Digital & TEC Programme Leader (Hybrid, High Impact)

Sandwell Local Area Partnership; United Kingdom; Hybride; GBP 62 000 - 66 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Sandwell Council is recruiting a Digital & TEC Programme Manager to lead strategic TEC development across Sandwell. Based from Oldbury, the role combines in-office and home working within a hybrid pattern, 37 hours per week, on a permanent basis.

You will steer the TEC portfolio, aligning with national agendas and local priorities, and provide expert guidance on digital care technologies, partnerships, governance and performance.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience within Technology Enabled Care, digital transformation, Adult Social Care, health or a closely related environment.
• Experience of leading complex programmes or service transformation from design through implementation, embedding and evaluation.
• Experience of managing operational services, including people, budgets, contracts, risks, performance and quality.
• Strong understanding of how technology can support prevention, independence, reablement, hospital discharge and community-based care.
• Knowledge of proactive, preventative and reactive TEC models, digital inclusion and the safe use of digital care technologies.
• Strong partnership-working skills and experience of influencing senior stakeholders across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of co-production and engagement with people who draw on services, carers and frontline staff.
• Confidence in using data, evidence, evaluation and user insight to improve outcomes and demonstrate value for money.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of reports and business cases for senior audiences; and
• A commitment to equality, safeguarding, accountability and Sandwell's One Team values and behaviours.
• Knowledge of local government finance, commissioning, interoperability, digital care records, sensor technologies or AI-enabled monitoring would be valuable.
• You should be able to travel across Sandwell and the wider West Midlands when required.

Responsabilités

• Lead the strategic development and delivery of Technology Enabled Care across Sandwell Place.
• Develop and implement Sandwell's TEC action plan, ensuring priorities become coordinated, measurable and sustainable delivery.
• Provide professional leadership and expert advice on TEC, digital care technologies and innovation.
• Oversee end-to-end TEC pathways, digital equipment solutions and proactive monitoring models.
• Manage service performance, quality assurance, safeguarding, governance, risk and continuous improvement.
• Lead and support TEC operational staff, digital care coordinators and project officers, ensuring supervision and workforce development.
• Champion co-production and digital inclusion so services are accessible, personalised, practical and trusted.
• Work with Council services, the NHS, primary and community care, housing, VCSE organisations, providers and suppliers to strengthen integrated pathways.
• Position TEC within prevention, early intervention, reablement, discharge to assess and community support.
• Lead service redesign and organisational readiness for digital change, including workforce capability, new workflows and modern TEC platforms.
• Use performance information, evidence, evaluation and user experience to improve delivery and demonstrate impact.
• Prepare reports, business cases, Cabinet briefings, dashboards and assurance updates for senior boards and partnership forums.
• Manage TEC budgets, forecasting, procurement, contracts and funding opportunities, ensuring value for money and sustainability; and
• Represent Sandwell at local, regional and national forums, identifying emerging opportunities and risks in digital care technology.

Connaissances

Leadership

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Digital transformation

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Strategic thinking

Governance

Description du poste

Sandwell Council is recruiting a Digital & TEC Programme Manager to lead strategic TEC development across Sandwell. Based from Oldbury, the role combines in-office and home working within a hybrid pattern, 37 hours per week, on a permanent basis.

You will steer the TEC portfolio, aligning with national agendas and local priorities, and provide expert guidance on digital care technologies, partnerships, governance and performance.