Chief Digital Officer

• NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board
• University Hospitals Dorset Foundation Trust
• Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust
• Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust
• Dorset Council
• Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole Council
• 194 town and parish councils
• 18 primary care networks (made up of 73 GP practices)
• Southwestern Ambulance Service Foundation Trust
• Dorset Police
• Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
• 7,300 voluntary organisations

• Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
• Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
• Enhance productivity and value for money
• Help the NHS support broader social and economic development

Essential

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Proven and significant leadership experience
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus
• further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Significant evidence of continued professional development
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically
• sensitive and complex environment
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
• Member of a relevant professional body
• Education sector knowledge
• Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy
• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on
• engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between different health and social care bodies including individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Commercial expertise
• Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice

Essential

• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of
• stakeholders as required
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of
• stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
• High level critical thinking skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
• Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives

Essential

• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working
• to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring colleagues to work together to achieve a common objective
• Ability to delegate effectively
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Determination, perseverance, and resilience
• Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment