Change Manager

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Change Manager to join Digital and Data Services at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting time for the Trust as we continue to deliver and mature our ambitious digital transformation programme. Over the past four years, we have made significant progress in transforming working practices and patient care through our electronic patient record and wider digital capabilities. We are now focused on building on these foundations, embedding change, realising benefits and supporting further transformation across the organisation.

The post holder will support colleagues in a wide range of roles across a dynamic and complex transformation environment. We are looking for a highly motivated, self-starting and imaginative individual with strong engagement and influencing skills, who can build commitment to complex projects and support the successful delivery of change.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex information in a clear and accessible way, working with clinical, administrative and corporate colleagues at all levels, as well as external partners and stakeholders.

If you are looking to contribute to meaningful digital transformation in one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Key areas of achievement for the post holder would include:

• Leading or supporting Digital and Data Services transformation projects across the Trust.
• Working closely with project teams to develop, define and shape change, integrating change management and ensure successful delivery and adoption of large-scale change.
• Promoting a digital culture across the Trust.
• Creating and implementing change management plans that maximise employee adoption and minimise resistance.
• Working closely with others to establish effective networks to communicate change and using motivational skills to encourage collaborative working.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Bond Job title: Senior Change Manager Email address: Laura.Bond@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0191 607 3653

Natasha Davy

Deputy Head of Change Management

natasha.davy@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

0191 6073629