Digital Delivery Manager

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At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

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Please note: all vacancies automatically close when 50 applications have been received.

Job overview

The Delivery Manager is a key role in the delivery of our digital strategy, shaping and managing high-profile, complex digital transformation projects and programmes. The role is crucial for creating and maintaining focus, enthusiasm and momentum for their defined project areas, working with all teams within the Trust and the ICB.

The postholder will be expected to manage project progress and expenditure, liaising with key stakeholders. This includes ensuring alignment with financial planning and the capital programme and the postholder will be expected to be a lead contributor in funding bids and support the development of business cases to exploit external funding opportunities. The role involves working closely with colleagues in varying roles and seniority across the Trust, including clinicians and executive directors as well as the ICB. The postholder will also lead internal squads using Agile project management methods (e.g. Scrum and Kanban).

The postholder will be an expert at digital transformation, bringing a creative mindset to help design programmes which transform the way our staff work. They will be a specialist in Agile project management, comfortable with working within PMO structures, and great at delivering challenging data and information to various members of staff. The postholder will demonstrate excellent leadership and problem-solving skills, negotiation and facilitation skills.

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• Creatively shape and manage large digital transformation programmes for the Trust, ensuring that transformational aims and deliverables are achieved, within a specified time frame, within budget and that the programme organisation is consistent with the complexity of the project.

• Build and maintain multi-disciplinary DDAT delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well, and focused on what is most important to delivery

• Use specialist knowledge, consultancy skills and experience to advise on DDAT solutions and guide staff on a course of action.

• Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques

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Diversity makes us interesting… Inclusion is what will make us outstanding.

Inequality exists and the journey to eliminate it is not easy. Every step we take will be a purposeful step forward to deliver a truly inclusive culture where all our people are enabled to deliver outstanding care, where background is no barrier, and where everyone can be their authentic self and we truly represent our patient community.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where possible. All applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the post can opt for a guaranteed interview.

If you need additional help with your application please get in touch by calling the recruitment team on 0118 322 6997 or 0118 322 5342.

Our primary method of communication will be via email. However, if you would prefer to be contacted through a different method, please inform the recruitment team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Responsibilities

• To manage a wide range of DDAT projects ensuring that the deliverables are produced to the required quality, within a specified time frame, within budget and that the project organisation is consistent with the complexity of the project.

• To build and maintain multi-disciplinary DDAT delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well, and focused on what is most important to delivery

• To coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques

• Use specialist knowledge, consultancy skills and experience to advise on DDAT solutions and guide staff on a course of action.

• To diagnose complex DDAT problems by analysing information and data in order to recommend a solution.

• To develop, maintain and monitor plans for projects, tailoring the plans in accordance with the complexity of the project.

• To develop business cases for securing project funding using experience to ensure that costs for all impacted departments and/or services are identified.

• To follow Trust Standing Financial Instructions.

• To manage the budget during the course of the project/s.

• To use specialist knowledge for developing specifications (Output Based Specifications) where a need for an DDAT solution is identified. This will involve significant analytical work.

• To develop appropriate communication plans and communicate at all levels within the organisation.

• To facilitate or contribute to post implementation reviews.

• To document the lessons learned from the implementations and communicate these to a wide range of staff (internal and external) either by presentation or formal report.

• To use specialist knowledge to ensure that DDAT implementations are carried out in accordance with change management best practice.

• For more details please see attached job description.

We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Staff Benefits

• Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
• Annual leave – 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
• NHS pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Money Advice Service
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
• On-site nursery (based at RBH)
• Full educational library services
• Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
• Bus to work scheme
• Excellent rail and bus links
• A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.

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