Digital Project Manager | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Brighton; On-site; AUD 91,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage Employer

Flexible working options

Job summary

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Digital Project Manager to deliver two key digital programmes, including a unified data model across SCFT systems and the Wayfinder integration for the NHS App.

The role requires AgilePM qualification and Prince2 experience, with strong stakeholder engagement and a track record of delivering projects on time and to budget. Flexible working options and a supportive environment are highlighted.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering complex digital programmes.
• AgilePM qualification; Prince2 experience preferred.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Assess the strategic intention, expected outcomes and critical success factors of the data model and Wayfinder projects.
• Identify, track and ensure project benefits are realised and reported.
• Devise detailed programme and project plans, set up workstreams and manage inter-workstream dependencies.
• Supervise staff development and performance, ensuring personal development plans are in place.
• Take action on performance and attendance matters and support staff health and wellbeing.
• Lead team development by clearly describing roles and work plans.

Skills

AgilePM

Prince2

Job description

Digital Project Manager | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

The Digital Project Manager will be responsible for supporting the delivery of two key technical programmes and projects, the implementation of a new unified data model across all SCFT systems and the SCFT Wayfinder integration project to support the implementation of the NHS App, ensuring that they are delivered on time, to budget and to an agreed quality that meet business needs.

Qualified with AgilePM and preferably experienced with using Prince2 methodology, the applicant will be able to evidence a wealth of project management experience and be able to join the team hitting the ground running. The role requires effective engagement with staff at all levels to identify and facilitate changes required such as role and business process redesign.

• a) Assess the strategic intention, expected outcomes and critical success factors of the data model and Wayfinder projects.
• b) Identify, track and ensure the project benefits are realised. Implement the relevant approach, tools and processes to ensure benefits are suitability, monitored, reported and realised.
• c) Devise detailed programme and project plans, identifying key timescales, milestones and resources. Set up and manage individual workstreams that will contribute to the overall success of programmes and projects. Analyse dependences across workstreams and ensure these are addressed within individual project plans.
• d) Undertake supervision and appraisals. Ensure all staff have personal development plans, opportunities for personal development and are encouraged to develop their careers in a way that is appropriate to their skills and aptitudes.
• e) Take prompt and proportionate action in cases where performance, conductor attendance fall below acceptable standards. The postholder has a duty of care to ensure that employees are appropriately supported in relation health and other personal factors that may contribute to problems.
• f) The postholder has authority to hear stage 1 grievances, investigate disciplinary issues and present a management case to a disciplinary panel.
• g) Develop an effective team by ensuring job roles and work plans are clearly described and understood by all team members.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

• a) Establish project boards to monitor progress and individual project teams to take workstreams forward. Brief the project board and project teams on the Executive Team’s expectations.
• b) Ensure arrangements are in place for regular project board and project team meetings; co-ordinate the collation, review and monitoring of progress against project plans.
• c) Support Trust staff in developing project proposals and business cases, defining project and programme benefits, and monitoring and implementing projects within a structured framework. Work with the Senior Informatics leads to develop a comprehensive project management support service.
• d) Maintain up to date knowledge of good practice in programme and project management. Work with Digital leads to identify developments of relevance to Digital programmes portfolio and ensure these are implemented.
• e) Develop and implement policies, procedures and guidance to ensure the effective planning and implementation of individual programmes and/or workstreams. These can range in scope from those that impact on individual services to those that have Trust-wide relevance.
• f) Identify and assess risks to the achievement of intended outcomes of individual work programmes. Work with Digital & Data Leads to put plans in place to manage and mitigate those risks. Ensure risks and action plans are entered into the relevant risks registers.
• g) Keep up to date with developments in local and National Health Service policy and changes to relevant legislation.
• h) Act as a role model for project managers and other colleagues actively engaged in progressing work stream project plans. Provide guidance and advice on good practice in project management.
• i) Benchmark the Trust’s programme and project management practices and processes against other healthcare providers.

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026