# Head of Strategic Improvement (Digital & Capital) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-strategic-improvement-digital-and-capital/e6110a52-dd21-432e-b17b-04461986c9c9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-strategic-improvement-digital-and-capital/e6110a52-dd21-432e-b17b-04461986c9c9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust - **Town:** Leicester - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 per annum - **Contract type:** Secondment: 12 months - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-27T09:27:06.775Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Leicestershire/Leicester/University_Hospitals_Leicester_NHS_Trust/Corporate_Operations/Corporate_Operations-v8109565 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8109565?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated senior leader to join UHL as Head of Strategic Improvement (Digital & Capital). This is a pivotal role supporting the delivery of digitally enabled improvement, service redesign and capital development across one of the largest and busiest NHS trusts in the country. You will act as a key link between operational services, clinical teams, One Digital, estates, finance and corporate colleagues to ensure that digital and capital priorities are shaped by real operational need and deliver measurable benefits for patients, colleagues and services. The post holder will provide visible leadership across complex and high-profile programmes, supporting teams to translate strategy into practical delivery. You will work closely with senior leaders across the Trust.  A key part of the role will be ensuring that digital solutions land well in operational services and that improvement, digital and capital programmes are coordinated effectively across organisational boundaries. We are looking for a collaborative, credible and values-driven leader with significant experience of delivering transformation in complex environments. This is an excellent opportunity to play a leading role in shaping digitally enabled improvement and strategic change at UHL, helping us deliver better services for the people of LLR. ### Main duties of the job - Provide senior leadership for the delivery of digitally enabled improvement, service redesign and capital development across the Trust. - Act as a key link between operational services, clinical teams, One Digital, estates, finance and corporate colleagues, ensuring that digital and capital priorities are shaped by operational and clinical need. - Lead and support complex improvement programmes that improve quality, safety, productivity, patient experience, colleague experience and financial sustainability. - Work with senior leaders across Clinical Management Groups and Corporate Directorates to identify opportunities for digital enablement, service improvement and capital investment. - Strengthen programme governance, reporting and assurance arrangements to support effective decision-making and delivery at pace. - Ensure improvement activity is data driven, clinically informed and aligned to Trust priorities, national policy and wider system objectives. - Lead, manage, coach and develop members of the team, supporting colleagues working across digital, improvement and capital programmes within a matrix management structure. - Build strong and credible relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior operational and clinical leaders, One Digital, finance, estates, commissioners, NHS England colleagues, system partners and suppliers. - Monitor delivery of key programmes, risks, milestones and benefits, taking action to resolve issues and escalate where appropriate. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please reference the job description and person specification. Key duties include, - Act as the principal link between One Digital and operational services, translating digital strategy into practical improvement and ensuring operational and clinical needs shape digital priorities. - Provide specialist leadership and support to managers, clinicians and corporate teams on digital enablement, service improvement and capital development. - Support and coordinate the development and delivery of digital programmes, improvement plans and capital schemes, ensuring Trust and national deadlines are achieved. - Ensure the Trust maximises quality, productivity and value through well planned investment, programme delivery and service redesign. - Manage, lead and develop the team and provide coaching and oversight to colleagues operating within a matrix structure across digital, improvement and capital programmes. - Work closely with One Digital, senior managers, clinicians, finance, estates and capital teams to ensure effective development and delivery of programmes, supported by robust business intelligence, planning and performance information. - Advise and support CMGs and Corporate Directorates on service developments linked to digital enablement, improvement and capital investment. - Act as a point of contact for digital improvement and capital activity across CMGs and Corporate Directorates, building effective internal and external relationships to support benchmarking, innovation and identification of new opportunities. - Contribute to the development of financially robust business cases and proposals for digital, capital and revenue investment, and support implementation of agreed developments and benefits realisation. - Support digitally enabled transformation and major capital developments, ensuring improvement activity is data driven and aligned to service redesign, operational readiness and delivery of benefits. - Champion user-led design, working with clinical and operational colleagues so that digital solutions reduce friction and meet real-world needs. - Deputise for the Associate Director of Operations - Improvement as required. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience and expert knowledge of project and programme management - Evidence of leading challenging strategic projects for a minimum of five years within the NHS or another health-related setting **Desirable** - Experience of project and programme management within a provider Trust ### Physical skills **Essential** - Keyboard skills ### Equality and Diversity **Essential** - Able to demonstrate a commitment and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs ### Training & Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to Masters Level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area - Clear evidence of continuous professional development. **Desirable** - Qualification in project / programme management (e.g. Prince 2) - Qualification in Quality ### Analytical and Judgement skills **Essential** - Capacity to make judgements involving highly complex data - Ability to present analysis and interpretation of NHS acute information (both financial and non-financial) - Ability to prioritise workload in instances where no precedent exists - Ability to specify information requirements and manage production of that information - Able to prioritise tasks in a highly complex project - Able to demonstrate rigour and judgement in presenting complex technical issues to senior managers - High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear and concise manner - Ability to concentrate for long periods of time on pieces of complex data and policy, whilst managing competing priorities - Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands; - Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise ### Planning and organisation skills **Essential** - Able to plan and organise a highly complex managerial process - Able to project plan in a coherent and understandable fashion - Able to deliver to tight deadlines with high quality outcome - Able to lead and organise a multi -disciplinary team in highly complex activities - Able to work in a “matrix” way with a wide range of professional peers and superiors in a highly complex environment - Maintain a strategic approach to the delivery of a project or programme, whilst providing senior leadership to support specific outputs. This may include involvement in very detailed aspects of work as required ### Communication and relationship skills **Essential** - Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills - Able to communicate highly complex technical data in a rigorous manner, utilising a variety of media - Excellent written communications skills - Able to build relationships of trust with external and internal stakeholders - Able to manage conflict in an open manner - Intellectual flexibility – evidence of the facility to embrace and cut through ambiguity and complexity and be open to creativity in leading and developing services - Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management where appropriate - Demonstrable ability to influence a range of stakeholders to achieve a required outcome ### Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours ## Documents - [employee benefits (pdf, 578.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2350) - [person specification (pdf, 248.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10404530) - [understanding your right to work in the uk (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2349) - [jd head of strategic improvement (digital & capital) (pdf, 104.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10474414) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.