The Joint Digital Policy Unit works across DHSC and NHSE to drive the digitally-and data-enabled transformation of health and social care, and the Secretary of State’s digital reform priorities. It sits as part of the wider NHS Transformation Directorate which brings together the former functions of NHSX, along with NHS Digital.
Our mission is to digitise, connect and transform the health and social care system. This means ensuring core digital capabilities are rolled out across the system – including digitised patient records and cyber security standards; connecting up our systems so that data can be safely shared to improve health and social care outcomes – for example, developing a Federated Data Platform and Secure Data Environments; and transforming models of care for patients, service users and the public – for example, developing the NHS App to act as the front door for the NHS, using technology to support care in the home; and creating the right environment for the adoption of innovation.
Joint Digital Policy Unit consists of:
Cyber Security Policy, Compliance and Programme: responsible for setting strategy, standards and policy on cyber across health and social care.
Digital Policy & Programmes: responsible for priority digital policy, strategy and programmes including: AI, data and digital technology policy, social care digitisation,
DHSC Digital, Data & Technology central team.
Job Role
The Deputy Director – Tech Policy, Implementation and Data Analytics sits in Digital Policy and Programmes directorate.
This division is at the heart of developing and implementing policy, enabling teams to drive forward DPU’s key priorities. It responds to
emerging priorities in health technology - picking up often urgent cross-cutting projects,msupporting the implementation of wider programmes, building policy capability across the NHSE’s Transformation Directorate, and carrying out key departmental functions on behalf of DHSC.
The division is at the heart of developing and implementing policy, enabling teams to drive forward DPU’s key priorities.
This is an exciting post, supporting government to delivery on its health objectives by digitally transforming the NHS. We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic policy professional to lead the Tech Policy division of around 18 people.
Key Responsibilities
As Deputy Director – Tech Policy, Implementation and Data Analytics your key responsibilities will include:
- leading policy of several of the key delivery programmes in the Transformation Directorate, including electronic patient records, leading the division to provide expert policy input and engaging with Ministers;
- engaging with policy teams across the Department and NHSE to ensure that digital health is considered as a key enabler to their strategies and policy delivery, e.g. feeding into the 10-year plan for health and the SR;
- engaging internationally, both bilaterally and via the Global Digital Health Partnership and other multilateral fora, to learn from and work collaboratively with other countries;
- the DPU’s Implementation Unit, an internal consultancy service within the Directorate. It provides policy and implementation expertise to solve and support work on health and social care’s biggest digital and transformation challenges;
- the DPU’s internal data and analytics team – a small team comprising analysts and data scientists.
You will also, of course, play your role in leading the wider DPU as part of a cadre of around 10 other DDs and Band 9s.