Digital Business Manager

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

The closing date is 10 November 2024

Job summary

There has never been a better time to join Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals as we transform care by pushing the boundaries of digital innovation at every opportunity.

We are looking for a values based leader with a transformative leadership style. You'll bring energy, enthusiasm and a track record of excellent engagement to enable us to provide a brilliant digital service while being an excellent place for our digital team to work.

The successful candidate will be responsible for business planning, digital strategy planning, customer engagement, financial planning and will help support continual service improvements across the digital directorate.

Main duties of the job

We are look for a proactive and strategic Digital Business Manager to deliver high-quality, efficient digital services and help to drive forward our ambitious transformation plans.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate on the development and delivery of our Digital strategy.
  • Lead team development, focusing on objectives, resourcing, and training to enhance performance.
  • Stay ahead of strategic developments in DDaT, advising senior leadership on opportunities and impacts on our business strategy.
  • Monitor progress against strategic goals and refresh the annual DDaT Business Plan.
  • Prepare change proposals, including estimates and business cases, while understanding key cost drivers.
  • If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive our digital transformation forward, we'd love to hear from you!

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.

Date posted

25 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year Pro Rata Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

272-6697056

Job locations

Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Armthorpe Road

Doncaster

DN2 5LT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.

Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.

Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Substantial senior management experience
  • Experience of managing performance targets
  • Experience of managing a range of services within an acute healthcare setting
  • Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience of successful business planning and service development

Desirable

  • Proven track record of successful and sustained management in an NHS Foundation Trust or similar organisation
  • Involvement in NHS service development and reconfiguration
  • Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers. (Performance Management, operating Framework, capacity planning, payment by results, independent sector development and Foundation Trust issues)
  • Knowledge of strategic and business planning

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Education to degree level or equivalent qualification and or experience

Desirable

  • Masters level degree in a management related discipline

Personal Attributes & Skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
  • Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
  • Sets clear objectives and helps people achieve them through coaching, feedback and on-going support
  • Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial teams in the delivery of performance targets, service delivery and change programmes
  • Able to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create conditions for successful partnership working

Desirable

  • Delivers clear presentations to diverse audiences
  • Drafts accurate and complex reports that are clear accurate and easily understandable
Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Substantial senior management experience
  • Experience of managing performance targets
  • Experience of managing a range of services within an acute healthcare setting
  • Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience of successful business planning and service development

Desirable

  • Proven track record of successful and sustained management in an NHS Foundation Trust or similar organisation
  • Involvement in NHS service development and reconfiguration
  • Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers. (Performance Management, operating Framework, capacity planning, payment by results, independent sector development and Foundation Trust issues)
  • Knowledge of strategic and business planning

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Education to degree level or equivalent qualification and or experience

Desirable

  • Masters level degree in a management related discipline

Personal Attributes & Skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
  • Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
  • Sets clear objectives and helps people achieve them through coaching, feedback and on-going support
  • Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial teams in the delivery of performance targets, service delivery and change programmes
  • Able to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create conditions for successful partnership working

Desirable

  • Delivers clear presentations to diverse audiences
  • Drafts accurate and complex reports that are clear accurate and easily understandable

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

Address

Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Armthorpe Road

Doncaster

DN2 5LT


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

Address

Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Armthorpe Road

Doncaster

DN2 5LT


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Chief Information Officer

Dan Howard

dan.howard3@nhs.net

07926069312

Date posted

25 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year Pro Rata Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

272-6697056

Job locations

Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Armthorpe Road

Doncaster

DN2 5LT


Supporting documents

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