Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading providers of mental health, learning disability and drug & alcohol services for people of all ages in Southern England. We deliver high quality care across our 140 services, employing more than 3,000 staff across 39 sites, serving a population of 1.3 million, with an income of over £350m. We have been recognised as 'Good' by CQC and have a strong reputation for innovation and partnership working.
We have been at the forefront of championing the positive impact that innovation can have on mental health services and have been nationally recognised for our work in this area. We have aligned our Digital and Transformation teams, recognising the exciting opportunities for innovation and new technologies to improve services and transform how we work.
We are now seeking to appoint an Executive Director of Digital & Transformation. An integral member of the Trust's Executive Leadership team, your key responsibilities will include:
- Designing and leading organisational and system change that reflects the needs of the people we serve, aligning with the Trust's strategic objectives to deliver high quality, financially sustainable, and effective care closer to the places where people live, learn and work.
- Overseeing the development of an aligned transformation capability, leveraging commercial, innovation, digital, data, technology and R&D capabilities while also ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to deliver safe and reliable services
- Ensuring that the digital agenda is front and centre of our future thinking and that we are using data, knowledge, and technology to improve clinical and operating model design across the Trust
- Using modern methodologies/thinking to support robust programme, project and product management, focussing on user centred design approaches that keep user experience and outcomes at the fore.
- Contributing to our system-wide transformation priorities, sharing knowledge, skills and capabilities to improve population outcomes, building collaborative and strategic partnerships across the health economy, and with local government and other statutory and voluntary sector organisations
- Working as an active member of the executive team in the development and management of the Trust's strategy, culture, services.
We are looking for you to bring significant leadership experience in a senior transformation and/or digital role. You will have led transformation and improvement programmes across complex organisations within healthcare or a related setting, including implementing digital innovation to improve service quality and effectiveness. You will be an inspiring, collegiate, and compassionate leader who shares our values, with excellent people management skills and experience of building and developing highly effective teams.
In return, we offer an exciting opportunity to join a Trust with a strong culture of encouraging innovation, where you can bring your experience of transforming services to positively impact the lives of people that use our services, and our workforce.
