Job overview
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY SWANSEA BAY UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD.
Digital Services are integral to the Health Board’s clinical services plan, and play a key role in supporting thousands of staff to provide effective services. We help clinical staff manage and monitor patients throughout their care through the provision of digital applications, infrastructure, intelligence and processes.
Reporting to the Head of Digital Planning, the post holder will work alongside clinical and operational colleagues and other Digital Programme Managers to ensure successful programme delivery to ensure digital processes and solutions are embedded to enable full benefits realisation. The post holder will also be required to work with Digital Health and Care Wales and other NHS Wales/partner organisations.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and its use to improve quality of care and patient safety. You will be highly organised, enthusiastic, motivated and able to work closely with staff at all levels to ensure project delivery.
Main duties of the job
Lead and manage major initiatives or programmes involving a portfolio of projects undertaken by the Digital Services Directorate, ensuring that they are coherent and balanced with a strong focus on delivery and implementation of products and services.
This will include:
1. Projects identified as part of the Health Board’s Digital Services annual objectives, which will involve planning and implementing a broad range of activities and new ways of working.
2. Collaboration on Nationally led projects with Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) and other Health Boards.
3. Support of service modernisation service improvements through the
implementation of technology
4. Take responsibility for the production of plans, documentation, support, guidance and training for project teams and staff within and across sites throughout the project lifecycle.
5. Lead on a range of operational/strategic plans for performance improvement in new areas across sites, including diagnostic work in order to develop solutions and imparting sometimes unwelcome news to generate need for change.
6. Manage Project Teams and work with other project managers in the production of plans, documentation and guidance throughout the project lifecycle, using agreed Performance Improvement Team/Step Change project documentation.
7. Act as a budget holder for highly complex, highly sensitive projects.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
8. Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent experience
9. Evidence of continued professional development
10. Project and/or Programme management office qualification, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
11. Experience of management and managing successful projects at a senior level
12. Effective partnership working in the public sector
13. Significant experience of successfully delivering change projects in complex and challenging programme environments.
14. Experience of effective stakeholder working with external bodies
Desirable criteria
15. Experience of working within the NHS
Aptitude and abilities
Essential criteria
16. Can demonstrate SBU values
17. Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills / People Management skills
18. Track record of complex problem solving in a project management environment
19. Competent in the use of desktop applications
Desirable criteria
20. Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
21. Advanced IT skills in a range of desktop applications e.g., Excel, Power BI
Other
Desirable criteria
22. Travel around Wales, and possibly further afield on a regular basis
23. Able to work hours flexibly
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable