Team Leader - Digital Systems

Job summary

Are you interested in making a difference to the lives of our patients and clinicians through digitisation? Could you lead a team of skilled digital health professionals to continue to improve our digital offerings? We need an innovator, someone who can see a digital or data challenge and proactively seek a solution. Someone who knows how to look after our systems and develop these to meet the needs of our stakeholders?

If so, we may have the role for you, let's talk about it.

The Team Leader for Digital Systems is a great opportunity to lead and manage the Trust's EPR Systems and Software Development/Dev Ops functions. You will be committed to the development of others and of yourself to deliver innovations that impact directly on frontline users enabling the delivery of good patient care.

To do this effectively, you will have good communication skills, facilitating links with other support functions and operational teams. You will need excellent organisational and problem-solving skills being able to plan, schedule and coordinate the delivery of multiple workstreams.

For further details on this role please contact: Simon Kelshaw, Head of Digital at

Generative AI Applications will be dismissed and will not support your progression to interview stage.

Base address: Sleaford, Lincolnshire / Hybrid Working

The post holder must have the ability to travel countywide or further afield at short notice.

Main duties of the job

1. To lead the delivery and day to day management of the relevant aspects of the Digital Health Team's function, including software development (Dev Ops), EPR development and administration, related projects and training

2. To be a role model the Trust values in all activities and interactions, leading by example

3. To demonstrate leadership whilst providing cover in the absence of line managers to ensure that functions within the realm of the team continue to be delivered to a high standard

4. To be a Digital Systems expert, providing specialist advice and guidance to managers, health professionals and other relevant members of staff on relevant Informatics related issues, understanding the relationship to their programmes of work

5. To provide significant support in leading change processes across the delivery of Digital Systems services, maintaining up to date skills and knowledge to support new ways of working.

6. To manage the recruitment, selection, development and retention of the relevant aspects of the Digital Systems Team and actively support the recruitment within all areas of Informatics

7. To direct, supervise and motivate within areas of responsibility within the Digital Systems Team to deliver an effective and efficient service

8. To provide line management across the Team ensuring all team members receive regular high quality supervision and appraisals

9. To support the Head of Digital in the management of the wider Digital & Data team, providing cover

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitto find out more.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Team Leader Digital Systems, is responsible for leading and developing the functions of software development (DevOps), Clinical Systems (Electronic Patient Record (EPR) development, administration, and training) and Clinical Systems development projects in the Informatics Team

The Team Leader Digital Systems reports to the Head of Informatics supporting this function to manage the functions of the Informatics Team they are responsible for including:

- Identifying and scoping areas of innovation and development

- Leading Informatics led projects

- Developing the workforce; identifying areas of need and opportunity to ensure the organisation has the right tools and resource in place

- Developing, creating, and monitoring the strategic workplan

- Providing proactive cover in their absence

- Responding to critical incidents as these arise

The post holder will lead the development and maintenance of Informatics-led clinical and corporate systems understanding the links and working collaboratively with data services ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the organisation

We reserve the right to refuse applications if there is evidence to show that there has been significant input from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Applications should be a true reflection of the applicant's knowledge, skills and experience.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Master's degree underpinned by theory and experience; or evidence of a minimum of 3 years working successfully in a similar management/leadership role Ongoing evidence of continued professional development as appropriate in either a leadership or technical role Microsoft Office 365 training or equivalent experience with the use of a variety of Office 365 packages Line management training and experience

Desirable

Recognised project management qualification PRINCE 2

Experience

Essential

Evidence of successful leadership, coaching and management skills within a large diverse organisation. Experience of managing, developing, recruiting and retaining staff Management of a team to facilitate delivery of team objectives Experience of working with patient records systems Working knowledge of Data Services tools Demonstrable experience of successfully delivering technically complex workstreams Experience of developing and delivering training packages Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior manager level audience Knowledge of Data Protection Act, GDPR & Information Governance Understanding of data warehousing concepts and architecture

Desirable

Working within NHS or Social Care Experience of mental health working in either the NHS or an Independent Service Provider

Skills

Essential

Track record of successful team management Ability to communicate effectively and clearly to a range of audiences with the ability to be persuasive and influence others for the delivery of the Trust strategic objectives Advance knowledge of Microsoft 365 packages Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and information Evidence of organisational and time management skills High level of interpersonal skills including self-awareness and how their actions may be perceived by others Ability to respond to diverse demands and expectations, to prioritise and work to conflicting deadlines, ensuring competing demands are met Ability to gather business requirements from clinical or non-clinical colleagues and translate these into a brief for development or configuration Demonstrates the use of sound judgement when decision making Demonstrates experience of successful change management projects, negotiation and influencing skills within a variety of settings Demonstrates the Trust's values including evidence of professionalism and confidentiality Demonstrates awareness of customer focussed services Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures using recognised change processes

Desirable

Proven ability to produce concise and persuasive reports and analysis

Special Requirements

Essential

Open to constructive challenge Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and take responsibility for decisions Team player Pragmatic Logical approach to problem solving Able to work under pressure with competing priorities Personal credibility, with ability to quickly gain the confidence of others Takes a patient-centric approach in all areas of work and development Ability to travel to all Trust and stakeholder sites within the Lincolnshire area, other reference sites and off-site training and meeting venues out of area

Desirable

Understanding of how the field of Informatics relates directly to performance and clinical effectiveness of service delivery Actively seeks Continuous Development