Head of Implementation and Business Change Manager
Job summary
NHSE is investing in a pioneering Federated Data Platform (FDP) to leverage data for enhancing patient care, optimizing resource allocation, and enabling real-time decision-making. The Head of Implementation & Business Change is crucial in delivering and growing this high-profile programme. This role drives transformation, implementation, and adaptability in the evolving FDP landscape, leading strategic initiatives that align with NHS priorities and respond to changing needs. The post holder ensures NHS organisational involvement in product development, builds capabilities within NHSE engineering, and oversees the rollout of non-core FDP products, ensuring alignment with best practices, strategic priorities, and financial sustainability.
Main duties of the job
- Collaborate with NHS leadership to shape the FDP programme's vision by connecting NHS organisations pain points with solutions.
- Lead the development, implementation, and management of transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with system and trust goals.
- Oversee FDP product pilots to ensure they meet functionality requirements and can scale nationally.
- Develop and deliver the change strategy for the FDP Demand and Delivery team, driving successful organizational change across all impacted stakeholder groups.
- Oversee the growth of NHSE's FDP engineering function and expand the apprenticeship programme for sustainability.
- Drive matrix working across engineering, product, and Solution Exchange teams to integrate third-party suppliers.
- Build strategic relationships with 3rd party organisations, regional leads, and other stakeholders to align with NHSE's goals and lead introspective projects with D&D leads to review progress against team objectives.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note this job vacancy is based in either Wellington Place, Leeds LS1 4AP, Wellington House, London SE1 8UG.
This advert has attached Assignment Briefs/ information relating to roles currently vacant. However, please be aware that this recruitment may also be used to fill other positions that become vacant after the time of advert, for which Assignment Briefs or team information are not available. This will be limited to roles where the competencies to be assessed and requirements for the role are appropriately similar.
Person Specification
Skills
- Develop and communicate the change strategy for the FDP Programme, outlining the vision, objectives, and approach to drive successful organisational change across all impacted stakeholder groups. This includes customers (ICSs and Trusts), impacted business areas (whose existing products are being transitioned as part of FDP or are implementing new products, and the wide range of stakeholders working directly on the programme
Experience
- Lead Digital Product Implementation: Drive the delivery of FDP pilots, ensuring alignment with NHS providers and commissioners' needs and operational frameworks
- Use case development: Identify and select suitable sites for product incubation and piloting within the NHS, and manage pilots to validate use cases, refine products based on user feedback, and build business cases to support wider rollouts
- Understand NHS operations: Leverage in-depth knowledge of NHS providers and commissioners to tailor solutions that address specific challenges and opportunities within the healthcare sector
- Identify and engage key stakeholders, including executives, sponsors, project teams, and end-users, to ensure their buy-in, support, and active participation in the change initiative.
Knowledge
- Create a comprehensive change management plan that includes change impact assessments, stakeholder analysis, communication strategies, training plans, and resistance management strategies.
Qualifications
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of professional qualification or experience
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
NHS England
Address
NHS England Office in Leeds/ London
Leeds/ London
SE1 8UG
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/
- Company
- NHS England
- Location
- Leeds/ London, United Kingdom SE1 8UG
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £88168.00 - £101677.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- NHS England
- Location
- Leeds/ London, United Kingdom SE1 8UG
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £88168.00 - £101677.00 a year
- Posted