the role, in the first instance please contact our executive search partner Finn McNulty at Hunter Healthcare on fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare .
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post graduate education or significant equivalent experience of about 7/10 years relevant to the role. This expertise to include IM&T infrastructure development, informatics provision in a health environment and leadership of diverse teams delivering enterprise-wide functions.
- PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification or experience of working in large PRINCE2 programmes
Experience
Essential
- Interpreting national and local strategy to inform development of solutions for NHS requirements.
- Successful track record of senior roles for successful implementation of major NHS healthcare projects
- Partnership working across NHS & supplier boundaries.
- Working with and influencing national/ professional bodies.
- Track Record of success in a strategic or corporate management role.
- Significant experience of team working and of working across team and sector boundaries.
Skills / Knowledge / Attitude and Behaviour
Essential
- Highly articulate and numerate with skills in analysing & evaluating information to stimulate performance and financial improvements via the use of technological solutions.
- Demonstrates the Trust CARE values
- Highly advanced interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify & overcome resistance to change
- Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation through challenging negotiations.
- Business acumen with skills in strategic planning & development.
- Strategic planning and programme management for large projects.
- Strategic planning and programme management for large projects.
- Technically expert in healthcare systems
- In depth knowledge of healthcare workflows & underlying business requirements across all components of an acute NHS Trust and wider health sectors.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post graduate education or significant equivalent experience of about 7/10 years relevant to the role. This expertise to include IM&T infrastructure development, informatics provision in a health environment and leadership of diverse teams delivering enterprise-wide functions.
- PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification or experience of working in large PRINCE2 programmes
Experience
Essential
- Interpreting national and local strategy to inform development of solutions for NHS requirements.
- Successful track record of senior roles for successful implementation of major NHS healthcare projects
- Partnership working across NHS & supplier boundaries.
- Working with and influencing national/ professional bodies.
- Track Record of success in a strategic or corporate management role.
- Significant experience of team working and of working across team and sector boundaries.
Skills / Knowledge / Attitude and Behaviour
Essential
- Highly articulate and numerate with skills in analysing & evaluating information to stimulate performance and financial improvements via the use of technological solutions.
- Demonstrates the Trust CARE values
- Highly advanced interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify & overcome resistance to change
- Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation through challenging negotiations.
- Business acumen with skills in strategic planning & development.
- Strategic planning and programme management for large projects.
- Strategic planning and programme management for large projects.
- Technically expert in healthcare systems
- In depth knowledge of healthcare workflows & underlying business requirements across all components of an acute NHS Trust and wider health sectors.
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.
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
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).
