Job summary
The Imaging Digital Lead will work as part of a dynamic team
with a focus on the delivery of digital transformation across the SSF Imaging
Network spanning three ICSs.
The Imaging Network spans three Integrated Care Systems
(Sussex Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System; Surrey Heartlands
Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care System; and Frimley Health and Care
Integrated Care System) and seven Acute NHS Trusts:
University Hospitals Sussex NHSFT (UHS)
East Sussex Healthcare NHST (ESHT)
Queen Victoria Hospital NHSFT (QVH)
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH)
Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHSFT (ASPH)
Frimley Health NHSFT (FHFT)
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust (RSHT)
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have extensive experience in digital
project management, proven track record of working collaboratively with a wide
range of stakeholders, and ideally knowledge of imaging systems. Experience of
diagnostic digital deployment is advantageous.
The post holder should possess an in-depth understanding of
the requirements to deliver successful change in digital health and care. They
will be responsible for building effective working relationships with
clinicians, executives, senior managers, and other stakeholders to influence
and drive change, to ensure that the anticipated benefits of the digital
solutions are fully realised.
In addition, the post holder will act as a key stakeholder
for the developing imaging network. This will involve attendance at key
stakeholder meetings and working alongside multiple providers to identify
potential opportunities and solutions which will improve population outcomes,
reduce health inequalities, improve patient care and provider productivity.
This role is a fixed term tenure/secondment for one
year.
Applicants are not required to be based within Sussex as this position also covers Surrey, Sussex and Frimley.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB recognises the positive value
of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination and welcomes applications from people of diverse backgrounds and identities. We
particularly welcome applications from disabled and ethnically diverse candidates as these staff groups are currently
under-represented throughout our organisation currently. We have also made a positive commitment to employing people from the Armed Forces Community,
We are also committed to enabling team members
to work in an agile, more flexible way, recognising that this will lead to more
effective and efficient ways of working. We will empower our people to work
where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to optimise
performance and delivery of results. Smarter working is not just related to
working from different locations or at different times. It is about gaining the
benefit of utilising technology to change work practices and to work
differently which should increase the effectiveness of the service and deliver
benefits to ICB business.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero
Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged and
supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Working
for us - Sussex Health and Care (ics.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Surrey, Sussex,
and Frimley Imaging Network
In 2021, NHSE/I
mandated the setting up of Imaging Networks to provide diagnostic imaging at
scale across wider geographic footprints than individual organisations. This is
to manage a widening workforce deficit and provide a better patient experience.
Our ambition is to
build, through collaborative working, an outstanding imaging experience for
patients wherever they are in the Network geography.
To do this we will:
develop a
collaborative infrastructure that provides a digital technology platform to
enable real time image sharing for the Network to access and improve the health
and care for our population. It is a means of pooling resources to develop an
imaging workforce strategy that will enable shared reporting worklists to
improve the outcomes of the diagnostic services model of care
build a networked
model of delivery that removes geographical, cultural, workforce, digital and
commercial barriers to succeed
The Digital Lead will work
as part of a dynamic team with a focus on the delivery of digital
transformation across the SSF Imaging Network spanning three ICSs.
The post holder should
possess an in-depth understanding of the requirements to deliver successful
change in digital health and care. They will be responsible for building
effective working relationships with clinicians, executives, senior managers,
and other stakeholders to influence and drive change, to ensure that the
anticipated benefits of the digital solutions are fully realised.
In addition, the post
holder will act as a key stakeholder for the developing imaging network. This
will involve attendance at key stakeholder meetings and working alongside
multiple providers to identify potential opportunities and solutions which will
improve population outcomes, reduce health inequalities, improve patient care
and provider productivity.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Surrey, Sussex,
and Frimley Imaging Network
In 2021, NHSE/I
mandated the setting up of Imaging Networks to provide diagnostic imaging at
scale across wider geographic footprints than individual organisations. This is
to manage a widening workforce deficit and provide a better patient experience.
Our ambition is to
build, through collaborative working, an outstanding imaging experience for
patients wherever they are in the Network geography.
To do this we will:
develop a
collaborative infrastructure that provides a digital technology platform to
enable real time image sharing for the Network to access and improve the health
and care for our population. It is a means of pooling resources to develop an
imaging workforce strategy that will enable shared reporting worklists to
improve the outcomes of the diagnostic services model of care
build a networked
model of delivery that removes geographical, cultural, workforce, digital and
commercial barriers to succeed
The Digital Lead will work
as part of a dynamic team with a focus on the delivery of digital
transformation across the SSF Imaging Network spanning three ICSs.
The post holder should
possess an in-depth understanding of the requirements to deliver successful
change in digital health and care. They will be responsible for building
effective working relationships with clinicians, executives, senior managers,
and other stakeholders to influence and drive change, to ensure that the
anticipated benefits of the digital solutions are fully realised.
In addition, the post
holder will act as a key stakeholder for the developing imaging network. This
will involve attendance at key stakeholder meetings and working alongside
multiple providers to identify potential opportunities and solutions which will
improve population outcomes, reduce health inequalities, improve patient care
and provider productivity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of overseeing a digital workstream
- Demonstrable understanding of health diagnostics services and associated digital technologies
Desirable
- Proven experience of preparing and presenting at board or equivalent senior executive level
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable understanding of health diagnostics services and associated digital technologies
- Highly specialist knowledge and understanding of project and programme management
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications for the Imaging Network.
- Must have an understanding of the relationships between the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England, Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Care Boards and individual provider organisations.
Communication skills
Essential
- Provide, receive and synthesize highly complex information at pace; negotiate with stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present information to large and influential stakeholders.
- Persuade board and senior managers of the options, implications, and findings emerging from detailed analyses of complex information across multiple stakeholders.
- Negotiate on difficult and complex and detailed issues.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Plans and organises a range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect rapidly changing circumstances.
- Inputs and leads strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
- Works with Stakeholders to develop programme plans for the SHCP work streams.
Analytical Skills
Essential
- Skilled analytically & able to work in excel including spreadsheet and pivot table preparation.
- Numerate and able to problem solve across activity and financial fields
- Able to teach/train junior members of staff in the skills of excel, analysing data and provision of performance information
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
Desirable
- Ability to navigate and deliver in a context of ambiguity and rapid change
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of overseeing a digital workstream
- Demonstrable understanding of health diagnostics services and associated digital technologies
Desirable
- Proven experience of preparing and presenting at board or equivalent senior executive level
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable understanding of health diagnostics services and associated digital technologies
- Highly specialist knowledge and understanding of project and programme management
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications for the Imaging Network.
- Must have an understanding of the relationships between the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England, Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Care Boards and individual provider organisations.
Communication skills
Essential
- Provide, receive and synthesize highly complex information at pace; negotiate with stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present information to large and influential stakeholders.
- Persuade board and senior managers of the options, implications, and findings emerging from detailed analyses of complex information across multiple stakeholders.
- Negotiate on difficult and complex and detailed issues.
Planning Skills
Essential
- Plans and organises a range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect rapidly changing circumstances.
- Inputs and leads strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
- Works with Stakeholders to develop programme plans for the SHCP work streams.
Analytical Skills
Essential
- Skilled analytically & able to work in excel including spreadsheet and pivot table preparation.
- Numerate and able to problem solve across activity and financial fields
- Able to teach/train junior members of staff in the skills of excel, analysing data and provision of performance information
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
Desirable
- Ability to navigate and deliver in a context of ambiguity and rapid change
