Senior Digital Transformation Lead

St Marys Hospital; England; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Digital Transformation Lead to shape and deliver digital initiatives across the North West London Acute Provider Group. You will lead clinical systems and EPR-enabled change, ensuring safe, high-quality implementations and improved adoption for patients and staff.

You will collaborate with executive leaders, clinicians, operational teams and suppliers to redesign care pathways, embed continuous improvement and drive sustainable benefits

Qualifications

• Masters-level qualification in digital or allied field is essential.
• Postgraduate qualification or evidence of recent professional development is required.
• Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD) is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-organisation digital transformation programmes and act as a key business partner for APG trusts.
• Oversee design, implementation and optimisation of clinical systems and EPR-enabled change to deliver measurable benefits.
• Chair and facilitate stakeholder groups and provide clear assurance and progress reports to governance forums.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic planning

transformation leadership

Education

Masters level in digital or allied field

Postgraduate qualification

Tools

Cerner Millennium

Job description

Job overview

The senior digital transformation lead is a senior leadership role to shape, deliver and optimise digital transformation across the North West London Acute Provider Group. You will lead a portfolio of clinical systems and EPR enabled change, ensuring programmes deliver measurable benefits, safe and high-quality implementation, improved adoption and better experiences for patients and staff.

Working across four NHS trusts, you will collaborate with executive leaders, senior clinicians, operational teams, digital specialists and suppliers to redesign care pathways, unwarranted variation and embed continuous improvement, . You will also lead and develop transformation and training teams, influence strategic decision-making and help turn the APG digital strategy into practical sustainable improvement across the wider EPR ecosystem

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will lead specific multi-organisation digital transformation programmes and act as a key business partner for an APG trust.
• They will oversee the design, implementation and optimisation of clinical systems and EPR-enabled change, translating clinical and operational priorities into deliverable plans, redesigned pathways and measurable benefits.
• Key duties include chairing and facilitating stakeholder groups; engaging executives, senior clinicians, operational leaders, digital teams and suppliers; and providing clear assurance and progress reports to governance forums.
• The role will ensure changes meet end user requirements to improve usability, productivity and efficiency whilst holding improved patient experience at the heart of everything they do. Changes must comply with clinical safety, information governance, cyber security, programme governance and national digital standards.
• The post holder will analyse the impact of new processes, support clinical safety cases and hazard logs, develop policies and standard operating procedures, and use data and analytics to target adoption and improvement.
• They will lead, motivate and develop transformation and training staff, manage performance and resources, support business cases and benefits realisation, and promote a collaborative culture of innovation and continuous improvement across all four trusts.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

• Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
• Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in digital or allied field.
• Post graduate qualification in a related subject or evidence of recent professional development.
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Formal project management
• Qualification – Prince II
• Digital qualification(s) appropriate to Technology Innovation role

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience of undertaking change management within the NHS
• Good understanding of the NHS and the national Information for Health Strategy and involvement in the production of local (organisation) or sector wide strategies
• Knowledge of health information systems, electronic patient records in particular Cerner Millennium
• Expert knowledge of Transformation / Change Management theory and techniques
• Experience of staff management
• Project Management and delivering projects

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on

We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).

Vacancy Closing Date

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date.