Head of Implementation and Business Change Manager

at  NHS England

NHSE is investing in a pioneering Federated Data Platform (FDP) to leverage data for enhancing patient care, optimizing resource allocation, and enabling real-time decision-making. The Head of Implementation & Business Change is crucial in delivering and growing this high-profile programme. This role drives transformation, implementation, and adaptability in the evolving FDP landscape, leading strategic initiatives that align with NHS priorities and respond to changing needs. The post holder ensures NHS organisational involvement in product development, builds capabilities within NHSE engineering, and oversees the rollout of non-core FDP products, ensuring alignment with best practices, strategic priorities, and financial sustainability.
Collaborate with NHS leadership to shape the FDP programme’s vision by connecting NHS organisations pain points with solutions.
Lead the development, implementation, and management of transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with system and trust goals.
Oversee FDP product pilots to ensure they meet functionality requirements and can scale nationally.
Develop and deliver the change strategy for the FDP Demand and Delivery team, driving successful organizational change across all impacted stakeholder groups.
Oversee the growth of NHSE’s FDP engineering function and expand the apprenticeship programme for sustainability.
Drive matrix working across engineering, product, and Solution Exchange teams to integrate third-party suppliers.
Build strategic relationships with 3rd party organisations, regional leads, and other stakeholders to align with NHSE’s goals and lead introspective projects with D&D leads to review progress against team objectives.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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Please note this job vacancy is based in either Wellington Place, Leeds LS1 4AP, Wellington House, London SE1 8UG.
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