Job summary
Digital Health and Care Wales has set an ambitious objective to provide world leading digital services, empowering people to live healthier lives. This role is all about helping to shape the organisation's plans through the use of the Microsoft 365 Power Platform suite including Power BI, to ensure we prioritise and deliver the key activities needed.
We are looking for a forward-thinking candidate with strong Power Platform / Power BI skills who also has good organisation, communication and planning skills to help shape the tooling needed to support and drive corporate planning and programme and project management.
This will include shaping and maintaining programme and project management tooling in Power Apps and building and configuring reporting dashboards using Power BI. The right candidate will also be responsible for identifying, planning and implementing improvements to our existing planning tooling working towards a seamless user experience and the ability to enable real time demand and capacity management organisation wide. There will also be opportunities to consider wider integration options across NHS Wales.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
If you have strong Power Platform / Power BI skills, great attention to detail and enjoy shaping new and existing IT solutions, then this job will stimulate you.
This post will report into the Principal Planning Manager and will have the opportunity to form close links with the NHS Wales Microsoft 365 Centre of Excellence to ensure best practice is maintained and knowledge and skills are kept up to date.
The Planning Power Platform Manager will:
- Work as a key member of the DHCW Planning Team to improve organisational tooling to support stakeholders in managing the creation and maintenance of the organisation's strategic and delivery plans. This includes enhancing and maintaining existing tooling within the Power Platform, Power BI and Microsoft 365 suite as well as playing a lead role in shaping and configuring new tooling to meet business needs.
- Working closely with the Principal Planning Manager and M365 Centre of Excellence to provide advice and guidance on a range of service improvements including providing expertise in relation to best practice use of the Power Platform suite to meet requirements and ensure longevity of solutions.
- Support the definition and delivery of Portfolio Management software to support Programme and Project Management. This will include the automation of reports and creation of reporting dashboards using Power BI.
About us
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
The skills needed are:
- Degree in Planning, Information or IT related subject or evidence of equivalent qualification or experience.
- Advanced relational database design with specialist knowledge in a common platform.
- Specialist knowledge in at least two of the following technical areas:
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- Power Apps
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- SharePoint
- Dataverse
- Significant experience of working in the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Proven experience in the analysis, design development and management of IT systems/applications.
- Excellent understanding and record of translating business/functional requirements into specialist technical specifications and complex operational IT systems/applications
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
The skills needed are:
- Degree in Planning, Information or IT related subject or evidence of equivalent qualification or experience.
- Advanced relational database design with specialist knowledge in a common platform.
- Specialist knowledge in at least two of the following technical areas:
-
- Power Apps
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- SharePoint
- Dataverse
- Significant experience of working in the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Proven experience in the analysis, design development and management of IT systems/applications.
- Excellent understanding and record of translating business/functional requirements into specialist technical specifications and complex operational IT systems/applications
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Degree in Planning, Information or IT related subject or evidence of equivalent qualification or experience.
- Advanced relational database design with specialist knowledge in a common platform.
- Specialist knowledge in at least two of the following technical areas: - Power BI - Power Apps - Power Automate - SharePoint - Dataverse
Desirable
- Power Platform Certification or equivalent experience
- Dynamics 365 Certification or equivalent experience
- Project management qualification
- Proven experience of working in IT support and experience of project management
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Proven experience in the analysis, design development and management of IT systems/applications.
- Proven record in the delivery and support of major IT systems/applications.
- Experience in supervising IT and Information Development and Support staff
- Excellent understanding and record of translating business/functional requirements into specialist technical specifications and complex operational IT systems/applications
- Demonstrate a track record of delivering successful projects/IT initiatives.
Desirable
- Experience of taking a lead role in system development.
- Experience of working in an NHS/Healthcare or Public Sector environment.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to communicate with staff up to a senior level on complex business processes.
- Ability to learn and assess new technologies quickly, understanding their wider implications and where appropriate implementing them.
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex IT issues.
- Write structured application code.
- Ability to establish good working relationships with people at all levels.
- Ability to work under own initiative, whilst providing effective leadership both directly to own staff and to groups whilst being an effective member of a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Ability to deliver and steer numerous projects through the complete cycle within agreed time scales.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Degree in Planning, Information or IT related subject or evidence of equivalent qualification or experience.
- Advanced relational database design with specialist knowledge in a common platform.
- Specialist knowledge in at least two of the following technical areas: - Power BI - Power Apps - Power Automate - SharePoint - Dataverse
Desirable
- Power Platform Certification or equivalent experience
- Dynamics 365 Certification or equivalent experience
- Project management qualification
- Proven experience of working in IT support and experience of project management
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Proven experience in the analysis, design development and management of IT systems/applications.
- Proven record in the delivery and support of major IT systems/applications.
- Experience in supervising IT and Information Development and Support staff
- Excellent understanding and record of translating business/functional requirements into specialist technical specifications and complex operational IT systems/applications
- Demonstrate a track record of delivering successful projects/IT initiatives.
Desirable
- Experience of taking a lead role in system development.
- Experience of working in an NHS/Healthcare or Public Sector environment.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to communicate with staff up to a senior level on complex business processes.
- Ability to learn and assess new technologies quickly, understanding their wider implications and where appropriate implementing them.
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex IT issues.
- Write structured application code.
- Ability to establish good working relationships with people at all levels.
- Ability to work under own initiative, whilst providing effective leadership both directly to own staff and to groups whilst being an effective member of a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Ability to deliver and steer numerous projects through the complete cycle within agreed time scales.
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.
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 the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
Additional information
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 the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
