Job Overview
The role will lead the digital transformation agenda to support the design and deliver the digital infrastructure to deliver new model of care for the New Frimley Park Hospital, and use digital tools where appropriate to enable change and maximise the benefit of technology in the new hospital.
It is an exciting time to join the Trust as it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to be involved in designing the digital infrastructure and transformation. The postholder will be involved in the build of a brand new Frimley Park Hospital, which will be state of the art in terms of its design and how patients are treated or receive care for future generations to come. Digital innovation will be a key component in terms of design and care delivery.
Main duties of the job
The role will ensure digital enables improved patient access, integration of technological solutions to help operational teams manage workload, improve staff and patient satisfaction, and improve efficiency and sustainability of the New Frimley Park Hospital.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to Hunter Healthcare our recruitment partners to see attached Candidate Pack for detailed Job Description and Key Responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters degree level in IT, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- Prince2 project management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing strategic and technical digital advice to the NHS, comparable Trust and other stakeholders
- Experience of leading complex digital change and improvement projects
- Extensive experience of managing complex transformation programmes and projects through to delivery.
- Experienced in reviewing and interpreting complex financial and analytical information to support the development of strategic plans and delivery of change programmes
- Significant experience of using programme management and improvement techniques to drive change forward, including translating strategic objectives into tangible plans for delivery and following these through to benefits realisation
Desirable criteria
- Experienced in the delivery of the digital requirements of a new acute hospital
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Must demonstrate knowledge of the current health system within, the aims and aspirations of the ICS / Acute Trust and current national health policy, including national guidance on Sustainability and Transformation plans and Ten-Year Plan
- Extensive knowledge of cybersecurity protocols and best practices
- Extensive knowledge of healthcare-specific IT systems
- Excellent change management skills with experience of managing multiple stakeholders with competing interests and priorities
- Ability to lead on complex digital systems, infrastructure selection, procurement and deployment
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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