Digital Project Manager

NEP cloud; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a Digital Project Manager to run digital projects on behalf of the Project Board, ensuring workstreams align with board constraints and programme objectives.

The role requires planning, resourcing and deployment, with interface to clinical systems, using recognised tools like PRINCE2 to deliver on time and within budget. It supports business case benefits and strategic aims.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience of managing staff and multiple complex projects in Health Informatics.

Responsibilities

• Produce and revise Detailed Implementation Plans covering project timeframes and go-live planning.
• Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively.
• Plan and allocate resources to projects across departments and organisations.
• Critically evaluate the quality of project plans and organisational capability to achieve outcomes.
• Manage dependencies and interfaces between programmes/projects.
• Monitor progress day-to-day and take corrective action, including escalation.
• Identify and mitigate project risks with a comprehensive risk log.
• Manage identified issues within project risks with owners and action plans.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strong communication

Risk management

Change management

Multitasking under pressure

Cross-organisational collaboration

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

PRINCE2

Project management software

Job description

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.

Job overview

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 requirementsof 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Internal
• Deputy Directors of Operations (DDOPs)
• Divisional and Clinical Directors
• Directorate Managers
• Clinical and Administrative staff.
• Head of ICT Developments Departments; Information Governance, Information Communications Technology, Information Management. Finance Department
• External
• System suppliers
• Local and National Healthcare institutions, NHS and non NHS.
• Non Healthcare organisations

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Educated to degree level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• 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
• 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

SKILLS AND ABILITY

• 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
• Project Management accreditation

Dear Potential Applicant,

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

• 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.
• 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.

This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post

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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.

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