Diagnostic Transformation Lead (Digital)
Job summary
This role will have the responsibility for digital transformation of Diagnostic Services within ACW for Whittington Health, satellite sites, and linking with primary care and wider NCL Diagnostic initiatives. This will include interfaces and integration.
The post holder will ensure system use is optimised to deliver value or money and reduce unnecessary spend and improve safety.
The post holder will act autonomously to communicate with users of all supported systems and their suppliers to understand, troubleshoot and rectify problems.
The post holder will be an expert in the digital diagnostic system workflow and systems integration; they will be a subject matter expert, an applications specialist and have experience of managing a team of experts. They will play a key role in Trust strategic and wider NCL transformational projects which involve digital diagnostic systems, providing technical guidance and hands on support to suppliers and other project teams.
Additionally, the post holder will sit in a key interface position between clinical services, diagnostic services, local IMT services, primary care and NCL partners and on behalf of the organisation they will lead on Trust wide system and delivery of results and report sharing across the organisation and with external organisations.
The post holder will responsible for leading the delivery of digital transformation in line with NHS, ICB and key Trust strategies/initiatives.
Main duties of the job
Responsibility for the safe and effective operation of digital diagnostic services hosted by Whittington Health NHS Trust - ensuring value or money
Ensuring effective governance compliance and procedures are in place for systems and projects
Ensuring rapid and effective troubleshooting and procedures in place
Service planning, transformation, efficiency and productivity and development
Data collection and analysis to support centrally led initiatives (i.e. Right test Right time) and the NCL Digital Diagnostic Strategy drive diagnostic services forward
Ensuring Digital Diagnostic systems contribute to effective patient management across the trust and satellite sites and are configured in a way that they support the delivery of cost improvement
Effective project management
Responsible for overseeing the training of clinical and non-clinical staff who use relevant systems
Encourage the highest professional and technical skills in staff through personal example and constructive criticism.
To be responsible to the development of Policies that are directly related to relevant digital systems
To provide highly specialist technical services and advice to clinical staff.
Support training of new staff and existing staff in process and clinical risk inherent in the pathway to reduce clinical risk and data quality issues
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see further details as detailed in Full Job Description and Personal Specification attached to this job advert
Person Specification
Education
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
- Management qualification (or equivalent management experience)
- PRINCE2 in project management
Skills
- Teaching and training skills with the ability to adapt training and teaching styles in response to the needs of the trainee
- Team player with an enthusiasm for information technology with the ability to engage staff at all levels.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Conflict resolution and mediation skills
- Experience of supervising and managing staff
- Ability to provide and received highly specialist information relating to clinical IT systems
- Ability to assess and analyse complex incidents to identify root cause and apply remedial actions
- Requirement to be able to manage own workload and diary
- Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- Negotiation skills
- Development of policies / procedures / guidelines
- Proven mentor experience - with positive outcomes.
Knowledge
- Experience of working in the NHS at a senior level
- Current understanding of the challenges facing the NHS and Health Service management.
- Understanding of improvement methodology and change management
- Knowledge of the Quality and Assurance Framework
- Advanced experience in clinical systems management
- Experience in strategic management of Diagnostic clinical systems
- Experience in delivering change and project management
- Knowledge of IT infrastructure
- In depth knowledge of Clinical Governance and its application within clinical systems
- Ability to produce concise relevant reports
- Expert knowledge of HL7 messaging.
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
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Whittington Hospital
London
N19 5NF
Employer's website
https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/