The Digital Transformation Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the Enabling Digital Programmes within the Healthier Futures Transformation Plan are well defined and understood both within the organisation, with our wider partners and national teams. This role will manage a portfolio of different initiatives and will develop comprehensive business cases to justify digital initiatives, identifying and articulating the benefits, and creating robust change management approaches to ensure successful implementation.
The Transformation Manager will need to work closely with a diverse range of stakeholders and build strong lasting relationships for the duration of the programme. This includes healthcare professionals, IT teams, external partners, other NHP sites and the wider healthcare technology market to define the transformation strategy. This includes understanding the impact of digital technologies on hospital operations, patient care, and overall efficiency.
Additionally, the Transformation Manager will ensure the organisation is prepared for change by developing and implementing strategies to facilitate readiness and smooth adoption of new digital tools and processes.
The role also includes managing devolved elements of the programme budget, ensuring that financial resources are allocated effectively. The Programme Manager will have financial oversight responsibilities, including tracking expenditures, forecasting financial needs, and reporting on budget status to senior management.
They will be responsible for defining the investment portfolio for a number of technologies associated with the Healthier Futures Programme, and will support the Digital Programme Manager ensure that digital initiatives can be prioritised and implemented effectively over the course of the programme, and for the hospital opening. This involves evaluating potential technologies, liaising with the market, assessing technology alignment with both the programme and wider organisation’s goals, and making recommendations about resource allocation.
Day to day, the Transformation Manager will be responsible for managing subgroups within the programme, and associated deliverables within the workstream, ensuring the delivery of vital components to the Healthier Futures Programme, to ensure its success.
This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong background in digital technologies, project management, and healthcare systems, who can effectively manage relationships and interdependencies between various workstreams and departments.
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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). Our services include planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care, child health, maternity, and intermediate care across Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
Through our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, we deliver extensive services in 26 medical centres and schools in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With 500 beds and around 5,500 staff, we are one of the area’s largest employers.
Since the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust has become a key partner in Cheshire East & Cheshire West and Chester and in two provider collaboratives, aligning our strategic goals with the Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care System.
As part of the national New Hospital Programme, we’re reimagining Leighton Hospital to create a new health and care neighbourhood, transforming healthcare delivery for a Healthier Future. Learn more on our Healthier Futures website.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Bethan Langley Job title: Digital Programme Manager Email address: emma.lucas@mcht.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07387259936
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