Automation and Digital LeadNHS

Job summary

Automation and Digital Lead

Conexus Healthcare CIC, Wakefield

£46,631 to £54,402 per year | 37.5 hours per week | Permanent

Do you love finding a better way to do things? Can you turn a messy, manual process into something simple that just works? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Conexus Healthcare is the GP federation for Wakefield. We support all 34 GP practices and seven Primary Care Networks (PCNs), covering around 400,000 patients. As a community interest company, everything we do is about better care for local people.

About the role

As our first Automation and Digital Lead, you'll look across our HR, payroll, finance, workforce and clinical support teams. You'll find paper-based, repetitive and time-consuming processes and redesign them using digital tools. Much of this will use Microsoft 365, including Power Automate, SharePoint, Microsoft Forms and Power BI.

You'll also lead on our digital setup. That includes:

Managing our Microsoft 365 environment, working closely with the Health Informatics Service

Acting as the main contact with our system providers, such as People HR and Lantum

Helping to shape our policies and governance on the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI)

You'll work with colleagues at every level to understand how work really happens. Then you'll help them adopt new ways of working that stick. The result will be more time for our people to focus on practices, PCNs and patients.

Main duties of the job

What were looking for

• Experience leading process improvement or digital change projects from start to finish
• Hands-on experience building automated workflows or digital forms
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365, especially SharePoint and Power Automate
• A good understanding of UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and data security
• The ability to explain technical ideas in plain language and bring people along with change

Experience in the NHS or primary care would be a bonus, as would familiarity with SystmOne or EMIS Web. We'd also love to hear from you if you've used Power Apps or AI tools in a business setting.

Job description

The Automation and Digital Lead will make our ways of working simpler, faster and more reliable. You will find manual, paper-based and repetitive processes across Conexus and redesign them using digital tools and automation. You will lead this work across our HR, payroll, finance, workforce and clinical support teams. Much of it will use our Microsoft 365 platform, including SharePoint, Microsoft Forms, Power Automate and Power BI. You will work closely with colleagues at every level to understand how work really happens. You will then help teams adopt better ways of working that last. The aim is to free up time for our people to focus on supporting practices, PCNs and patients.

About us

What we offer

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with service

The option to buy and sell annual leave

Flexible hours between 8am and 6pm, with hybrid working

Laptop and mobile phone

Company sick pay and enhanced family leave pay (subject to service)

Salary sacrifice schemes

Training and development opportunities

You'll be based at Sandal Castle Medical Centre and will travel across the Wakefield District.