Head of Digital Portfolio - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Job overview:

The Head of Digital Change Portfolio's primary responsibility is to oversee the management and support of all change portfolios where there is a digital dependency.

This individual's principal goals are to understand, collate and co-ordinate digital change portfolios across the NCA, reflecting our Care Organisation's and community needs.

The post holder will achieve this through a planned and co-ordinated set of programme and project management services, delivered by trained, skilled and motivated staff, either line or matrix managed as necessary.

The role will take responsibility for shaping and evolving the Portfolio Management function to drive efficient ways of working, derive value as part of project delivery and to embed a repeatable NCA wide change methodology.

Working across all areas of the NCA and closely with the Chief Delivery Officer's teams, they will be responsible for embedding digital change governance methods and approaches, leading the Digital change teams and the Portfolio Management Office.

This role requires a strong focus on people, process and outcomes and the postholder will be capable of inspiring and motivating teams to shape, lead and embed the end-to-end Digital Change governance process.

They will support the development of the Digital Portfolio strategy and vision to ensure it is incorporated across the Digital function and wider organisation, creating and maintaining delivery of the digital portfolio.

Main duties of the job:

The Head of Digital Portfolio will be accountable for ensuring:

Exceptional levels of customer (digital service user) experience and service responsiveness, with a focus on purpose and the need to maximise service user productivity and effectiveness.
Effective contribution to the delivery of the Trust's Strategy and plans, working in partnership with operational and corporate teams to achieve positive project and programme outcomes that make a contribution to the provision of health services within the Trust, across the local health economy and beyond.
The development and delivery of identified business change and transformation projects and programmes, ensuring a robust governance structure and framework is in place to support such projects and programmes and that this meets Trust board assurance and control requirements.
The establishment and embedding of a culture of rapid delivery, using both agile and waterfall methodologies.
That patient and colleague centric focus is brought to all Digital change initiatives from the outset and throughout.
Advocacy and consistently championing the Trust's Leadership Behaviours, vision and values, ensuring that these are role modelled through all advice, guidance and support provided by both self and team.

Working for our organisation:

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.

Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.

We believe in our power and potential to
make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -
care,
appreciate and
inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility.

The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction.

By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

Educated to a minimum of Master's degree level, or equivalent post graduate qualification or equivalent level of experience within Digital
PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Practitioner qualification(s)
Evidence of management development through Continuous Professional Development and/or formal management course
Post graduate or equivalent diploma

Desirable criteria: