Scrum Master / Agile Practice Lead - Fixed Term contract Remote
Job description
Job description
Do you have Scrum Master / Agile Practice Lead experiences?
We are looking for a Scrum Master / Agile Practice Lead to support Informatics team at Southampton General.
The University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust provides services to 1.9 million people living in Southampton and south Hampshire, while also providing specialist services such as neurosciences, cardiac services, and children's intensive care to the wider area.
The Trust is made up of 6 locations with Southampton General Hospital being the largest, running specialist services, emergency, and critical care along with outpatient clinics, diagnostic and treatment work, surgery, research, education and training. This is a large and busy site.
The Trust is driven to provide world-class care for all and have a mission that “together we care, innovate and inspire”, does this sound like the place for you?
We have a placement available for Scrum Master / Agile Practice Lead work remotly for an ASAP start and initially for 6 months with possible extension.
If you’re not already on the bank you will need to be able to provide a reference covering a 6-month period of employment within the last 3 years.
The working hours are 37.5 hours per week.
Monday - Friday
This is between Band 6-8 depends on experiences, the pay rate is from £17.24 - £24.82 per hour.
This individual will be the expert, and lead, on Scrum for the HICSS Commercial team, which is a Clinical software developed by UHS and used across many NHS hospital trusts in the UK.
In particular, the role holder will:
- Establish Scrum practices within the team
- Ensure the effectiveness of the Scrum Team’s practice on a daily basis.
- Lead strong Scrum/Agile practice and encourage the Scrum Team to adopt a disciplined Agile culture in daily work.
- Lead the team in continuously exploring higher levels of practice maturity, thus improving the delivery of value and quality to the customer.
- Provide leadership to UHS in its adoption of lean/Agile culture and practice.
- Produce regular reports which shows progress against the Scrum team’s backlog.
Key duties
1. To act as the Scrum Master across two to three HICSS Scrum Teams simultaneously.
2. Lead, influence and coach the HICSS Scrum Teams to ensure the successful adoption of robust Agile practices that support the delivery of the HICSS software development programme.
3. Lead the Product Owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction through a high degree of collaborative behaviours.
4. To lead and support the team in Scrum/Agile practice daily via Scrum stand ups, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective sessions, maintaining an environment of psychological safety.
5. Maintain awareness and cause the tenacious removal of various impediments (risk/issues) to the delivery of value to the customer.
6. Using Agile best practice to reprioritise the HICSS team workload and work schedule in line with interpretation of HICSS business strategic priorities.
7. To ensure the team delivers to their agreed quality standards whilst maintaining the team’s focus on defined product goals.
8. To lead the Scrum Team in designing, refining and continuously improving a comprehensive set of processes to manage their work.
9. Lead the implementation of changes to or development of new policies and procedures across the team.
10. To work with Scrum Team to develop, implement and distribute communications such as stakeholder updates, roadmaps, (re-)forecasts, and mandatory status reports in line with the Trust requirements and adhere to timescales.
11. Using sound judgement, investigate, test and implement a variety of supporting tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the team in a number of areas including:
a. Idea generation
b. Prioritisation of deliverables
c. User feedback analysis
12. Provide, analyse and interpret metrics to the Scrum Team and to provide regular reporting to key stakeholders regarding both the team and product, reacting accordingly. Metrics may include:
a. Team and product performance
b. Development throughput (supply and demand)
c. Effectiveness of practice
d. Stakeholder feedback
e. Product usage telemetry
f. Survey results
People leadership and management
13. To provide motivational leadership and coaching to the Scrum team members in self-management and cross-functionality to improve team performance.
14. To provide professional mentoring, specialist training and authoritative advice to the team members and stakeholders alike.
15. To aid the team in constructively navigating interpersonal conflict as when it is occurs, employing a wide range of skills including negotiation, coaching and mediation.
16. Together with line managers, to lead the design and re-structuring of Scrum Teams as when the need arises advocating Agile and Scrum best practices, considering the capacity of the team, the competencies of its members. This may include recruitment activities.
Stakeholder engagement
17. To work closely with, and to influence and persuade, a wide range of junior and senior stakeholders, potentially in large groups, to engage with the team’s delivery practice through various techniques including presentations.
18. To act where necessary as the contact point for the Scrum Team, dealing and responding effectively with complex, sensitive, and contentious information/queries from internal and external stakeholders across divisions.
19. To skilfully navigate difficult conversations, imparting extremely complex to senior stakeholders and team members alike when necessary.
20. To foster and encourage relationships which are crucial to the success of the team’s Agile practice, product delivery and to the Trust.
Coaching and development
21. To be an agent of culture change for both the team and wider organisation leading lean/Agile transformation, encouraging the transfer of knowledge and skills within the team.
22. Arrange and facilitate, as required, events and workshops to aid the design and development of the team’s product, distributing any outputs as necessary.
23. To provide expert advice and assessment to programme and portfolio leadership as to the appropriateness of Agile methodologies within different project contexts.
Miscellaneous
24. Using their own individual judgement to respond appropriately to conflicting work priorities, operational and development tasks.
25. Perform any other task consistent with grade and experience within reason, as requested by your line manager or senior management team.
26. Visit off site and non-UHS locations as required.
Do you have these skills?
IF YES … We look forward to hearing from you soon!
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our bank members who are not clinically exempt from vaccination to get vaccinated.
In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: –
- Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
- Dedicated consultants
- Flexible working options
- Free DBS and free training
- Build holiday allowance
- Support when you need it – 24/7 365 days
- Stakeholder pension scheme
Who are NHS Professionals?
NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.
Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don’t have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 126,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.
Register today for various flexible working options and long-term placement opportunities.
Disclaimer
Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months
Salary: £17.24-£24.82 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Scrum Master/Agile Practice: 2 years (required)
- Team management: 1 year (required)
Work Location: Remote
Reference ID: NHSPITSMVC
