Technical Architect & Project Manager

Location:

Flexible / Birmingham for team meetings

Time commitment:
37.5 hours per week

Duration:12-month Fixed Term Contract – with option to extend by mutual agreement

Reporting to:

Head of Programme Management, Health & Care

Location:

Flexible / Birmingham for team meetings

Time commitment:
37.5 hours per week

Duration:12-month Fixed Term Contract – with option to extend by mutual agreement

Reporting to:

Head of Programme Management, Health & Care

WM5G is looking for a capable and committed Technical Architect & Project Manager to manage the successful build and delivery of WM5G’s technical roadmap for our Health and Care propositions. This will start with the sourcing and implementation of asset and workflow management capabilities and then quickly evolve to deliver the first phase of our AI & automation roadmap for our Digital Discharge proposition.

This is an exciting opportunity for a driven self-starter to manage the delivery of innovate technology capabilities in a fast-moving purpose-led public sector scale-up business.

WM5G was founded seven years ago as the UK’s largest connected solutions innovation company. The company is a subsidiary of the WMCA and is governed by an independent board and subject to usual audits and company accounts.

Since then we’ve worked in partnership to attract over £300 million of private sector investment in fibre and 5G to make the West Midlands the best connected region. In addition we’ve lead the design, delivery and benefit realisation of breakthrough connected solutions in key sectors – including and especially the health & care sector – comprising connectivity, internet of things (IoT), data & AI technologies and associated people, process and operating model transformation.

Over the last 5 years we’ve been working in partnership with the NHS and Local Authorities in the West Midlands to start to scale innovative technology solutions that to accelerate the diagnosis of bowel cancer, help patients to be discharged from hospital safely and support citizens to live independently at home for longer (reducing pressure on adult social care + hospitals).

In terms of discharge, today around 15% of hospital beds in the NHS are occupied by patients who are medically fit to be discharged but can’t be – often because there isn’t the care support available for them to do so. As well as costing the NHS ~£2.5 billion a-year in lost bed days/capacity these ‘delayed discharges’ reduce the NHS ability to reduce hospital waiting lists because treatment can only begin if a bed is available.

To help our NHS partners address this, WM5G offers an innovative Digital Discharge Service (DDS) to help clinicians discharge medically-fit patients to recover successfully at home and free‑up beds for other patients. Our DDS solution comprises a wide range of IoT devices that can be tailored for patients (incl. smart watches, motion sensors, bed pressure sensors, managed tablets and many others), 24/7 monitoring via a clinical-grade centre and a wide variety of in-person visits and support, depending on the patients’ need.

DDS is live in two NHS Trusts, with the third Trust about to go live, and we are in conversations with Government about accelerating the scaling‑up of the service across two regions. We’ve proven impressive results so far and there is a strong business case for scaling‑up the service to help the Government hit its number 1 KPI for the NHS – reducing hospital waiting lists.

However in order for us to scale DDS, we urgently need to implement, run & operate asset & workflow management and other automation and AI capabilities – to enable us to scale DDS effectively and efficiently. Hence we’ve spent the last 3-4 months developing our technology roadmap and now need a capable Technical Architect and Project Manager to join us and manage delivery.

The Technical Architect and Project Manager will be responsible for managing the implementation of WM5G’s technical roadmap – focussing on DDS – to ensure that WM5G successfully puts in place the technical capabilities required to scale DDS effectively and efficiently from supporting hundreds of patients to tens…