Job summary
NHS Wales has formally adopted HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR v4) standard specification as a foundational standard. Adoption of FHIR aligns with NHS Wales strategic partnerships across the UK. A UK-wide collaborative project has already been established with full participation from Wales to develop a common set of FHIR profiles for use across the UK, known as the HL7 FHIR UK Core specification.
The FHIR Standards Development and Implementation Service Owner will play a key role in ensuring that FHIR standards are effectively implemented and utilized to achieve interoperability and improve healthcare data exchange at a national level.
NHS Wales is working collaboratively with the development of UK Core which will underpin the FHIR profiles used throughout England and the devolved nations.
Main duties of the job
Oversee the development of FHIR standards for NHS Wales and that these standards are effectively implemented and utilized to achieve interoperability and improve healthcare data exchange at a national level.
Ensure that the standards developed are accurately published within agreed timescales and resource constraints and that they are maintained.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define the strategic approach to implementing FHIR standards. This involves Interpreting national policy and guidance within NHS Wales and aligning FHIR standards to enable and support a Healthier Wales
Lead NHS Wales engagement with other organisations and standards groups, including healthcare providers, other NHS national organisations, government agencies, standards development organizations, and technology vendors, to ensure alignment and coordination in implementing FHIR standards.
Engage with healthcare IT vendors to promote the adoption of FHIR standards in their products and services.
Maintain a balanced view of requirements and demands and ensure a strong focus on delivery.
Ensure that FHIR standards build on international and UK national standards for FHIR, while reflecting NHS Wales Data Standards.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead the delivery of a range of Products that form a Service, in line with DHCW strategy and plans.
Attend and engage with national programme boards and other senior leadership meetings relating to the service. Lead NHS Wales engagement with other standards development organisations and work with other NHS organisations within the UK.
Develop, lead, and manage a number of simultaneous national projects of significant size, complexity and risk ensuring that they produce the required products, to a high standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
Demonstrate a good understanding and experience of working with Agile methodology and apply agile to deliver in a fast-paced, flexible and evolving environment. Demonstrate a good understanding and experience of user-centred design and iterative delivery and apply this knowledge to the development of products and services.
Identify and plan the scope and resource requirements of the service required to deliver in line with the strategic agenda.
Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, engage with them, and create a strong feedback loop to aid development and ensure quality of performance. Communicate the performance and benefits of the service.
The postholder will make use of appropriate software and develop and maintain clear changes and release management processes.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead the delivery of a range of Products that form a Service, in line with DHCW strategy and plans.
Attend and engage with national programme boards and other senior leadership meetings relating to the service. Lead NHS Wales engagement with other standards development organisations and work with other NHS organisations within the UK.
Develop, lead, and manage a number of simultaneous national projects of significant size, complexity and risk ensuring that they produce the required products, to a high standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
Demonstrate a good understanding and experience of working with Agile methodology and apply agile to deliver in a fast-paced, flexible and evolving environment. Demonstrate a good understanding and experience of user-centred design and iterative delivery and apply this knowledge to the development of products and services.
Identify and plan the scope and resource requirements of the service required to deliver in line with the strategic agenda.
Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, engage with them, and create a strong feedback loop to aid development and ensure quality of performance. Communicate the performance and benefits of the service.
The postholder will make use of appropriate software and develop and maintain clear changes and release management processes.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/ or Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.
- Extensive experience in managing mutli disciplinary teams, delivering different products
- Service or product ownership training
- Broad knowledge across the range of Interoperability Healthcare Technologies, such as HL7 (Health Level 7).
- Specialised knowledge of API and interoperability standards.
- Proven knowledge of architecture modelling techniques and architecture frameworks.
- Specialist knowledge of development techniques and development platforms / environments / languages.
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of Service Ownership and Product Management in an IT specific environment.
- Substantial experience of managing / leading teams to deliver project objectives on-time and on-budget
- Substantial knowledge and experience of managing several products to support large, complex IT services
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships, with a highly developed sense of customer awareness, and the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of specialists.
- Experience of dealing with major IT private sector providers in delivering major IT projects and solutions
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Substantial experience of delivering high quality digital products and services.
- Extensive experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to a wide range of stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Excellent presentation, negotiation and facilitation skills.
- Excellent organisational, judgement and analysis skills on extremely complicated problems.
- Able to operate effectively in a changing environment.
- Sound judgement and decision making involving highly complex facts or situations.
- Demonstrate a high degree of motivation.
- Highly developed experience in communicating technical approaches, processes and solutions to audiences of all knowledge levels.
- Extensive ability to proactively engage with and manage a broad range of stakeholders and to lead detailed technical discussions.
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities. Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required
- Specialised experience and understanding of the process of Technical Authoring.
- Extensive experience in working with a recognised interoperability standard, such as FHIR (REST - Interaction Patterns).
- SNOMED CT and dm+d
- Demonstrable experience across the range of Data Modelling tools and techniques, for example using the FHIR tooling to create Clinical informatics models.
- Detailed understanding and ability to work with different Data Formats, such as XML and JSON.
- Extensive experience in leading the design and development of interoperability solutions and managing teams through implementation
- Extensive ability to design, manage and oversee technical roadmaps, taking into account strategic implications and cross-programme impact.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/ or Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.
- Extensive experience in managing mutli disciplinary teams, delivering different products
- Service or product ownership training
- Broad knowledge across the range of Interoperability Healthcare Technologies, such as HL7 (Health Level 7).
- Specialised knowledge of API and interoperability standards.
- Proven knowledge of architecture modelling techniques and architecture frameworks.
- Specialist knowledge of development techniques and development platforms / environments / languages.
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of Service Ownership and Product Management in an IT specific environment.
- Substantial experience of managing / leading teams to deliver project objectives on-time and on-budget
- Substantial knowledge and experience of managing several products to support large, complex IT services
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships, with a highly developed sense of customer awareness, and the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of specialists.
- Experience of dealing with major IT private sector providers in delivering major IT projects and solutions
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Substantial experience of delivering high quality digital products and services.
- Extensive experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to a wide range of stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Excellent presentation, negotiation and facilitation skills.
- Excellent organisational, judgement and analysis skills on extremely complicated problems.
- Able to operate effectively in a changing environment.
- Sound judgement and decision making involving highly complex facts or situations.
- Demonstrate a high degree of motivation.
- Highly developed experience in communicating technical approaches, processes and solutions to audiences of all knowledge levels.
- Extensive ability to proactively engage with and manage a broad range of stakeholders and to lead detailed technical discussions.
- Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities. Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required
- Specialised experience and understanding of the process of Technical Authoring.
- Extensive experience in working with a recognised interoperability standard, such as FHIR (REST - Interaction Patterns).
- SNOMED CT and dm+d
- Demonstrable experience across the range of Data Modelling tools and techniques, for example using the FHIR tooling to create Clinical informatics models.
- Detailed understanding and ability to work with different Data Formats, such as XML and JSON.
- Extensive experience in leading the design and development of interoperability solutions and managing teams through implementation
- Extensive ability to design, manage and oversee technical roadmaps, taking into account strategic implications and cross-programme impact.
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).
