Chief Digital Officer

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working

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  to tight and often changing timescales

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  Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues

• Experience

  Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment

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  Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring colleagues to work together to achieve a common objective

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  Ability to delegate effectively

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  Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required

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  Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes

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  Determination, perseverance, and resilience

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  Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment

• Qualifications

  Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area

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  Proven and significant leadership experience

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  Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus

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  further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent

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  Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development

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  Significant evidence of continued professional development

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  Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry

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  Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically

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  sensitive and complex environment

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  Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.

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  Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment

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  Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies

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  Member of a relevant professional body

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  Education sector knowledge

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  Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy

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  Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on

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  engagement

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  Should have an appreciation of the relationship between different health and social care bodies including individual provider and commissioning organisations

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  Commercial expertise

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  Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice

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  Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment

• Skills, abilities and knowledge

  Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills

• Skills, abilities and knowledge

  Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media

• Skills, abilities and knowledge

  Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of

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  stakeholders as required

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  Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of

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  stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments

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  Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources

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  Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making

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  Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives

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  Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly

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  Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management

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  Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects

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  High level critical thinking skills

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  Working knowledge of Microsoft Office

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  Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate

• Skills, abilities and knowledge

  Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives