Interim Head of IT

Are you an experienced IT leader who combines strategic thinking with hands-on delivery and wants to use your expertise to support a cause that truly matters? Join our ICT team and play a vital role behind the scenes - enabling our colleagues to deliver outstanding, compassionate care every day. As Interim Head of IT, you will lead our digital, information governance and ICT services for an initial six-month period. You will be responsible for maintaining business-critical systems, strengthening cyber security, ensuring compliance with data protection legislation, and progressing key digital improvement initiatives What you will do Providing strategic leadership on technology, cyber security, data governance and digital transformation. Ensuring stable and effective ICT operations and service delivery. Leading digital infrastructure, cloud services, networks and system improvements. Acting as the organisation's Information Governance Lead. Ensuring compliance with UK GDPR, Data Protection legislation and NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit requirements. Leading and developing the ICT team. Improving reporting, data governance and organisational use of information. Strengthening business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements. Producing recommendations and future plans to support long-term digital success.

• Significant experience in a senior ICT leadership, interim management or transformation role
• Proven success leading organisational change, digital transformation or service improvement programmes
• Strong experience managing cyber security, information governance and data protection compliance
• Experience operating within a regulated environment such as healthcare, charity or public sector organisations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience leading teams, managing budgets and influencing senior leaders
Additional role requirements
• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Full, current valid UK driving licence.
  
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ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Click 'Apply Now'…. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. Our commitment to Equality and Diversity At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture. If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. The Company The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country. The Company At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It's important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people. Employee benefits overview At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference. A summary of benefits is below