Group Senior Digital Business Partner Band 7

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincolnshire seeks a Group Senior Digital Business Partner (NHS AfC Band 7) to lead digital partnerships across the Integrated Care System. The role focuses on relationship management, procurement of ICT services, and strategic change to support patients and services within ULTH.

The post requires senior-level IT/ICT experience in the public sector, strong leadership, and robust knowledge of contract governance.

Qualifications

• Experience in public sector IT procurement and contract management.
• Strong leadership and partnership management skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple organisations.

Responsibilities

• Relationship Management across customers
• Business partnering and ICT services procurement
• Contract negotiation and SLA management
• Ensure organisational change drives ICT requirements

Skills

Relationship management

Public sector IT procurement

Contract management

Budget management

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Postgraduate advancement

Professional membership

Job description

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £49,387 - £56,515 £49,387-£56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/10/2026 23:59

Group Senior Digital Business Partner Band 7

NHS AfC: Band 7

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours - usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours - having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns - to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

The Senior Digital Business Partner is a senior member of staff within the Lincolnshire Integrated Care System who will play an active role in the management and delivery of digital partnering in support of the Integrated Care System business and service objectives.

The role will have responsibilities for:

• Relationship Management across customers
• Business partnering
• The procurement, development and implementation of computing and telecommunication services
• The negotiation of contracts and in certain instances the management of contract performance
• Ensuring that organisational change drives ICT requirements

This role will require operational working across Lincolnshire system partner sites.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Digital Business Partner is a senior member of staff within the Lincolnshire System who will play an active role in the management and delivery of digital partnering in support of the business and service objectives.

Working for our organisation

All staff are expected to adhere to the Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG) policies, procedures, and guidelines.
All staff are required to advocate, champion, and demonstrate the LCHG values.

LCHG requires all staff to safeguard children, young people and adults.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To contribute to the development of an efficient and effective ICT (Information, Computing and Telecommunications) architecture. At the same time contribute to the development of a culture where organisational change programmes drive IT requirements.
The development and management of partnerships designed to support the delivery of the digital transformation portfolio and local implementation strategies; support the Integrated Care System business and service objectives and support of national initiatives.
To operate all ICT partnerships according to the Prince2 methodologies and to procure new IT systems using POISE (Procurement of Information Systems Effectively) guidelines.
To estimate costs and resources and design selected allocated projects to agreed terms of reference.
To evaluate and make recommendations/decisions on technical options as appropriate.
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Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent or equivalent professional qualification
• Evidence of ongoing personal and senior level management development
• A good general standard of academic achievement
• Evidence of postgraduate advancement
• Membership of appropriate professional organisation
• Excellent partnership management skills and working knowledge
• Good public sector IT procurement skills.
• Effective leadership skills that motivate and involve a team.
• Good communication skills including evidence of dealing with senior colleagues and involving other stakeholders from within and external to the organisation.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to understand highly complex, sensitive or contentious information.

Knowledge

• Broad technical IT skills coupled with the ability to quickly understand the implications of new technologies.
• An up to date knowledge of Information for Health, the National Programme for IT and Connecting for Health and their impact on the delivery of clinical services in the NHS.
• Knowledge of the importance of benefits management for the successful delivery of IT investments
• Knowledge of POISE, OJEC or other public sector IT procurement standards.
• A good knowledge of current technologies, standards, protocols, wide area networks, broadband and best practice delivering ICT services.
• Good understanding of the issues surrounding IT systems integration including HL7 and DICOM.
• Knowledge of one or more modern programming languages

Experience

• Demonstrable track record of achievement and excellence as a project manager at a senior level with evidence of delivery of information technology to support service improvement and business change.
• Experience at a senior level in ICT (or professional equivalent) including evidence of developing and managing services in a complex multi-agency environment.
• Previous experience of the procurement of large-scale information systems and of negotiation and performance management of contracts and SLAs.
• Experience of budget management and resource allocation.
• Experience of effective team working at a senior level.
• Experience of collaborative working with other organisations, colleagues, suppliers and customers in the delivery of aims and objectives.
• Senior level experience within NHS.
• Evidence of deploying innovations and new technologies to promote efficient ways of working.
• Reorganisation and restructuring of service departments.
• Experience of the use of the Cranfield or equivalent benefits management methodology.
• Experience of supporting the development of ICT policies and procedures with whole organisational impact.
• Experience of the development of business or clinical software systems.

Special attributes/specific requirements

• Team player with a focus on achievement and corporate goals.

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

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Name Taimoor Hassan Job title Deputy Director - Digital Partnership and Planning Email address [e-mail] Additional information

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