Join the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) in a new key leadership role, where you'll be responsible for three vital DDaT professions - Cyber Security, End User Device and Physical Infrastructure and Technology.
Leading the cyber security function ensuring our robust resilience to cyber risk. You'll set the broader technology strategy and seek opportunities for ongoing evolution and revolution with emerging and established technologies. You'll lead end user device units supporting 4000+ colleagues and physical infrastructure, seeking opportunities to rationalise and modernise.
We're looking for an energetic individual that will apply professional curiosity, drive a compelling vision, align diverse teams and stakeholders to deliver organisational impact and support shaping the NHSBSA strategic position within the broader healthcare system.
We're committed to being a flexible employer and are currently hybrid working. The office base for this role is Newcastle upon Tyne and we ask for flexibility to attend the office for in-person collaboration multiple times a week.
Interviews will take place in Newcastle on 15th and 16th July.
What do we offer?- 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years' service and 33 days after ten years' service + public holidays
- Excellent pension, 23.7% employer contribution
- Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
- NHS Car Lease Scheme
- Access to a wide range of benefits and high-street discounts
Main duties of the job As a senior leader and member of NHSBSA Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief DDaT Officer, you'll maximise resources and outcomes through productive sustainable delivery.
- Identify and implement significant efficiencies, communicate and embed significant transformational policy and process changes to continuously improve service provision and performance.
- Lead a large, diverse workforce, inspire and develop colleagues across a range of disciplines in continuous improvement utilising user centric design methodologies.
- Define and implement cyber security strategy, ensuring robust protection against evolving threats. Set, evaluate and enforce the policies and standards required for cyber resilience across the organisations services, identifying and addressing areas of weakness or opportunities for improvement.
- Lead the technology vision, ensuring a modern, secure, and scalable IT architecture. The design and adoption of practices and processes which ensure strong governance around technology choices.
- Oversee risk management and incident response planning, ensuring swift and effective responses to security threats.
- Implement Green IT practices to improve sustainability and energy efficiency in technology infrastructure.
- Lead the creation and implementation of an end user device strategy, ensuring it will be fit for the future leading the ongoing improvement of End User Device teams and capabilities.
See attached job description for full responsibilities.
About us Here at the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), what we do matters.We manage the NHS Pension scheme, process prescription payments and much more. Our services are used by NHS organisations, contractors and the public: we're proud to be part of something meaningful, that touches millions of lives.We design our services around customer needs and place people at the heart of our organisation. That's why when you join us, you'll be empowered and supported to help your career grow.As one of the UK's Best Big Companies to work for, we're connected to our values: Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We care about our people, our purpose, and your progress.We strive to offer a fantastic colleague experience, where every colleague is heard, supported and respected. Wellbeing, diversity and inclusion is at the centre of this, and you can join our Lived Experience Networks who help us bring our authentic selves to work.We're committed to being a flexible employer and we try to offer a working pattern that suits you where possible, through hybrid working, flexible hours and more.Alongside a competitive salary with pay progression, we offer a people-centric benefits package, connecting you to the rewards and benefits you value most.Ready to join us in delivering business service excellence to the NHS, helping people live longer, healthier lives? Apply today and see where the NHSBSA can take you.We are people connected to care.
Job responsibilities The role comprises of three core accountabilities Cyber Security - leading the organisations cyber security function, this will include setting the standards, policies and frameworks for all services across the NHSBSA and ensuring compliance, liaising with other public sector bodies and 3rd parties to ensure that the NHSBSAs resilience to a cyber risk is robust. Technology you will be responsible for setting the overarching technology strategy for the NHSBSA, keeping abreast of developments in the technology sector you will look for opportunities for ongoing evolution and revolution with emerging and established technologies. You will provide a strategic and cross organization view to our technology needs across all lines of business. End User Device and Physical Infrastructure you will lead the organisations end user device units supporting over 4000 colleagues and physical infrastructure (data centres) looking for opportunities to rationalize and modernize where possible.
Job summary:
1. This role will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a complex Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) agenda, maximising the use of resources within your remit, setting and achieving key performance indicators and break-even budgets, and maximising outcomes through productive sustainable delivery. You are responsible for corporate DDaT strategies and corresponding policies and procedures that drive value and efficiency through use of NHSBSAs supply chain and estate. Alongside this you will identify and successfully implement significant efficiencies across the directorates remit, communicate and embed significant transformational policy and process changes and look to continuously improve service provision, performance and customer experience.
2. As NHSBSAs Director responsible for its DDaT professions in Cyber and Technology, you will develop and maintain strategies and plans to drive professional excellence including compliance with government professional standards. In this role you will maintain effective relationships and influencing skills and will be responsible for leading and operationally managing the development, implementation, and improvement of your business area, including overall responsibility for service delivery, and relationship management of external partners specifically around complex and challenging contractual performance but also in working within the NHSBSA Partnership Key Principles relating to business, culture, and values. You will promote a high-performance culture across DDaT, also leading on designated Directorate and organisational wide developments which cut across both organisation and service boundaries aligned to the overall NHSBSA Strategy which the post holder will contribute to and help shape.
Please see attached job description for full accountabilities for this role.
Strategic Leadership Providing strategic leadership to a department of DDaT Professionals who provide services in line with role accountabilities to enable the delivery of the NHSBSA strategy and business plan through development and implementation of Strategy and associated plans, whilst supporting the Chief Officer in the development of vision and strategic direction.
Ensure that the platforms and processes utilised for service delivery are fit for purpose and work with suppliers to ensure that new system requirements continue to be delivered to the appropriate standard.
Working in collaboration with colleagues from the wider organisation, you will develop robust internal performance management systems which enable NHSBSA to adhere to or exceed strategic plans, standards, and targets, developing a culture of performance management, improvement, and appraisal for excellent organisational performance.
Delivering NHS-wide benefits and savings through embedding Government Functional Standards in NHSBSA operations.
Delivery, Data and Technology Leadership Define and implement the organisations cyber security strategy, ensuring robust protection against evolving threats, working with internal and external stakeholders such as UK Government, DHSC and NCSC you will set, evaluate and enforce the policies and standards required for cyber resilience across the organisations services, identifying and addressing areas of weakness or opportunities for improvement.
Lead the organisations technology vision, ensuring a modern, secure, and scalable IT architecture. You will create and define the organizations technology strategy which will move from the existing approach of build, buy, reuse to a reuse, buy, build model ensuring that the organization gains value from the commoditization of technical solutions. This will include the design and adoption of practices and processes which ensure strong governance around technology choices ensuring alignment to our strategic direction.
Oversee risk management and incident response planning, ensuring swift and effective responses to security threats. This will include the establishment and proactive incident response process including simulations and risk mitigation exercises to enhance cyber resilience.
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