Digital Director

Job summary

Kettering General Hospital is seeking to appoint a high impact, compassionate Digital Director, responsible to our Hospital Chief Executive for execution of strategy/day to day operational matters and professionally accountable to the Group Chief Digital Information Officer for delivery of Group strategic goals.

Kettering General Hospital is part of the University of Northamptonshire Hospitals Group along with our sister Trust, Northampton General Hospital. Our two organisations are embarking on an exciting journey. Having recently become a university hospitals group serving the whole of Northamptonshire and beyond, together, we will develop hospitals to be proud of by delivering centres of excellence for clinical care and being an inclusive and collaborative employer offering great opportunities for colleagues. Our group ambition is to attract, retain and develop the country's top talent.

The key responsibility of the Digital Director is to provide vision and technical leadership in the delivery of the digital and technology aims of each Trust, aligned to the Group Digital Strategy to enable wider improvements across the Group in quality, efficiency and business effectiveness. A natural collaborator, you will support our teams to:

• Do the basics brilliantly
• Do things once for both
• Do the hard work to make things simple
• Be the best you can be

Main duties of the job

Working in a matrix management arrangement, the post holder will form an integral part of the Hospital Executive team, being responsible to the Hospital Chief Executive for execution of the technology and information strategy and day to day operational matters and professionally accountable to the Group Chief Digital Information Officer for Group Digital strategic goals.

The post holder will have responsibility for all of the Trust's Digital portfolio on a day to day basis and work to our principles of:

• Do the Basics Brilliantly - continually improving our core platforms and infrastructure
• Do things once for both - take every opportunity to provide solutions, processes, suggestions, learning etc that is done once for both hospitals.
• Do the hard work to make things simple - getting better at thinking about things from the user's point of view.
• Be the best you that you can be - grow our work in respecting each other, being transparent about what we do, being civil to each other and respecting diversity in all forms. Great people build high performing teams

The post holder will be required to provide advice on and manage complex technology issues across the entire Trust and contribute to the overall delivery of the Group Digital Strategy.

All members of the Digital Leadership team will strive towards "Applying the culture, processes, business models & technologies of the internet era to respond to people's raised expectations" [Tom Loosemore's definition of Digital].

About us

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

Compassion

Respect

Integrity

Courageous

Accountable

Employer details

Employer name

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kettering General Hospital

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kettering General Hospital

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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