London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Head of Digital Architecture
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The London Ambulance Service (LAS) Digital Architecture Role
The London Ambulance Service (LAS) depends on highly available, reliable, sustainable, cost-effective digital services to support the delivery of urgent and emergency care. To ensure that digital & data services are appropriately evaluated and designed to support LAS in providing an excellent digital experience for our staff and outstanding care for our patients.
Role Overview
Working within the Digital & Data Directorate as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Head of Architecture is the principal expert specialist and owner of the Digital Architecture Department. Accountable for ensuring that the technology design and roadmaps for digital and data services and standards developed across the Trust are mapped to and enable the Trust strategy, business needs, and long-term plan. Along with ownership of definition and development of Digital Architectural delivery capability resources, processes, standards, and tools.
The role is critical to the Trust to ensure digital alignment with Trust strategic goals, standardization of products and services, governance, and compliance with architecture processes and principles.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide appropriate leadership and governance of Digital Architecture services, policies, mandates, processes, procedures, and reports and the operation of the Architecture Review Board.
- Identify the Trust’s current business and technology architectures and develop joined-up target architectures and long-term technology roadmaps for all business areas of the Trust to achieve the digital transformation required to realize the Trust’s future vision.
- Design information, software, and infrastructure systems and services across all LAS functions using standardized principles so that they support the roadmaps and are appropriately available, resilient, and secure.
- Collate and provide structured design and architectural information to help manage and change the digital environment and information the Trust uses.
- Ensure business requirements are reviewed, interpreted, and responded to, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and future digital capabilities.
- Improve and monitor Architecture services against a recognized Architecture Maturity Model and Standards.
- Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to staff and managers in and outside Digital & Data.
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Our Strategy 2023-2028
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centered upon three missions focused on:
- Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led, and highly skilled organization people are proud to work for.
- Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions, we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organization, with our partners, and with our patients, and we have analyzed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Paul Schack
- Job Title: Director of Digital Services
- Email Address: paul.schack@nhs.net
Please note: We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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