Digital Healthcare Manager

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Hours
35 hours per week

About the Organisation

RCPCH has more than 25,000 members and fellows and employs around 200 staff, most of whom work in our London office in Holborn. We have a Devolved Nations team operating from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Our College values: Include, Influence, Innovate, and Inspire are important to us. These values ensure we bring out the best in each other and strive forward together to make the College a positive and dynamic place to work.

About the role

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is seeking an experienced and proactive Digital Healthcare Manager to lead our Digital Health Programme and help shape the future of digital paediatrics across the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering the College’s digital strategy, supporting paediatricians to navigate a rapidly evolving digital healthcare landscape, and ensuring children and young people benefit from safe, effective and equitable digital health solutions.

Reporting to the Head of Research and Evidence, you will lead the development and delivery of the RCPCH Digital Health Programme, working closely with senior clinicians, including the Vice President for Science and Research and the Officer for Digital Paediatrics. You will combine project management expertise, research skills and knowledge of digital healthcare to drive initiatives that support the paediatric workforce and influence national digital health policy. You will work with a wide range of stakeholders across healthcare, academia, government and industry, helping to identify emerging trends, develop resources and promote best practice in digital child health.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of the RCPCH Digital Health Programme, including leading activities related to the integration of digital health technologies into mainstream paediatrics.
• Participate in relevant Committees and working groups, ensuring adherence to College governance procedures, including reporting to Project Boards on progress against agreed timelines and deliverables, risks, and issues in a timely and efficient manner.
• Work with colleagues internally and externally to support building capacity and capability by embedding digital skills into the paediatric workforce and the development of education and training resources for paediatricians.
• Build relationships with external stakeholders and act as a representative of the College on external working groups/committees to represent the views of paediatricians, and by attending external events e.g. conferences.
• Horizon scan and identify at an early stage new and emerging developments in digital health.
• Work with the Head of Grants and Partnerships to identify sources of funding to support future work within the RCPCH’s digital strategy.
• Work with communications colleagues to create and implement communication plans and resources/assets related to the RCPCH Digital Health.
• Respond to member queries about paediatric digital health.
• Ensure that digital inclusion and equity is the foundation of any work developed and delivered by the RCPCH on digital child health.
• Deputise for the Head of Research and Evidence and undertake any other tasks as required

General:

• In addition to the specific duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description, all RCPCH employees should be aware of their specific responsibilities towards the following:
  • Lead, motivate and performance manage a team of staff, ensuring that they collaborate effectively across the College and wider sector, and are focused on achieving excellent outcomes for paediatrics through regular performance discussions and appraisal. 
  • Adhere to the College’s health and safety policies and associated procedures and to co-operate in maintaining good standards of health and safety.
  • Uphold ethical and professional standards and not behave in a manner that is likely to bring the College into disrepute.
  • To actively champion diversity and inclusion across the College, ensuring best practice at all times and challenging appropriately where standards or behaviour fall short
  • The role holder must be committed to confidentiality and the handling of college information in a secure way. The role holder will also be required to comply with the college’s Information Security Policy and Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing registration requirements or any national professional or occupational standards associated with the role.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing learning and development and to participate in any training relevant to the role.
  • The College is committed to encouraging young people to work with the College either through the apprenticeship programme and as such the post holder will be expected to support and respect young people, and may be asked to work alongside or supervise a young person as part of their role whilst working at the College.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding:

• RCPCH is committed to safeguarding the children, young people and adults it has contact with in the exercise of its functions and responsibilities. The RCPCH expects all staff to share this commitment.
• All staff are expected to be alert to safeguarding risks and to respond appropriately to such risks in accordance with the College’s safeguarding policy and procedures.
• All staff are required to take part in safeguarding training and development. Managers are required to ensure that they remain vigilant to any safeguarding concerns in respect of those they supervise and to ensure their teams regularly review actual and possible safeguarding dimensions in their work.
• The foundation of good safeguarding is a healthy organisational culture. All staff are expected to promote such a culture through their behaviours.

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Essential:

• Experience of producing high-quality written reports, documentation and promotional information suitable for a range of audiences
• Knowledge of research methodology, including literature searching and data analysis
• Experience of collaborative ways of working across multidisciplinary teams and programmes of work
• Ability to manage competing demands and conflicts whilst maintaining productive working relationships with stakeholders
• Demonstrable ability to understand and deal with information that is of a confidential/sensitive nature
• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written – and ability to influence and persuade a range of stakeholders with different levels of understanding and knowledge about complex issues
• Demonstrable programme and/or project management skills, capable of working autonomously and taking personal responsibility for own projects
• Ability to deliver multiple objectives within short time frames to high standards and to meet multiple deadlines
• Excellent proven organisational skills and an ability to adopt an orderly and precise approach to work, paying careful attention to detail and ability to follow standard procedures and ways of working.

Desirable:

• Project management qualification/certification
• An understanding of the education and training pathways of paediatric healthcare professionals

Required Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience with a research, health science, or digital healthcare component.

Compensation & Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave. 2 years of completed service, one additional day of leave of 29 days. Christmas and New Year, and these days are in addition to annual leave.
• Contributory Pension Scheme with an employer’s contribution of up to 10%
• Eye care vouchers
• 6-month probationary period.
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Comprehensive Learning & Development provision
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave
• Enhanced redundancy pay
• 21 hours volunteering leave per annum (pro rata for part-time staff)
• SMARTech up to £1000 once the probationary period has been successfully passed
• Cycle2Work up to £1000 once the probationary period has been successfully passed
• Occupational health, including counselling and neurodiversity assessments
• Paid IVF Leave
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss leave and pay

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the London office and remotely

How to apply

• If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply online. You will need to register on the applicant portal and complete the application form including your CV and supporting statement. 
• The supporting statement should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process, and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable.
• If you have questions about the role or would like to apply using a different format, please email [email protected]

Policies

The RCPCH champions Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Our workplace is inclusive, offering a supportive environment where staff can thrive. The College is keen to accept applications from people with protected characteristics. We believe that our staff should represent all of the diverse communities we serve. Join us to help realise our vision of a world where every child is well.

The RCPCH is committed to safeguarding the children, young people, and adults it has contact with in the exercise of its functions and responsibilities. The RCPCH expects all staff to share this commitment. We place a high priority on ensuring only those who do so are recruited to work for us.

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