Digital Transformation Programme Lead

We have recently formed the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group, bringing together the constituent organisations of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. We have agreed an ambitious Group Strategy
‘Dedicated to Excellence’ which sets out our strategic ambitions and priorities for the next five years. We have also launched our Group Digital Strategy, which sets out our ambitions over next three years to become the most digital hospital in England. Across our Digital portfolio
**we are working to the following principles**:
Putting users’ needs first
Designing for simplicity
Working in an agile way
Doing things once across the Group
Communicating and engaging throughout
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic and agile digital transformation and innovation team. They will be responsible for leading, delivering and implementing complex digital programmes as part of the Digital Transformation Programme which is in support of University Hospitals of Northamptonshire’s Digital Strategy.
The post holder will be competent with technology-enabled service re-design and service transformation. Experience of working with agile methodologies will be an advantage.
To operate as a key member of the Group Digital Transformation and Innovation senior management team which oversees the effective delivery of programmes within digital transformation and innovation within the Group.
Develop, lead and manage the delivery of programmes associated with the Group Digital Strategy, which includes a number of projects or initiatives of significant size, complexity and risk ensuring that they do not have an adverse impact on patient care and quality.
Continuous improvement and sustained delivery of high-quality services within the Group.
Responsible for reporting on programme performance including, risk escalation, management and financial control.
Responsible in developing business justifications, business cases and project artefacts in collaboration with Business Unit operational teams.
Responsible for ensuring services are continually reviewed and improve the quality, effectiveness and safety of care, actively seeking out and learning the lessons from complaints, compliments, investigations and other information and intelligence.
Ensure smooth transition from programme and project delivery into sustained business as usual.
Line management for the digital programmes team - including service, staff and budget.
Create environment for happy, motivated, highly-performing teams.
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Digital Transformation
- To lead programmes team to use tools and techniques of the internet era to understand user needs and put into place solutions that meet expectations.
- Shared responsibility for development of the disciplines of service design and user research to support product development.
- Promote consistency and clarity and coherent Group solution architecture design to support a ‘once for both’ approach.
- Support on management of prioritisation process for digital transformation deliverables across the Group
- working with stakeholders to reach consensus for the good of the Group, staff and patients.

Project assurance
- Responsible for the management of programme: milestone delivery, interdependency of deliverables, risks and issue and mitigations, change and configuration.
- Responsible in ensuring every project within programmes team has an appropriately scoped project plan with clear roles, responsibilities accountabilities, timescales for delivery and benefits realisation metrics against which delivery can be monitored.
- Proactively manage changes in programme scope, identify potential crisis and devise contingency plans in conjunction with appropriate colleagues.
- Developing and providing key operational managemen