You can become part of the Digital Team that is making positive improvements in different programmes within the Trust.

The Director of Digital Services will lead digital operational services across Oxford University Hospitals and support the development and adoption of outstanding digital health and care services for patients and families.

We want to change and enhance health and care across our area, supporting the objectives of our wider integrated care system to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare reduce disparities in outcomes, experience and access increase efficiency and value and support social and economic growth in their area.

Main duties of the job

The Director of Digital Services will deliver a step change in digital transformation, working with clinicians and staff to ensure the optimisation of our digital services across the organisation, facilitating the realisation of benefits and the integration of digital care with the Trusts quality and safety priorities. The post will support delivery of the Trusts strategy through ensuring families and our patients are at the centre of all we do, and staff have the skills and resources required to deliver services to an outstanding standard.

The post will work closely with research, development and innovation services, enhancing the digital reputation of the Trust through using innovative digital research and innovation.

The post holder will be responsible for Information Technology services within the Trust, ensuring that the best people do the best work, with high-quality delivery. To achieve our goals we need a team of competent, collaborative professionals who share the same vision and are passionate about their work.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Deliver a high quality digital and information technology service within OUH.2. Lead the development of the digital roadmap the Trust.3. Be a transformational leader one who can drive a step change in our approach to digital healthcare.4. Work with key stakeholders to embed a culture of digital quality improvement and digital first culture across the Trust.

For a full description please refer to the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant first degree or equivalent
• RelevantMastersdegreeorequivalentdemonstrable experience
• Evidence of further personal and professional development, including senior leadership development

Experience

Essential

• Proven track record of leading and managing digital services
• Substantial line management, including senior management and specialists
• Successful delivery of complex multi-organisational portfolios within operational and service based environments
• Experience of partnership working - Internal and external local and national
• Strategic and business planning, including preparation of business cases
• Experience of large budget management

Desirable

• Significant experience in a senior management position in the Health Service
• Substantial experience in developing and delivering digital strategies
• Substantial experience of delivering major transformation change initiatives in healthcare
• Proventrackrecordofdigitalleadershipinamulti organisational, health and social care environment
• Proven track record of digital quality improvement delivering clinical change in a complex environment
• Proven track record of developing and delivering innovation in a multi organisational, health and social care environment
• Exposure to Board level work

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

• Impeccable interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills
• Able to create / shape innovative strategic vision and plans for the best possible long term benefit of patients, the organisation and health and care system
• Able to make sound judgements and take difficult and challenging decisions that support strategic aims and long term vision
• Highly developed problem solving, administrative, budgetary, analytical and statistical skills
• Ability to manage complex work and multi-task
• Deliver outcomes within agreed timescales and resources
• Ability to prioritise, delegate and meet challenging deadlines
• Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Leads with compassion and integrity
• Commitment and passion for patient centred services with the ability to embed such an ethos at all levels of the organisation
• Transformationalleadershipapproach highenergyand innovative
• Team player - able to motivate people to transform care outcomes
• A confident and resilient individual
• Demonstrates professional and personal credibility

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe

Headley Way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

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