ICT Application Services Manager

Job summary

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd (DSFS) based in Chesterfield are looking to appoint the right candidate into the exciting role of ICT Applications Manager to join the DSFS ICT Operations Team. This involves leading and managing the ICT Applications Team delivering a first class service to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Interviews will be W/C 20th January 2025

Main duties of the job

To provide personal leadership and management to the ICT Applications Services team, ensuring they are clear about their objectives, responsibilities, and accountabilities. To ensure they are regularly appraised and have a personal development plan that supports them and the business to meet objectives.

Lead on all aspects of the ICT Applications Services delivery provided by the ICT support team.

Act as a key point of contact for the ICT Applications Services users throughout all DSFS customers; communicate ICT Applications Services issues to internal and external staff, providing guidance on courses of action available.

Ensure that incidents, changes and service requests are managed in accordance with Service Level Agreements; ensuring that change management and implementation processes are robust and effective in supporting business needs.

About us

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Please see below link for the DSFS website.

DSFS - Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Limited | DSFS

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For details of this exciting role, please see the attached Job description and Person Specification. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential
  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience (preferably in a Computing/IT or Health related discipline)
Desirable
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent evidence of experience.
  • Software Testing qualification (e.g. ISTQB foundation).
  • Experience of managing large organisation wide clinical applications. Service Management qualification (e.g. ITIL foundation).
  • Risk Management qualification (e.g. M_o_R foundation).

Experience

Essential
  • Experience of managing team leaders and multiple teams concurrently
  • Experience of service management in a large IT infrastructure and systems environment (2000+ PC's; 450 +servers; 4000+ users).
  • Experience of writing, implementing and controlling operational processes/ procedures
  • Experience of delivering ICT support services against contractually enforceable KPI's
Desirable
  • NHS experience
  • Project Management of a successful, medium sized Application implementation
  • Previous management/ administration of a Health Information System

Skills and Knowledge

Essential
  • Understanding of the application of a QMS system such as ITIL, ISO 9001 or equivalent.
  • Extensive stakeholder management skills
  • Knowledge of acceptance into Business As Usual process
  • Strong supplier liaison skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - both written and oral
  • Strong Application / System management knowledge
Desirable
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills for self and team
  • Understanding of process development and change implementation

Personal Attributes

Essential
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to communicate with all levels of staff including senior clinicians
  • Supplier liaison skills
  • Provide leadership

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

DSFS Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Top Road Calow

Chesterfield

S44 5BL


Employer's website

https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/


Company
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Chesterfield, United Kingdom S44 5BL
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£48059.00 - £52285.00 a year
Posted
Company
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Chesterfield, United Kingdom S44 5BL
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£48059.00 - £52285.00 a year
Posted