About the role
To lead on innovation and digital, technology-oriented strategy within Adult Social Care and integration across system partners.
The role involves working with council service areas, local communities, system partners, businesses, and other third-party organizations to build relationships and partnerships that foster innovation. The Innovation & Digital Transformation Manager will spearhead shared initiatives, horizon scan for new technologies, and understand how they might be applied to solve problems and improve efficiencies and experience for council staff and residents.
The role includes building and trialling new concepts, learning from both successes and failures, and applying those learnings to advance technology. Additionally, the Innovation and Digital Transformation Manager will drive technology initiatives within adult social care to improve outcomes for people and efficiencies.
What will you be doing?
- Champion innovation as a practice, integrating it into the wider DNA of North Northamptonshire Council.
- Line management responsibilities & oversight of the Assistive Technology team
- Engage with North Northamptonshire Council service areas to identify opportunities and understand priorities for innovation.
- Adopt open and collaborative problem-solving practices, working with third-party organizations such as universities, businesses, and community groups.
- Build outreach into the wider technical community, creating partnerships, consensus, shared knowledge bases, and relationships necessary for innovation to succeed.
- Foster an open, positive culture within the technology department, collaborating with IT and digital colleagues to explore new ideas and ways of working. Ensuring Adult Social Care needs are reflected in solutions.
- Collaborate with the Strategy & Architecture team to share knowledge of technology developments and help transition successful proof of concepts into fully realized business systems.
- Proactively horizon scan for new developments in technology, business models, and ways of working that could be applied to the council's challenges.
- Become a key player in the council's goal of being a leading Digital Authority by exemplifying how local government can run an innovation practice.
- Ensure governance is applied to innovation initiatives, guided by corporate priorities.
- Provide training and support on new digital tools and initiative
- Work closely with the IT and governance teams to ensure alignment and compliance with council policies and standards.
- Drive technology initiatives within Adult Social Care to improve outcomes for people and efficiencies.
- Demonstrate awareness and understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social, and welfare needs.
- Maximize personal productivity, minimize duplication and errors, and manage information efficiently and securely using Office 365 and internal IT systems.
- Actively challenge and seek to eliminate any discriminatory practices or behaviours.
- Ensure reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety, and welfare of yourself and others.
About you
Experience in conceptualizing and creating new services or business models, introducing new technologies, or embedding emerging practices, methods, and approaches.
Awareness and understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social, and welfare needs.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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