Digital and Transformation Lead

Job summary

Colchester Medical Practice have an exciting opportunity for an experienced project manager to join us on a part-time basis for 30 hours a week. The successful post-holder will lead us as we transform the way that we support our patients, the way our staff are able to work and the sustainability of our general practice services, through the adoption or optimisation of new technology and other initiatives.

If you are an experienced project manager or transformation lead, looking for an exciting new challenge, then we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in an NHS environment.

Main duties of the job

• Overseeing the adoption and/or optimisation of new technology to enhance patient access and experience, and to increase PCN productivity.
• Building relationships and facilitating collaboration between practices and the wider system, to support the delivery of care to patients (including shared appointments between practices to aid delivery of enhanced access).
• Leading an improvement approach to change, including building capability for quality improvement within the PCN, and system-wide approaches to problem solving.
• Reviewing and improving the PCNs digital maturity.
• Using data, and improving data quality, tounderstand demand, capacity and activity, and to drive improvements in the following areas;
  • patient experience of access.
  • operational efficiency including better matching capacity to need.
  • staff experience at work.
  • support population health management.
  • support understanding of the type and intensity of support and training needs of the PCN, and coordinate this support, including through OD programmes.
  • facilitate clinically-led innovation and the effective adoption of improvement initiatives, including integrated working at neighbourhood and/or place level to improve access to services for patients.

About us

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established PCN, delivering excellent care to over 40,000 patients across the city of Colchester. We have four sites (Shrub End Surgery, Castle Gardens Medical Practice, Wimpole Road Surgery and Parsons Heath Medical Practice) and a new health and wellbeing hub, based at our Parsons Heath site.

The practice is well established with a rating of GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. As a practice we employ over 120 colleagues to provide excellent healthcare to patients across Colchester.

We offer:

• NHS pension scheme.
• Proper Pay -Living Wage Foundation Accredited.
• Eye-care vouchers.
• Health service discounts.
• Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE.
• Enhanced maternity & paternity terms.
• Uniform provided for colleagues if required.
• Free use of Holly Health mental wellbeing app.
• Flexible working contracts available upon request.
• Excellent training opportunities and progression provided.