Product Manager

NHS; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Cardiff seeks a Product Manager to oversee key clinical applications at the Velindre Cancer Centre. You will lead a multidisciplinary team using Agile principles to manage products through their lifecycle while engaging with stakeholders to gather requirements. Ideal candidates will demonstrate a postgraduate qualification in digital/IT or healthcare and experience in supervising a digital team, with strong leadership and communication skills. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification or equivalent relevant experience, preferably within a digital/IT subject and/or healthcare.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• In-depth understanding of the product needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team for specified products.
• Manage the product lifecycle including discovery, alpha, beta, and live states.
• Develop and maintain the high-level road map.

Skills

Communication with senior staff

Change management

Analytical skills

Leadership in multi-disciplinary environments

Ability to work under pressure

Welsh Speaker (Level 1)

Education

Postgraduate qualification in digital/IT or healthcare

ITIL Foundation

ITIL Specialist

Job description

The Digital Services team at Velindre University NHS Trust is continuing its transition to a new methodology for managing digital systems and services, based around Product Teams and the Agile methodology. Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC) is a specialist tertiary provider of radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments, offering a vital lifeline to the patients of Wales. As part of its move to establish Product Teams to oversee the management of key VCC IT services, Velindre University NHS Trust Digital Services team have a vacancy for a Product Manager who will lead a small, multidisciplinary team responsible for managing key clinical applications, including the Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP) and the Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR). These applications are vital to supporting the delivery of safe and effective patient care

This role represents a significant opportunity to shape how clinical applications are managed using Agile principles and Product Team structures. We are seeking a dynamic individual who will champion these ways of working, serving as a role model as similar positions are established across other digital systems and services within the Trust. As a key liaison between clinical staff, stakeholders, and the Digital Services team, you will be an effective communicator, a strong negotiator, and a compassionate leader.

Main duties of the job

A Product Manager will lead a multi-disciplinary team for one of the specified products within the Digital Services portfolio. At this role level, you will:

• Lead the Product Team, taking overall responsibility for the quality and success of your product
• Manage a product through its full lifecycle, including discovery, alpha, beta and live states
• Be the primary point of contact within the organisation for your product, engaging with relevant stakeholders to gather and confirm requirements
• Develop and maintain the high-level road map for your products
• Line manage and support the professional development of other members of the Product Team, creating synergy between the Digital Services teams
• Be as passionate about developing people as you are about managing products

About us

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edgeVelindre Cancer Centre and our award-winningWelsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host theNHS Wales Shared Services Partnership andHealth Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification or equivalent relevant experience, preferably within a digital / IT subject and/or healthcare subject area
• Evidence of continuous professional development through their career
• ITIL Foundation
• ITIL Specialist
• In depth understanding of the product needs of Velindre University NHS Trust and its Divisions

Experience

• Successful implementation of digital-focused business change and improvements
• Experience in supervising a multidisciplinary team of digital staff
• Understanding of NHS / Healthcare digital requirements
• Excellent understanding of translating business / functional requirements into specialist technical specifications and complex Digital systems
• Experience in taking a lead role in product development
• Experience of working in an NHS / Healthcare or Public Sector environment

Skills

• Able to communicate with staff up to a senior level on complex business or clinical processes
• Collaborate with other Product Managers, to share best practice, lessons learned etc
• Able to organise and manage own work effectively, whilst ensuring the same organisation is applied to the team
• Implement change management methodology within the team>
• Able to analyse and resolve complex issues
• High quality written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage under pressure
• Ability to work under own initiative, whilst providing effective leadership both directly to own staff and to groups whilst being an effective member of a multi-disciplinary environment
• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards

Other

• Demonstrable alignment to Trust Values
• Able to work flexibly

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.