Digital Health Consultant, Manager-Senior Manager

EY
Belfast
2 days ago
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Digital Health Consultant, Manager-Senior Manager

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

The opportunity

EY is seeking a motivated and talented Digital Health Consultant to join our growing Digital Health Practice. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects with our public and private health clients across the UK and Ireland. The successful candidate will work directly with clients to understand their business needs, assist in the design of digitally enabled health and care services.

With a strong focus on technology delivery, the consultant will play a pivotal role in integrating innovative digital solutions that enhance patient outcomes and streamline care delivery processes. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and deploy cutting-edge technologies, ensuring that solutions are not only effective but also sustainable and scalable. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of healthcare knowledge and strong technical expertise, enabling them to bridge the gap between clinical requirements and technical capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assist in the pursuit, design, and delivery of digital health projects.
  • Support business development pursuits to drive growth in the Digital Health Practice.
  • Collaborate with clinical and technical clients to understand their business needs and assist in the design and delivery of digitally enabled services.
  • Collaborate with on-, near- and off-shore technical teams, vendors and external partners, including technical and administrative tasks.
  • Contribute to the successful delivery of complex initiatives and help maintain strong relationships with EY’s clients.
  • Participate in the development and implementation of interoperable solutions and electronic health record systems.

Skills and Attributes for Success

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Basic understanding of clinical and technical client needs.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject, such as Computer Science, Health Informatics, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 2-3 years of professional services working experience, preferably in a healthcare context.
  • Good understanding of healthcare standards (such as HL7 FHIR, openEHR, IHE, SNOMED, etc.). Ideally, you’ll also have experience of working with electronic health record systems.
  • Familiarity with the UK and Ireland healthcare system landscapes and reference architectures is a plus.

Skills and Competencies:

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Basic understanding of clinical and technical client needs.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
  • We particularly welcome candidates who are fluent in a second European language, such as German, French, or Spanish.

What we look for

We’re interested in candidates with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes.

What we offer

  • Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
  • Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
  • Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
  • Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

Apply now.

Please note;

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusivenesshere . We ask because it matters!

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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