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The Operations Digital Lead will work in a challenging acute hospital environment, influencing operational practices and fostering engagement with digital technologies across multiple care groups without direct line management authority. The Trust encourages flexible working arrangements and emphasises the importance of identity checks, professional registration, and criminal record checks in their hiring process. Interested candidates are urged to apply early, as the position may close once sufficient applications are received.
Accountable to the Chief Operating Officer, the postholder will be lead for the effective integration and adoption of IT & Digital technologies for patient flow and hospital co-ordination. The postholder will work with the eCare Programme, Cornwall IT Services (CITS), clinical and operational leads.
The postholder will be responsible for leading, inspiring and developing the patient flow workforce to continuously engage with IT & Digital technologies driving improved standards of patient flow and discharge.
The post holder willlead on the interpretation and implementation of national policy for technologies related to patient flow, developing policies & procedures to deliver effective bed management processes and discharge across Royal Cornwall Hospitals.
- Deputise for the Chief Operating Officer for specific meetings.
- There may be instances where within the Trust Standing Orders the post holder will need to act with delegated authority on behalf of the Chief Operating Officer.
- The post holder will hold a portfolio of projects to deliver digital transformation which will include financial management in regard to delivering Cost Improvement Programmes (CIP). This will include complex CIP tracking with the savings being delivered in areas outside of the direct control of the post holder.
Working on behalf of the Chief Operating Officer in aligning digital operational behaviours and benefits across the wider Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System.
Provide day to day leadership on operational IT & Digital technology adoption, in the context of a pressured large acute hospital setting whilst leading on the implementation of national policy for technologies related to patient flow and discharge.
Influencing workforce, expenditure and ways of working across multiple care groups with individuals who the post holder does not have direct line management responsibility for.
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To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Work health assessments
- Criminal record check standards
- Right to work checks
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www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnswFbi
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.
We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Please note that sponsorship is not guaranteed. Please discuss any sponsorship requirements or working hours per week limits (due to your current visa) that you may have at interview.
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