Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

STRATEGIC

·      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.

·      Establish effective relationships with systems supplier's team, exploiting change expertise available from the supplier's team and other supplier's Trusts.

·      In conjunction with the CDIO and CCIO making executive decisions on behalf of the Trust’s technological requirements

·      To provide exemplar technical and professional support on a wide range of information, technology and data legislation, with a focus on Digital Governance.

·      Support delivery of the Trust strategy with special attention to cross-organisational issues and work flows.

·      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.

·      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

·      Responsible for providing appropriate professional development and guidance to the senior team and the wider teams. 

·      Lead on the integration of digital systems with business, service and financial planning

·      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

·      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

·      Direct the overall implementation of the EPR and the projects that sit within this, supported by the EPR programme manager

·      Ensure all returns to external bodies are completed and integrated with financial returns.  This includes returns to NHS England, the ICBl as well as ad hoc information to other external bodies. 

·      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.)

·      Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of a large scale technical and operational team

·      Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of the IT Infrastructure, Application and Integration, and Asset and Licensing teams

·      Monitor the performance and utilisation of Digital and Information systems across the organisation and support the introduction of remedial steps where necessary.

·      Actively contribute to the realisation of benefits from delivering different ways of working enabled by delivery of digital transformation

·      Overall accountability for the EPR and Digital transformation programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track

·      Establish and sustain systems and processes for the management of risk, change control and issue resolution processes

·      Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders

·      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

·      Work with programme and Trust colleagues to embed change and improvement methodologies that can be used throughout the Digital division to promote transformation 

·      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

·      Perform any other duties commensurate with the grade of post as delegated by the Chief Digital and Information Officer