Job summary
See JD for details.
LUHFT is looking for a highly experienced Digital Programme Director to manage the Digital transformation programmes to achieve the best systems and solutions for our patients, clinicians and operational teams.
This is a particularly exciting and challenging time as we embark on a Trust wide procurement of a new EPR. Working closely with colleagues in the Trust and across Cheshire and Merseyside, national teams and industry experts.
The post holder will be experienced delivering a portfolio of programmes end to end from procurement to optimisation. Have excellent communication and presentation skills to be able to converse with staff at all levels including the national teams, Executive team and Site leadership.
The post holder will be an experience strategist able to interpret the needs of the services into appropriate approaches, plans and supporting documentation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for leading the Trusts Digital Programme Function; comprising of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme and the wider Digital Transformation programme delivering strategic digital transformation projects within IT (Technical), Clinical and the Trust Improvement Portfolio digital schemes.
The post holder will lead the team in delivering an EPR that is fit for purpose across LUHFT's clinical and operation services, together with multiple digital programmes in the portfolio. The EPR is a large-scale programme of work over the next five years, working closely with our system partners to deliver the best patient care and clinical experience.
The post holder will be required to direct and lead the areas of responsibility and support the Chief Digital Information Officer as required
The post holder will be responsible for the strategic direction and provision of defined services. The post holder will also play a leading role in the strategic development of services across the organisation through developments such as the EPR programme, new systems to deliver the Trust quality and improvement programmes and the cost improvement programme.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
See the JD for details.
The post holder will be responsible for the management of the
The Liverpool Care Record (EPR) Programme team and workstreams
Programme Management Office delivering the portfolio of digital solutions.
The Digital Faculty that includes IT training and digital development.
Ensure appropriate plans and reporting is in place for all projects and programmes and that proper governance is followed at all times.
Prepare and present progress reports to senior groups internally and externally.
Ensure business cases are detailed and fit for purpose and are managed through appropriate internal governance processes and external processes including responding to key lines of enquiry and approval with the ICB, Regional and national governance.
Ensure that robust tender documentation is in place for all relevant programmes
Be responsible for programme budget and adhere to standards of budget management, maintaining integrity and transparency of transactions
Job description
Job responsibilities
See the JD for details.
The post holder will be responsible for the management of the
The Liverpool Care Record (EPR) Programme team and workstreams
Programme Management Office delivering the portfolio of digital solutions.
The Digital Faculty that includes IT training and digital development.
Ensure appropriate plans and reporting is in place for all projects and programmes and that proper governance is followed at all times.
Prepare and present progress reports to senior groups internally and externally.
Ensure business cases are detailed and fit for purpose and are managed through appropriate internal governance processes and external processes including responding to key lines of enquiry and approval with the ICB, Regional and national governance.
Ensure that robust tender documentation is in place for all relevant programmes
Be responsible for programme budget and adhere to standards of budget management, maintaining integrity and transparency of transactions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent level of knowledge
- Managing successful Programmes
- PRINCE Practitioner
- Better Business Cases
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience leading / managing large, complex services and digital programmes
- Substantial experience in business case development for large scale digital programmes
- Substantial experience in managing multi-million pound programme budgets
- Substantial experience in a senior management position in the Health Service
- Substantial Line management, including senior management and specialists
- Substantial experience of delivering change management initiatives
- Successful delivery of complex multi-organisational projects
- Operational and service based environments
- Internal and external Partnership working and customer liaison
- Developing and implementing new and complex services
- Successful undertaking of Board level work
- Risk Appraisal and Risk Management
- Strategic and Business Planning, including preparation of Business cases
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Numerate
- Effective problem solving
- Sound judgement and decision making
- Ability to manage complex work and multi-task
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to provide leadership
- Willingness to accept responsibility
- Deliver outcomes within agreed timescales and resources
- Articulate and Innovative
- Commitment to deliver customer focused service
- Absolute integrity
- Resilient and Flexible
- Team player - able to lead and motivate colleagues
- Enthusiastic
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent level of knowledge
- Managing successful Programmes
- PRINCE Practitioner
- Better Business Cases
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience leading / managing large, complex services and digital programmes
- Substantial experience in business case development for large scale digital programmes
- Substantial experience in managing multi-million pound programme budgets
- Substantial experience in a senior management position in the Health Service
- Substantial Line management, including senior management and specialists
- Substantial experience of delivering change management initiatives
- Successful delivery of complex multi-organisational projects
- Operational and service based environments
- Internal and external Partnership working and customer liaison
- Developing and implementing new and complex services
- Successful undertaking of Board level work
- Risk Appraisal and Risk Management
- Strategic and Business Planning, including preparation of Business cases
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Numerate
- Effective problem solving
- Sound judgement and decision making
- Ability to manage complex work and multi-task
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to provide leadership
- Willingness to accept responsibility
- Deliver outcomes within agreed timescales and resources
- Articulate and Innovative
- Commitment to deliver customer focused service
- Absolute integrity
- Resilient and Flexible
- Team player - able to lead and motivate colleagues
- Enthusiastic
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
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).
