Redevelopment Digital Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Join the ICHT Redevelopment Programme and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare by driving digital transformation in our new buildings. As Redevelopment Digital Manager, you will lead the Trust's Redevelopment Programme Digital Strategy, ensuring our vision of digitally enabled, fully integrated buildings becomes a reality.

You will collaborate with ICT, Healthcare Planning, and strategic IT partners to embed advanced digital solutions into building design, workflows, and patient pathways. Responsibilities include setting design principles, developing enterprise architecture, horizon scanning for global best practices, and managing IT services during reconfiguration. You'll advocate for service and business improvement, ensuring that technology design aligns with operational models and supports innovative ways of working.

Your expertise will guide the integration of digital solutions into commissioning, post-occupancy evaluations, and ongoing support. Representing IT at key boards, you will ensure seamless alignment with the Trust's broader IT strategy.

This is your opportunity to lead a transformative programme in a forward-thinking environment. Be part of a team driving innovation, improving care, and shaping the future of healthcare.

Main duties of the job

As Redevelopment Digital Manager, you will lead the Trust's Digital Strategy for the Redevelopment Programme, ensuring our new buildings are digitally enabled and seamlessly integrated with the IT strategy. You will collaborate with the ICT Team to define design principles and ensure digital solutions improve staff workflows, patient experiences, and operational efficiency.

Your role involves working with the Healthcare Planning Team to transform clinical pathways and ways of working, leveraging opportunities provided by new hospital designs. You will develop enterprise architecture that aligns with the IM&T strategy, supports strategic goals, and reflects best practices from horizon scanning of global innovations.

You will manage plans to maintain IT services in residual buildings during reconfiguration and engage vendors and partners to ensure robust digital solutions are embedded in design, construction, commissioning, and post-occupancy evaluations.

Representing IT on Programme and Project Boards, you will ensure full integration with the wider IT agenda, identifying and managing risks, issues, and actions, and maintaining transparent reporting. You will also oversee the digital aspects of building systems and ensure compliance, efficiency, and alignment with target operating models, driving service improvement through innovative digital transformation.

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. Please talk to us at interview. .

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 in a technology or computer science discipline; or equivalent experience
• Qualified Prince 2 Foundation
• Ongoing self-led programme of continuous personal development

Desirable criteria

• Management qualification
• Prince 2 qualified or training for qualification.
• Knowledge of IT architecture frameworks
• Professionally recognised IM&T qualification (Cisco, Microsoft etc)
• TOGAF certified

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum 5 years design and implementation experience in a senior level IT architecture, digital health and/or IT infrastructure role
• Demonstrable success in a minimum of two of the following disciplines: IT infrastructure, applied mobile technologies, digital health, medical equipment technology, network and telephony design, virtualisation (end user compute/server side), smart buildings
• Experience of major system procurement
• Policy review, development and implementation
• Expert in the development and management of service level agreements, commercial contracts and account management
• Leading an IT Transformation agenda/project
• Experience managing large scale highly complex and highly sensitive programmes and projects that require significant clinical and executive engagement for success
• Experience managing Capital and revenue budgets over £1m
• Researching, analysing and presenting information to Executives and Board members
• Successfully managing a diverse team

Desirable criteria

• NHS / public sector experience
• Experience of IT infrastructure building projects through design, procurement, fit out and live phases
• Experience working with senior clinicians
• Experience working with architectural design professionals

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Employs effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable an effective change management with stakeholders at all levels who may hold differing and contentious views
• Able to build relationships across organisational boundaries and share learning and blueprinting with peers and central teams
• Awareness of personal and political sensitivities and ability to adapt accordingly.
• Understanding of national, regional and local priorities and ability to lead service accordingly
• Commitment to the adherence and promotion of equality and diversity
• Communicates effectively in writing, including formal report writing, designing & delivering development programmes for colleagues

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 656.3KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)