Head of Clinical Applications and Data

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**

Person specification

Education & Qualification

Essential criteria

• Master's degree or equivalent experience, plus post-graduate in-depth professional knowledge in several disciplines e.g. information systems, change management, programme management, finance
• ITIL V4 'Managing Professional' or 'Strategic Leader' qualification, or equivalent qualification, or demonstrable experience
• Management training, qualifications or experience

Desirable criteria

• Relevant programme management methodology certification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of strategic leadership of digital and data services, aligning senior stakeholders in the delivery transformation
• Extensive experience of operational digital and data programme delivery
• Experience of working with external resources from suppliers as well as in-house teams to delivery coherent joined up work
• Experience in complex stakeholder management and engagement within, and across, organisations, including effective commination up to Board level
• Experience of presenting complex and sensitive information to key stakeholders and groups
• Ability and experience in developing data architectures, collecting and managing data, ensuring data quality, as well as advanced reporting and analytics. Using BI to deliver tangible and actionable insights from data

Desirable criteria

• Good working knowledge of the NHS and the work of a community Trust
• Experience of applying innovation and creative techniques, to generate and develop new solutions that can be practically applied to the benefit of the organisation
• Strategic procurement experience

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent presentation and communication skills - ability to engage with all levels of staff, and lead, as well as contribute in, meetings
• Ability to think strategically and translate this thinking into deliverable plans and programmes of work
• Up to date knowledge of digital and data capabilities and emerging technologies, and how these can be applied operationally within complex organisations
• Ability to identify underperformance and address this as appropriate, which may span in-house and external supplier teams
• Able to carry out user centred design of solutions, oversee these through delivery and into effective operational use by staff in the Trust
• Excellent IT skills including keyboard skills and a high level of proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, Adobe and other common business software products
• Expert user of MS Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 439.8KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)