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No more evident than at this time, NHS National Services Scotland’s (NSS) mission is to support the delivery of better health and care as a vital part of NHS Scotland providing solutions and services enabling NHS Boards on delivering health improvement and patient care.
The core purpose of the Digital & Security organisation is the provision of world class Digital and Security expertise, solutions and services to our customers, which include NSS, NHS Boards, Scottish Government and the wider Public Sector in Scotland.
A critical role in ensuring integrated Business Technology strategy and delivery of suitable and effective solutions and services is the Portfolio Resource Manager (PRM) position. This role provides the end to end view of all activity and resource allocations across Digital and Security to ensure full transparency of activity against priorities, funding and optimum resource utilisation.
As a PRM you will be responsible for capturing, estimating and managing the entire DaS view of activity, promptly responding to requests for estimations and new change opportunities typically via the Senior Management Team and the Digital Business Partners network. In addition to sizing future opportunities, keep a close watch on the likely approvals of the new work in order to agree and plan scheduling against relative priorities and to set expectations on availability of resources to commence new demand requests. To establish a and manage a clear pipeline of demand and the status and to provide dashboards and reporting to allow the customer facing teams to manage expectations and plan accordingly for new demand requests. To work closely with the Pillar and Senior Management Team across DaS and the associated resource managers to build effective planning and tracking reports to ensure maximum transparency on the allocation of DaS resources to deliver maximum value across all areas of Operations and delivery. You will be a key player in the development of the Digital Office function, and in partnership with the wider Digital Office team establish and promote a customer focused, consistent and professional approach. You will liaise and partner across Clinical, Transformation, Cloud Operations and Information Security areas in ensuring cross-functional approaches and methods are deployed.
Applications are invited from individuals who have Portfolio and Resource planning and delivery management experience in a technical discipline who are both operationally minded to drive improvements and are curious to drive new ways of working and technology implementation to achieve step function changes in delivery.
The successful candidate must comply with the Mandatory Induction Standards and with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.
The successful candidate will also be required to undergo a Disclosure Scotland check.
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Shelley Brackenridge on Shelley.Brackenridge@nhs.scot
Further information on NSS is available from: https://www.nss.nhs.scot/
Closing date for completed applications is Friday 16th July 2021
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies