Scrum Master London, England
Job description
HEAD OFFICE
Scrum Master
Scrum Master – Employee Devices & Productivity
Hybrid – Epsom | Technology | Permanent | Full Time
Competitive salary, depending on experience
37.5 Weekly Hours
Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.
As a multi-skilled Scrum Master, you’ll build, coach and guide Development Teams and Product Owner to deliver within an Agile environment. We are looking for someone who is passionate about contributing to our Nuffield Health purpose ‘to build a healthier nation’. Who can deliver alongside driving forward our Technology wide initiative to be more agile. We are currently operating within Units and Squads with cross-dependent technologies, meaning we’re looking for someone with great collaboration & communication skills and with a little experience of Waterfall style project management.
We are looking for an experienced scrum master to oversee and guide scrum teams. The scrum master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
To be successful as a scrum master, you should have a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding scrum master should have excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.
Scrum Master Responsibilities:
Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.
Scrum Master Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
Certified scrum master, SAFe experience is desirable.
3+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
Leadership and management experience.
Excellent people and project management skills.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Some formal of informal experience in Waterfall methodologies i.e. Prince2, PMI. PMBook
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From free private healthcare to gym membership, a cycle to work scheme and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
It starts with you.
