Deputy Head of Digital Assurance: Sponsorship Available

Job Title: Deputy Head of Digital Assurance
Agency: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 66,274 to 73,496 £ / Year

As a member of the Digital Assurance team within Digital Services, you will be responsible for the Operational delivery of services and staff within your team. Driving efficiency, good practice, and a passion for every customer getting an excellent service must be a key driver. Being a senior figure in the Digital Services department, you must be able to adapt yourself to the different services that you line manage. Maintain service for customers and continually improve that service. A proactive worker thinking outside the box to maintain or reinstate service for customers, driving efficiency.

We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in conjunction with the BCS membership.

Main duties of the job

Being a Senior technology professional, you will be required to mentor and coach other members of the Digital Services department for career development. You will work closely with all elements of Digital Services to deliver the best outcomes of the service and for customers. Offering a “can-do”, proactive approach to service delivery and ultimately delivering for the service needs. You will be a member of, and not limited to, the Digital Services Department Business Continuity team.

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of:

• Service Reporting both internal to Digital and the wider Trust
• Communications
• Process and Policy
• End-User Education
• Reporting and Monitoring
• Asset Management
• Quality Assurance and Contracts
• Operational Responsibilities for the Digital Assurance Teams

As one of the few Trusts in London, we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role, you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frame from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of a good work-life balance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Master’s level or equivalent experience
• ITIL Foundation Version 4 or equivalent
• Customer Service Qualification

Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• Experience of providing leadership to staff individually and to teams
• Experience with working within an IT /Digital department
• Experience in managing incidents
• Extensive experience and knowledge of ITSM.
• Experience of managing a service management function
• Experience of working as a Support Service, delivering and handling negotiations with customers, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Proven experience of Managing and coaching staff
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and productivity suites
• Ensuring appropriate, effective communication on service issues to a wide range of audiences, both internally and externally at all levels within the Trust and any partner or supplier.
• Ability to create networks with peers and managers across the Trust.
• Negotiate with customers, including clinicians and managers.
• Handle complex and multi-stranded communications
• Extensive highly developed specialist knowledge, skills, experience & expertise in Digital Services Operations management including that of staff
• Experience of Project management and leading projects to successful completion
• Understand the importance of Digital Services good practices around service delivery and security
• Customer focused with good verbal communication skills
• Good time management
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team to meet deadlines
• Ability to plan, agree, schedule, document and implement changes using a structured change control process
• Ability to follow instructions and work unsupervised
• Logical, methodical, proactive and enthusiastic in working practices
• The ability to translate technical Jargon information for customers to understand
• The ability to work on occasion longer hours to get the job completed for deadlines
• Monitor and assist in managing the budget for the Digital Assurance Service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

Geographic Reference

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

Closing Date: 27 September 2026