Job overview

Are you passionate about how digital can transform healthcare services, for our donors, patients and NHS colleagues? We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Director of Digital Delivery to help lead the Digital Services team, to work collaboratively with colleagues across the Trust and wider NHS Wales organisations, to provide critical digital systems and insight-led services that support our transformation.

The Trust is entering an exciting period of change, set out in our Destination 2033 vision, which includes the establishment of a new world class cancer centre to extend and enhance specialist cancer treatment and the delivery of cancer care closer to home through new ‘satellite’ sites. For the Welsh Blood Service, there is the opportunity to work on the exciting future of blood and transplant services, both improving our capabilities and resilience alongside developing new services, including plasma for medicines, and expertise to support improved healthcare in Wales.

Over the next five years, we will revolutionise the way in which we deliver our services – from co-producing innovative technologies, working on digital inclusion in Wales, to embedding data & insight into our everyday. 

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the development and service management of digital and clinical IT systems and applications locally to support the delivery of Trust’s digital strategy.  Reporting to the Chief Digital Officer, this role will be responsible for all aspects of service management for all Infrastructure and Application Services across the Trust.

The role is responsible for the attainment of IT operational performance service levels, managing customer expectation and escalation processes, infrastructure monitoring, control, provision and change activities, disaster recovery and business continuity services.

The role is responsible for defining the full architectural strategy and roadmap for the Trust, so that digitally enabled high quality care can be delivered. The post holder is jointly responsible for developing the vision, governance and leading and overseeing adherence to the architecture strategy and framework. As a key member of the Digital Services senior management team they will provide digital direction and leadership to the Trust.

The post holder will have managerial responsibility for the Infrastructure and Application Services teams across the Trust, providing leadership, direction and mentoring and day to day management of the team.

The post holder will be responsible for the evolution of local and national applications managing their interoperability across the Trust’s architecture and the national architecture for NHS Wales. 

Working for our organisation

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services. 

Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/