Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer (Band 8d)
NHS AfC: Band 8d
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At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success.
Job overview
As part of delivery against its Trust and Digital Strategies, the Trust has the opportunity to realise its digital aspiration as part of the Digital Aspirant Programme.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust to play an active and leading role in the Trust’s delivery of digital systems and services, including delivery and optimisation of the new EPR.
The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of high-quality digital services and will support the effective day to day digital services across the organisation, as well as having overall responsibility for the effective management of clinical systems throughout the Trust and EPR shared with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
Interview Date : 14th March 2025
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) is a key member of the Digital Senior Leadership Team. They deputise substantively at Executive and where necessary Board level for the Chief Digital Information Officer. Additionally, they are the professional lead for Digital Services and the subject matter expert responsible for the development and delivery of the technology underpinnings to the Digital Transformation Strategy of the organisation.
Working with the Chief Digital and Information Officer, the Chief Clinical Information Officer and the Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO), this post will take particular responsibility for providing direction and leadership on the deployment, stabilisation and optimisation of the EPR system and the successful use of other interfacing systems.
The post will also work closely with the Securing the Future team as part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP) providing support and advice on all digital elements of building Airedale’s new hospital.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
* Committed to Quality of Care
* Compassion
* Working together for patients
* Improving Lives
* Everyone Counts
* Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
STRATEGIC
1. As a member of Senior Management Team, you will help develop the Team's strategic direction, and contribute to the overall leadership, direction and management of the Team.
2. Establish effective relationships with systems supplier's team, exploiting change expertise available from the supplier's team and other supplier's Trusts.
3. In conjunction with the CDIO and CCIO making executive decisions on behalf of the Trust’s technological requirements.
4. To provide exemplar technical and professional support on a wide range of information, technology and data legislation, with a focus on Digital Governance.
5. Support delivery of the Trust strategy with special attention to cross-organisational issues and work flows.
6. Represent the Trust within the NHS and wider community and with partner organisations, and working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of patient care.
7. Support the CDIO as the Trust’s lead on digital systems planning across the wider health and social care system at Place – Act As One – and within the West Yorkshire and Harrogate and Yorkshire ICS, West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts and the North East and Yorkshire Region.
TACTICAL
1. Responsible for providing appropriate professional development and guidance to the senior team and the wider teams.
2. Lead on the integration of digital systems with business, service and financial planning.
3. To work with Executive and Deputy Directors, Service managers and clinicians to identify and deliver opportunities to implement best practice to ensure the Trust is a high performer against all known local, national and international benchmarks including but not limited to Model Hospital and Getting it Right First Time programmes.
4. Commission and conduct research into specific areas of digital informatics activity, including technical solutions, data provision, employee/citizen engagement, legislation, policy, benchmarking and good practice.
OPERATIONAL
1. Direct the overall implementation of the EPR and the projects that sit within this, supported by the EPR programme manager.
2. Ensure all returns to external bodies are completed and integrated with financial returns. This includes returns to NHS England, the ICB as well as ad hoc information to other external bodies.
3. Deputise for the Chief Digital and Information Officer, including attendance at internal and external meetings (e.g., Executive Directors Group, Board meetings, Y & H Directors Forum, etc.)
4. Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of a large scale technical and operational team.
5. Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of the IT Infrastructure, Application and Integration, and Asset and Licensing teams.
6. Monitor the performance and utilisation of Digital and Information systems across the organisation and support the introduction of remedial steps where necessary.
7. Actively contribute to the realisation of benefits from delivering different ways of working enabled by delivery of digital transformation.
8. Overall accountability for the EPR and Digital transformation programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track.
9. Establish and sustain systems and processes for the management of risk, change control and issue resolution processes.
10. Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
11. To ensure that there is a consistent approach to transformational efficiency planning and delivery so that there is a continuous pipeline of potential schemes to include service redesign and which will positively transform systems.
12. Work with programme and Trust colleagues to embed change and improvement methodologies that can be used throughout the Digital division to promote transformation.
13. Ensure systems and processes are in place to Identify programme resources required to successfully deliver change and to liaise with relevant Manager(s) to ensure availability and allocation.
14. Perform any other duties commensurate with the grade of post as delegated by the Chief Digital and Information Officer.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Master's degree or degree level plus significant in-depth experience at a senior level and training equivalent to master's level Management qualification Recent experience of working at senior management level in an acute NHS Trust. Fellow of Professional Body Evidence of further training in Business, Programme and Project Management.
* Recent experience of working at senior management level in an acute NHS Trust.
* Fellow of Professional Body.
* Evidence of further training in Business, Programme and Project Management.
Experience
* Significant experience post qualification in a senior management position dealing with strategic, financial and governance issues.
* Extensive experience of the development and operational delivery of Information Technology at a senior level.
* Experience of both Programme and Project Management including a PMO function.
* Experiencing in managing a large scale, complex Business or IT department, focused on the ongoing transformation of products and services.
* Significant experience, knowledge, theory and practical delivery of major change and improvement programmes or equivalent.
* Experience of developing complex and significant business case proposals and ensuring they are delivered.
* Knowledge of Digital health systems and their use across a large, complex organisation, including EHRs.
* Experience of ensuring organisational financial targets are delivered.
* Extensive experience of delivering major contract negotiations.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory duties as an NHS Trust.
* Expert knowledge of a range of NHS digital and informatics policy and practice and the relationship to the Trust’s business objectives.
* Highly developed awareness of social, political, financial and business issues affecting the NHS.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
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