Job Title: Director of Digital in the BSO Digtial Directorate
Location: BSO Headquarters, Franklin Street Belfast
Salary: Senior Executive Level 4 £101,776 to £132,282 (2024-25 payscales)
Reports to: The BSO Chief Executive
Closes: Monday 8th September 2025 at 12pm – Assessment Centre provisionally scheduled to take place on Monday 15th September 2025
Job Summary:
The new Director of Digital within BSO is an excellent opportunity for an inspirational leader with ambition and drive to manage the implementation of change internally within the organisation, and with partners locally, regionally and on an international scale. This can only be achieved through innovative leadership and purposeful collaboration with a wide range of partners and stakeholders and therefore the ability to establish and maintain such relationships will be essential. The Digital Directorate is comprised of the existing BSO Information Technology Services, the Office for Research Ethics Committees, the Honest Broker Service and the operational services delivered by the encompass programme as they continue to transition into live service.
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Learn more about BSO ITS Operations
Our Operational Services contains all customer facing services related to business and clinical systems, including but not limited to our Patient Administration System, our NI Electronic Health Care Record, the Laboratory Systems, our HRPTS and Finance systems. When a major project or programme is completed, the delivery of the service created within that project occurs within Operations. We utilise an IT Service Management toolset to track all incidents, service requests, and changes related to these services and to report back to our customers on the successful delivery against our Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).
Learn more about some of the activity the BSO Diretorate of Digital directly from the colleagues who make a difference in it. Gary Hill is a lead data engineer in BSO ITS Operations.
Learn more about BSO ITS Infrastructure
The Infrastructure Service area provides the platforms upon which operational delivery and transformation are possible. The regional data centres house more than 2500 virtual machines, and host over 300 individual applications. Our staff are responsible for supporting over 15000 client devices and providing remote access services for over 9000 HSC staff daily as well as supporting our internal hardware platform and externally hosted services. We manage the access of over 300 suppliers securely into HSCNI as they support trusts and arms-length bodies in delivering services. Across the region BSO provide the core security services used to protect our staff from cyber threats.
Learn more about some of the work done by the BSO Diretorate of Digital directly from the colleagues who make a difference in it. David Telford from BSO ITS Infrastructure.
Learn more about BSO Programmes and Projects
The CoreLIMS Programme in partnership with our Infrastructure colleagues and Supplier CliniSys have supported the Trusts journey to standardise the regional Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with the introduction to the WinPath Enterprise system. This has taken careful planning and collaboration to deliver IT health transformation that will future proof modern services in Cellular Pathology, Microbiology Services , Virology, Blood Transfusion, New-born Screening, Blood Sciences including pre-analytics, Biochemistry, Haematology, and Immunology. In just 3 short years since signing of the contract the new LIMS WinPath Enterprise system has went live in BHSCT and SEHSCT in November 2023, NIBTS in June 2024, and most recently the Regional Cervical Cytology Service and NHSCT in October 2024. The remaining 2 Trusts within WHSCT and SHSCT are also now live.
Learn more about some of the work done by the BSO Diretorate of Digital directly from the colleagues who make a difference in it. Niall O’Hagan – CoreLIMS Programme Manager
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BSO Pay Bands and Pay Bands in HSCNI
As part of a national framework of Terms and Conditions (known as ‘Agenda of Change’), the majority of HSC posts are ‘banded’ depending on the tasks required and level of responsibility across a number of core and specific dimensions. The page within this link details the pay ranges for each Band of post.
More about the equip programme
The equip programme is set to replace our HRPTS and FPL systems in 2026, with a simplified, single software solution.
BSO Staff Benefits
The Business Services Organisation (BSO) offers a range of benefits, schemes and development opportunities that staff can avail of.
Learn more about the BSO Digital Directorate
The delivery of digital services is a strategic part of the BSO service offering to HSC customers across Northern Ireland.
Learn more about the encompass programme
encompass is a Health and Social Care programme that has created a single digital care record for every citizen in Northern Ireland
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Join the BSO Digital Directorate – make a difference in your professional career. BSO ITS is responsible for the provision of a wide range of ICT services across the HSC, HSC regional Arms-Length bodies and Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS).
For information about other BSO Career Avenues go to: Jobs – Business Services Organisation (BSO) Website