Director of Digital

Job summary

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Agenda for Change Band 9

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional digital leader to help shape the future of one of the NHS's most ambitious digital transformation programmes.

Serving more than 500,000 people across one of England's largest and most geographically diverse health systems, NCIC has already established itself as a national leader through the successful implementation of the first phase of its Electronic Patient Record (EPR), recognised by NHS England as an exemplar programme. Now we're looking for a Director of Digital to build on that success.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Digital, Estates & Facilities, you'll provide strategic leadership across digital services, cyber security, infrastructure, information systems and digital transformation. Working closely with executive, clinical and operational colleagues, you'll ensure digital enables better patient care, improves staff experience and supports our long-term strategic ambitions.

Main duties of the job

This is a role with genuine breadth and influence. You'll lead major transformation programmes, oversee the continued rollout of our EPR, drive innovation through artificial intelligence and automation, strengthen digital resilience and play a leading role across the wider Integrated Care System.

We're looking for an experienced senior digital leader with a proven track record of delivering complex transformation within large organisations. You'll bring strategic vision, operational credibility and the ability to build strong relationships across clinical, operational and system partners. Experience leading large-scale digital programmes, developing digital strategy and delivering measurable benefits is essential. Experience of EPR implementation within healthcare would be advantageous.

At NCIC, digital is central to our future. This is an opportunity to join an ambitious organisation that has made significant progress and is committed to delivering safe, high-quality care every time through innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.

If you want to lead meaningful transformation that improves outcomes for patients and communities while helping shape the future of integrated healthcare, we'd love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion about the role and how to apply please review the candidate pack and contact our recruitment partners at Hunter Healthcare via Finn McNulty, Associate Partner

Email: fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00 Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00 Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Excellent opportunities for development*

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Important Information

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MSc level of professional qualification, commensurate with the nature of the role and any mandated requirements associated with it, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Recognised qualification in leadership and management, at post graduate level, or equivalent leadership experience.

Experience

Essential

• Significant knowledge of current NHS national and regional health policy in relation to the digital agenda.
• Track record of delivering digital transformation with demonstrable outputs and outcomes.
• Demonstrate significant digital service knowledge and extensive experience acquired through training and experience at a senior level.
• Commercial experience with different IT delivery models (e.g., avoiding big upfront investments, making suppliers co-invest, pay-for-use models, not owning technical infrastructure, i.e. cloud, etc.)
• Demonstrable success in managing highly-complex, large technology/software programmes with budgets of >£10m.
• Experience of developing and implementing digital strategy within a large organisation.
• Demonstrable experience of implementing and delivering benefits realisation.
• Excellent technology knowledge of systems and applications in healthcare.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence and automation.
• Detailed knowledge of programme methodologies.
• Specialist knowledge of digital risks and issues within large complex organisations.
• Comfortable and adept in leading with humility, recognising that this is an essential characteristic for every leader.
• Exceptional communication skills which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and excellent partnership working.
• Well-developed critical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills - the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action.
• Analytical rigour and numerical competence.
• Sophisticated influencing and negotiating skills.
• Ability to promote compassionate and inclusive working practices and cultures that encourage and enable individuals and teams to thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.
• Ability to work at pace and consistently deliver in a demanding and high-profile role.
• Demonstrable commitment to collaborative leadership practices, with a track record of improvements in equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Desirable

• Proven practical experience with implementation of EPR/EHR solutions.

other requirments

Essential

• Committed to creating an environment of trust, mutual respect, and shared aspiration in which everyone can contribute fully and openly to achieving collective goals.
• Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
• Values and promotes continuing professional and personal development.

Person Atributes

Essential

• Excellent personal integrity.
• Highly developed communication and listening skills.
• Significant tenacity, and resilience, with an ability to 'bounce back' quickly from setbacks.
• Comfortable and adept at living with and leading and managing through ambiguity and great levels of complexity.
• Through personal influence and credibility, able to gain and maintain the trust and confidence of others.
• Able to assess highly complex situations and issues quickly and accurately.
• Politically sensitive.
• Financially and commercially astute.
• Outcomes-driven.
• A strong desire to make a full and effective contribution as a member of a high-performing team.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cumberland Infirmary

Carlisle

CA2 7HY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.ncic.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)