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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The Associate Medical Director for Digital (AMDD) will work alongside our Chief Information Officer and the Chief x Information Officer (covering Nursing, Midwifery & AHP workforce) on the Trusts new Digital Transformation programme, B.Digital.
The B.Digital programme consists of a number of exciting developments such as the implementation of a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR), further adoption the Trusts Nexus Patient Record (NPR) and convergence of other systems across the Lancashire & South Cumbria ICS.
The postholder will be responsible for encouraging clinical ownership of the digital and transformation agenda across the organisation, acting as an ambassador, and influencing colleagues from all front line professions to be involved in the Trusts B.Digital programme.
Main duties of the job
* Providing strong clinical leadership of the strategic development, design, and implementation of the B.Digital programme across the organisation to support better health and care, improved patient outcomes and experience, and better value and affordability.
* Setting the vision for future ways of working, aligning future clinical processes with digital and building design considerations.
* Serving as a core member of relevant digital steering groups / boards, acting as the chair where necessary.
* Leading clinical engagement in the development of the model of care, including the challenge to transform services and future proof service delivery.
* Lead and facilitate engagement with academic partners to maximise the potential of data for research & innovation.
* Convening a wider group of clinical leaders to engage in and with digital transformation.
* Overseeing the strategic leadership of the procurement, development, deployment, optimisation, and ongoing enhancement of clinical information systems to ensure they support clinicians in the delivery of safe and effective patient care.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT and thank you for taking an interest in joining #TeamBTH and supporting the Trusts Digital transformation journey!
We have an exciting opportunity to appoint an Associate Medical Director for Digital (AMDD) to work alongside our Chief Information Officer and Chief x Information Officer (covering Nursing, Midwifery & AHP workforce) on the Trusts new Digital Transformation programme, B.Digital.
The B.Digital programme consists of a number of exciting developments such as the implementation of a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR), further adoption the Trusts Nexus Patient Record (NPR) and convergence of other systems across the Lancashire & South Cumbria ICS.
To help us achieve this we are looking for a transformational leader with exemplary clinical credibility to provide expert clinical advice and to be the key conduit to our medical workforce to ensure we have good patient and clinical input and engagement in the Trusts B.Digital programme.
The AMDD will have 4 PAs for the Digital. For any external applicants, we would welcome you in bringing your clinical practice, and we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
To help the AMDD and our Digital Transformation journey, there's also an opportunity to build a new team consisting of 5 x Divisional Digital Leads, each with 2 PAs for each clinical division.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description, person specification and job advert are all included as separate documents within this folder.
Person specification
Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
* Full registration with the General Medical Council
* Clearance by Occupational Health to carry out the full range of duties of the post.
Desirable criteria
* Postgraduate qualifications in relevant topic.
Personal Experience
Essential criteria
* Demonstrable experience of a similar role or working at an equivalent level in a relevant healthcare organisation.
* Outstanding reputation as a clinician and clinical leader, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the area of clinical information.
* Experience in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and direction and translation into successful outcomes.
* Experience of managing organisation wide agendas.
* Experience of delivering transformation projects/programmes.
* Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of leading a large complex organisation through significant change.
* Experience of cross profession collaborative working
* Experience leading clinical digital transformational change.
* Experience working across organisational boundaries to deliver transformational change.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* In-depth understanding of the complexity in providing secondary healthcare.
* Knowledge of the UK health care sector.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Successful team leadership/motivation of others.
* Success as a team player and the ability to work with staff at all levels.
* Innovation and vision, including an ability to build organisation capabilities, establishing a clear strategic vision and direction, and translating this into successful outcomes.
* A proven ability to plan strategically.
* Good business acumen.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Intellectual flexibility, including the ability to understand both operational detail and wider longer strategic visions, and to articulate these to others; and the ability to cope with ambiguity and perform through uncertainty where necessary.
* Political awareness, with the ability to understand the wider interest groups and stakeholders within the Trust, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests.
* Drive for improvement with the proven ability to set and meet ambitious targets and monitor against targets.
* Computer literacy.
Desirable criteria
* Strong influencing skills with the ability to share development across the health and social care system.
Attributes
Essential criteria
* The energy, stamina and drive commensurate with working at a senior level in a large NHS Trust, evidenced by health record and attitude to work.
* Ability to work flexibly and to travel across hospital sites associated with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on a regular basis, and regionally and nationally when required.
* Satisfactory health screening and CRB checks.
* Willingness to undertake training required for the job.
* Understand and maintain confidentiality.
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If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £22.00, Standard DBS check £22.00 and Enhanced DBS check £42.00.
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Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.
Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.
Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
* AMD Digital JD (PDF, 528.6KB)
* AMD Digital Final version (PDF, 152.4KB)
* AMD Digital Job Advert (PDF, 648.3KB)
* Guidance on Pre-Employment Checks (PDF, 64.2KB)
* Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 43.2KB)
* Application Guide Booklet (PDF, 511.1KB)
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