Digital Business Partner

Job summary

NHS Band 8A: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Hours per Week: Full Time 37.5

Contract: Temporary for 12 months

The Digital Business Partner is an influential member of the Department acting in a pivotal role, helping to build digital skills across the Trust by providing professional expertise, guidance and facilitation of digital service & solution provision and enabling the effective delivery of integrated services & performance of the Digital Department. They are expected to improve the effectiveness and value of health care delivery in the Trust by:

• Providing professional expertise to services in order to deliver strategic and operational priorities and outcomes
• Facilitating the delivery of the Trusts Digital Strategy and supporting clinical adoption and engagement in use of digital solutions and services
• Through close working with Divisions of the Trust understand business issues, risks, opportunities & priorities, help to provide strategic digital direction and embed excellent digital planning, practice and standards
• Supporting the Digital Department forward planning and delivery of digital services & solutions - representing Divisional interests, inputting opportunities for digital transformation & improvement and highlighting problems/escalating issues as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Proactively and positively contribute to the successful overall performance of the Trust.
• Deliver excellent levels of customer service to all patients/visitors and staff at the Trust.
• Develop effective ways of working and create strong partnerships and relationships with all stakeholders to support the implementation of the Government's policies on Health.
• Develop an organisational culture that fosters collaborative working among all staff groups, to ensure a focused commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes.
• Act as an advocate for the Trust & its contribution to the Health Service arena through creating effective partnerships and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.