Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Digital Business Partner

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Job summary

Are you interested in working in the digital space? Passionate about improving health and care through providing digital support services and helping to future proof our NHS through Digital Transformation? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team.

We are looking for a highly motivated and driven individual with exceptional communication and organisational skills, someone who is eager to help our end users engage with NHIS to meet their business requirements. This role is all about running service reviews, managing business relations, providing IT solutions, getting out to meet service users, and creating strategy and direction for IT requirements. We are a collaborative team, working across different local organisations to achieve shared goals, ultimately to provide the highest level of patient care possible.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 posts on a full-time basis supporting NHIS in the role of a Senior Digital Business Partner.

Main duties of the job

This role sits within the Strategy and Delivery Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of NHIS. The main objective of the Strategy and Delivery SBU is the delivery of Digital Transformation, project support and business change aligned to local and National digital Strategies. We support digital transformation on all levels, from end-to-end delivery of new digital systems, processes, and functionality as well as routine upgrades and training on existing digital systems, we aim to ensure the continuation of normal service with minimal business impact to our customers. Our vision is to help transform care by being an integrated provider of ICT services and support, delivering a high-quality professional service that links strategy, innovation and technology for our local Health and Social care community. We aim to bring to life the local ICS ambitions of a joined-up health and social care economy that is not constrained by boundaries, a landscape where systems are integrated, allowing professionals to make fully informed choices within a digitally enabled culture that is efficient, safe, and secure.

The Digital Business Team's main remit is to foster the relationship between the Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS) and its existing customer base, ensuring that the products and services provided, along with the associated performance is efficient, continues to remain effective and meeting the needs of the client organisations.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and were the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England. Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Details

Date posted

21 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

214-CEN-6531457

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge, training and experience in ICT
  • Effective empathy and persuasive skills
  • Ability to negotiate
  • Ability to work with supplier contracts/costs
  • Advanced keyboard skills
  • Microsoft Office - advanced use
  • Ability to act and work flexibly and on own initiative
  • Ability to concentrate in stressful situations and when interrupted

Desirable

  • Knowledge/appreciation of the ICT requirements of CCGs, GP IT and Acute Care
  • Experience/knowledge of: PRINCE2/ITIL
  • Data Protection Act
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • GMS Contract.
  • GPSoC Contract

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
  • Microsoft Office qualification e.g. ECDL advanced or MOS

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of Staff Management
  • Extensive ICT experience
  • Experience of communicating and explaining ICT issues
  • Experience of negotiating with suppliers
  • Experience of purchasing
  • Experience of managing projects
  • Experience of inter-organisational working
  • Organising and chairing meetings
  • Effective written and oral communication skills

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
  • The ability to travel between NHIS sites
Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge, training and experience in ICT
  • Effective empathy and persuasive skills
  • Ability to negotiate
  • Ability to work with supplier contracts/costs
  • Advanced keyboard skills
  • Microsoft Office - advanced use
  • Ability to act and work flexibly and on own initiative
  • Ability to concentrate in stressful situations and when interrupted

Desirable

  • Knowledge/appreciation of the ICT requirements of CCGs, GP IT and Acute Care
  • Experience/knowledge of: PRINCE2/ITIL
  • Data Protection Act
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • GMS Contract.
  • GPSoC Contract

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
  • Microsoft Office qualification e.g. ECDL advanced or MOS

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of Staff Management
  • Extensive ICT experience
  • Experience of communicating and explaining ICT issues
  • Experience of negotiating with suppliers
  • Experience of purchasing
  • Experience of managing projects
  • Experience of inter-organisational working
  • Organising and chairing meetings
  • Effective written and oral communication skills

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
  • The ability to travel between NHIS sites

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

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Technical Liaison Digital Business Partner

Daniel Smith

Daniel.Smith@notts-his.nhs.uk

07876089679

Details

Date posted

21 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

214-CEN-6531457

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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