Digital Transformation Consultant

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Job overview

The aim of the Digital Transformation Consultant is to lead the planning and delivery of complex digital transformation programmes, projects, and consultancy assignments to support and enable the use of digital technologies and solutions.

This role sits within the Transformation Directorate, which has approximately 250 people working across a range of professional disciplines within the transformation and consultancy space. The post holder will be allocated a Career Development Manager to support them pastorally and to support them on their career journey and they will report into an Assignment Manager for each project they are assigned to.

• Leading and motivating project teams drawn from across the SCW footprint and from multiple external partners/stakeholders
• Ensuring effective, high quality, stakeholder management and communications in complex and politically sensitive environments
• Regular reporting of programme and project progress to senior responsible officers, programme boards and other executive level boards

• Leadership of digital change and transformation consultancy assignments to agreed time, quality and cost
• Working in partnership with senior health and care stakeholders to implement government policy, often for the first time
• Working with customers/clients to develop a digital response to their local health and care priorities
• Provide expert subject matter advice and guidance to SCW colleagues and other stakeholders in relation to programme and project management processes and procedures and digital transformation
• Assess opportunities, new methods, products or developments, formulating and agreeing proposals with stakeholders that will contribute to overall improvements in care, clinical and business processes via the use of digital tools and technologies.
• Being able to navigate and operate in a complex, ever-changing environment
• The planning, monitoring and control of programmes of work for multiple programmes and assignments using programme management methodologies e.g. MSP, relevant and scaled to the activity
• To implement national strategy and policy, the rollout of largescale, complex change at scale, at pace
• The planning, monitoring and control of projects and consultancy assignments using project management methodologies e.g. PRINCE2, Agile, APM, relevant and scaled to the activity

Working for our organisation

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.

This role can be delivered in a flexible hybrid way with any travel, site visits or meetings arranged by agreement on a very occasional basis.

Applicants should be aware that you may not be eligible for skilled worker sponsorship if you apply for this post. If you require sponsorship, please ensure you have checked your eligibility viahttps://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job or alternatively, please contact us via email on [email protected] to confirm the requirements of sponsorship can be met.

Person specification

Values & Behaviours

• Patient First – Customer Excellence
• Aspirational
• Collaborative
• Insightful
• Respectful

Education

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner

• Member of relevant professional body

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable success in the planning and delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder Programmes.
• Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Comprehensive experience of the use of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and programme management principles using Managing Successful Projects
• Ability to manage complex budgets, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes

• A thorough understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it

Skills & Capabilities

• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
• Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
• Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Has a good appreciation of what needs to be undertaken to deliver digital solutions and transformational change to people who will be using them
• Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills to relate appropriately to staff from all professional disciplines at all levels across all health and social care settings.

Office location can be flexible within the NHS SCW estate and will be agreed upon offer of contract.

NHS SCW staff that are in posts considered to be agile will not be expected to attend office space for general working but will be required on occasions to attend face to face meetings and collaborative working sessions that may require travel to their home base or other locations across the estate or customer sites.

Please feel free to contact the Recruiting Manager of this vacancy to discuss further the working arrangement.

Some of our sites have accessible parking provision which is free or paid for work purpose this not contractual entitlement.

We make every effort to contact all candidates to let them know the outcome of their application. However, if you haven't heard back from us within 2 weeks after the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful.

This is an exciting time to join NHS SCW

We are an NHS support and transformation organisation that helps health and social care organisations deliver the best possible care to people. As partners of choice to more than 200 organisations that support millions of people, our mission is to help deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, improving the health and wellbeing of communities.

We’re supporting clients whose vision and quest for innovation requires us to be flexible, adaptable and open to adventure; giving us the freedom to work in new ways, looking at things from a different angle and challenging the norm.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to attracting and retaining the best people in order to provide the best possible services to our customers. Our people enjoy challenging, rewarding roles, supporting our customers to improve their local health and care services.

We want our people to fulfil their potential so we offer a wide range of training, opportunities to gain qualifications, as well as access to coaching, mentoring schemes and employee wellbeing and support for a healthy work-life balance.

We were selected as an NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion Partner for three consecutive years 2015-2018 and are now proud to be Alumni of this programme.

If you are successful in your application, we will value your experience, your contribution and we will give you the knowledge to succeed as part of your specialist team and as part of our organisation.

Our values

Insightful: As experts in our fields, we understand the bigger picture and its complexities, we challenge convention, and we uncover opportunities.

Respectful: We treat everyone with respect and hope it will be returned. Recognising and valuing their knowledge, we involve our customers, teams and partners in decisions.

Please note NHS SCW asks successful candidates to upload their Right to Work and Identity documents for digital verification. If you are unable to provide the required documents for the digital verification or do not have access to a smartphone or tablet, this will result in the verification being done face-to-face.