Associate Director of Development

Job description

Job responsibilities

Oversee team development across the department, with a particular focus on ensuring that members of DDaT are skilled in interpreting and convert vague ideas and desires from clinical area teams into tightly defined and actionable digital changes.Improve the Trusts policies and approach to digital QA and testing, better understanding client needs, user behaviour and intended patient outcomes, to deliver a more rigorous testing and QA service resulting in more effective and reliable implementation of digital solutions.Ensure that DDaT teams balance the needs of the Trust with the opportunities presented by suppliers, with a focus on being responsive to user and care group needs.Overall responsibility for ensuring effective integration of healthcare data across Trust systems, and the wider health economy, with interface priorities understood and aligned to deliver Trust strategies.Overall responsibility to ensure that DDaT Development minimises understands and is responsive to future IT demands of the Trust.Overall responsibility for DDaT Development teams to define and execute management processes for digital development, to control and deliver quality improved IT Services reliably, efficiently and effectively.

Further details in the job description.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications & Training

• Masters degree in a relevant discipline with significant experience in a senior managerial and leadership role.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner or similar project management qualification, with experience of leading large complex projects.

• Managing Successful Programmes or similar programme management qualification

Experience

• Successful track record of successful delivery of major NHS digital healthcare projects.
• Managing highly complex competing priorities and delivering on time with restricted resources
• Effective communication (verbal and written) at Board level and in the wider Health economy to influence & inform.

• Senior digital role in a healthcare setting

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Comprehensive understanding of NHS strategic objectives and drivers.
• Comprehensive understanding of the NHS structure, organisations & management
• In depth knowledge of healthcare workflows & underlying business requirements across all components of an acute NHS Trust and wider health sectors

• Knowledge of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care System or similar

Other

• Demonstrates the Trust values
• Advanced interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify & overcome resistance to change.
• Highly collaborative with strong & inspirational senior leadership capability

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Hospital

Craven road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Employer's website

https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/