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The Digitising Social Care (DiSC) team has been established to accelerate the adoption of digital technologies in adult social care.

The team is structured around the following workstreams:

• Implementation;
• Access to information;
• Digital transformation;
• Workforce / skills.

The DiSC team is responsible for delivering several digital programmes (including the DiSC programme, which is classified as a Government Major Project or Programme (GMPP) and projects that contribute to the commitments made in the People at the Heart of Care: Adult Social Care Reform White Paper.

Please note that the reason for the fixed term of your contract is: short term project due to funding.

The Senior Project Manager (Market Assurance) is responsible for the following:

• Working with key stakeholders to ensure that the standards assurance process is managed and implemented correctly and managing supplier queries about the process;
• Developing buyer guidance for social care providers to support them to purchase care tech;
• Supporting development of key delivery documentation including handling strategies and implementation plans
• Providing subject matter expertise to the programme teams and to external stakeholders on care tech procurement and transformation funding
• Ownership, cleansing and consolidation of care technology contract award data to support supplier contract management and wider programme progress reporting
• Managing the workstream in line with project and programme management best practice (including activities related to planning and control, risk and issue management and governance and assurance).

The newly-established Transformation Directorate in NHS England & NHS Improvement draws together Innovation, Research and Life Science; Improvement and Digital Transformation into a single team seeking to deliver transformative change for both patients, staff and clinicians in the NHS.

This in undertaken in three ways:
1) Redesigning services;

2) Data and analytics;

3) A learning and innovation NHS

The Directorate works together with clinicians and the frontline to redesign services, find creative solutions to address elective surgery, clearing the backlog and getting us back to previous levels of activity and beyond.

The NHS has an ability unique in the world to learn and innovate at scale. We have excellent innovators and research institutions in the UK. Many of the innovations are already being made somewhere on the NHS frontline, and part of our role is to encourage adoption and spread of these proven innovations, giving the frontline a bigger voice. We will be convening stakeholders to build improvement ideas, pilot new ways of operating, and scaling the adoption of successful pilots.

The Senior Project Manager (Market Assurance) is responsible for the following:

• Working with key stakeholders to ensure that the standards assurance process is managed and implemented correctly and managing supplier queries about the process;
• Developing buyer guidance for social care providers to support them to purchase care tech;
• Supporting development of key delivery documentation including handling strategies and implementation plans
• Providing subject matter expertise to the programme teams and to external stakeholders on care tech procurement and transformation funding
• Ownership, cleansing and consolidation of care technology contract award data to support supplier contract management and wider programme progress reporting
• Managing the workstream in line with project and programme management best practice (including activities related to planning and control, risk and issue management and governance and assurance).