Associate Director - Digital Services Portfolio Delivery

Job summary

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals is on a mission to provide an outstanding experience and best outcome for patients and the team. We are creating a formidable digital service to underpin our clinical services and invite you to join with us to bring digital and data to life for the citizens of Surrey and beyond.

What are we looking for?

You will be a digital leader with a post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience with experience of leading significant change and delivering tangible and sustained improvements.

You will be familiar with the development of service improvement plans, confident in advising board/senior teams on professional issues and able to engage with patients and key stakeholders. You will have outstanding communication and digital skills with knowledge of a wide range of digital solutions, including Electronic Patients Records used within large acute hospitals and good experience of the impact of using such clinical systems.

You will be confident in building rapport and credibility with digital, clinical and operational colleagues and communicate highly complex, sensitive, contentious information to groups of staff where there may be barriers and resistance to change.

Some evening and weekend work will be required to meet deadlines, so flexibility with regard to working hours is essential.

Interview Date: 3rd July 2024

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for: -

• Leading the portfolio of digital programmes and project delivery across all sites and the management of the Digital Programme Management Office (PMO).
• Defining and delivery of all digital programmes and projects making up the digital delivery portfolio in line with robust baselines of cost, time, scope and quality.
• Ensuring satisfaction across all internal and external stakeholders related to digital project delivery improving the delivery reputation of the digital team. This will include collaboration with other NHS organisations and suppliers.
• Rigorous inspection and development of all digital business cases to ensure that costs and savings are appropriate, identified and deliverable. Review of business cases for major Trust capital building schemes to ensure that digital requirements are identified, and resources are included.
• The role will also promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate data information culture across the health economy.
• The role is required to collaborate and manage relationships with colleagues in neighbouring NHS Trusts, promoting shared care records and systems integration.

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:www.asph-careers.org