Digital Project Manager

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Digital Project Manager to lead day-to-day digital projects and ensure timely, within-budget delivery aligned to the Trust's strategic objectives. You will plan, resource, and deploy activities across departments to integrate clinical systems and support business cases.

The role requires PRINCE2 experience and strong stakeholder engagement across NHS and external suppliers, with a focus on quality delivery and benefits realisation.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Project Management qualification at Practitioner Level e.g. PRINCE2.
• Experience managing multiple complex projects in a Health Informatics setting.
• Experience of NHS computing and dealing with clinical suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Produce and revise project documentation and detailed implementation plans.
• Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively.
• Plan and allocate resources across departments and organisations.
• Evaluate project plans for quality and organisational capability.
• Manage dependencies and interfaces between programmes/projects.
• Monitor progress and take corrective action, escalating as needed.
• Identify and mitigate risks with comprehensive risk logs.
• Manage issues with owners and action plans and logs.

Skills

PRINCE2

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Change management

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

The Digital Project Manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of Digital projects under their management on behalf of the relevant Project Board and within the constraints laid down by the board. The Digital Project Manager is responsible for the ensuring that appropriate planning, resourcing and deployment activities are undertaken to ensure safe and timely implementation of relevant projects within the Trust's Head of Digital Developments Programme to support the Trust's strategic objectives. This will include the management of projects that facilitate full interfacing/integration with existing clinical systems and/or the replacement of these systems where appropriate. The post holder will use recognised project management tools and techniques e.g. PRINCE2 to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to budget with expected outcomes monitored and achieved. The use of detailed implementation plans and other associated project products e.g. workstream checkpoint reports, risks and issues logs, will be required to aide this. The Project Manager's prime responsibility is to ensure that projects meet the requirements of the clinical services, to the necessary standards of quality, and within the specified constraints of time and cost. The Digital Project Manager is also responsible for the project achieving the benefits defined in the business case.Main duties of the job 1.Produce and revise all project documentation including Detailed Implementation Plans(DIP) that cover the overall timeframe of relevant projects within the programme;addressing specific periods of key activities (e.g. go live planning). 2.Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively. 3.Plan and allocate resources to projects, from both within and outside the project team.This will require cross-departmental working and negotiation across various departments and organisations. 4.Critically evaluate the quality of project plans and the organisational capability and capacity to achieve the planned outcomes. 5.Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between other programmes/projects. 6.Monitor overall progress of projects on a day-to-day basis, resolving issues and initiating decisive and corrective action, including escalation, as appropriate. 7.Identify and mitigate any project risks ensuring that the minimum number of risks become issues, to include the provision of a comprehensive Risk log. 8.Manage identified issues within the project risks ensuring that each issue has an owner and corrective action is being undertaken, to include the provision of a comprehensive issue log.

• Directorate ManagersClinical and Administrative staff.
• Project Managers
• Head of ICT Developments Departments; Information Governance, Information Communications Technology, Information Management. Finance Department
• Procurement Department
• External
• System suppliers
• Local and National Healthcare institutions, NHS and non NHS.
• Non Healthcare organisations
  Educated to degree level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience
• Project Management qualification at Practitioner Level e.g. PRINCE2, Experience of managing staff
• Experience in successfully managing multiple complex projects in a Health Informatics setting
• Experience of NHS computing
• Experience of dealing with clinical suppliers
• Desirable criteria
• Experience of managing teams within the software development lifecycle
• Experience of business process re-engineering and change management
• Experience of working across organisations and with other agencies
• Experience of budget management, Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to liaise effectively with senior personnel and multi-disciplinary teams, in both the NHS and private sector
• Is innovative and able to contribute to service development
• Self-motivated with the ability to work well under pressure and to deadlines
• Experience of using project management software to detail and track progress
• Experience of using risk management tools and techniques
• Ability to manage multiple projects to a successful conclusion
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities at any one time and be responsive and receptive to change
• Ability to understand, analyse and interpret complex business issues and facilitate a resolution
• Self-motivated, proactive and innovative with a 'can do' attitude
• Procedural knowledge of project management processes and associated documents and ensure best practice is adhered to, Years experience, Project Management accreditation
• At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
• Blackpool Victoria Hospital, or BVH, as it is known locally, is a medium sized NHS District General Hospital (DGH).
• The hospital comprises the major element of secondary health care within the wider combined acute and community trust that is the "Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". The "Victoria" site of the hospital has around 900 beds which provide care for Acute Medicine in its wider terms and DGH Surgical specialties, including among others, General Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Urology and Gynaecology. There is a Women and Children's Unit including both Consultant lead and Midwife lead maternity care.
• The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.
• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.
• Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.