Digital Transformation Project Manager

Integrated Care System; Dartford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Digital Project Manager to facilitate digital transformation within patient care services. The successful candidate will possess NHS experience, excellent communication skills, and be adept at managing projects and training initiatives. This role is hybrid, requiring time both in the office and with teams across various services.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of NHS practices.
• Experience of working within the NHS.
• Ability to manage tight deadlines and competing demands.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement changes, monitoring progress.
• Define governance arrangements for projects.
• Support and motivate clinical staff through changes.

Skills

NHS experience

Excellent verbal and written communication

Organisational skills

Planning skills

Education

Foundation or Practitioner PRINCE2 trained

Tools

NHS systems (e.g., RiO, eMeds)

Job description

Agile working (minimum of two days per week in the office)

Are you passionate about driving digital transformation within healthcare? We are seeking a confident, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Digital Project Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will help shape and improve services through transformation, training, and development initiatives.

Applicants should have a strong understanding of NHS practices and demonstrate the ability to embrace new ways of working. You will be skilled in identifying innovative uses of technology to enhance service delivery and improve the patient experience. We place great importance on teamwork, patient-centred design, and building effective working relationships.

This role provides project support for new ways of working and clinical systems such as Rio, Oxcare, eObs, eMeds, and emerging technologies including Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and voice-to-text solutions. You will support a wide range of staff groups including clinicians, nurses, and administrative teams. Working closely with the Senior Digital Project Manager, you will contribute to system redesign, process improvement, and training delivery--ensuring key milestones are met and risks are well managed.

Main duties of the job

Project Management:

• Developing and implementing the changes and proactively monitoringprogress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate
• Assisting with the definition of governance arrangements for specific projects
• Develop comprehensive project plans for each project
• Supporting third party contributions to each project, to include primary care and other external partners (e.g. Local Authority, Public Health, Third Sector, Commercial)
• Understanding dependencies and the interfaces between different projects and escalating issues to line manager
• Support the senior project manager to scope out change to clinical pathways to improve quality and productivity, defining policies, procedures and supporting documentation (eg process maps and guidelines) for proposed changes.
• Working with clinical staff, motivating and encouraging them to review their working practices and how they deliver services as a result of proposed changes
• Managing risks and issues to each projects successful outcome
• Escalating for management interventions wherever gaps identified or issues arise that need senior staff support
• Supporting and encouraging behavioural change to meet the Trusts aims and objectives

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Skills and Experience

• NHS experience and understanding of Primary, Secondary, and Community Care services.
• Excellent verbal, written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, capable of managing tight deadlines and competing demands.

Make a difference in healthcare by shaping the future of high-quality, digitally enabled patient care.

Person Specification

NHS Experience

• Experience of working within the NHS
• Experience using NHS systems (e.g., RiO, eMeds)

Qualifications

• Foundation or Practitioner PRINCE2 or alternative methodology trained.

Skills

• Good communication and relationship skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.