Project Manager - Digital Transformation

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Tewkesbury is looking for a project manager to oversee the delivery of digital transformation projects. This full-time role involves collaborating with clinical and operational teams to enhance care pathways. The ideal candidate should possess strong project management capabilities, excellent communication skills, and experience in delivering digital solutions. This position offers an opportunity to contribute significantly to improving healthcare services while working within a dedicated team.

Qualifications

• Experience managing digital projects in a healthcare setting.
• Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.
• Ability to plan and implement new ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Deliver digital system optimisations to improve service performance.
• Monitor project risks and ensure compliance with governance.
• Manage budgets according to financial instructions.

Job description

Role Overview

1x fixed term contract for up to 12 months – full time hours: 37.5 per week.

Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment.

Management of the delivery of Transforming Care Digitally projects working with clinical, operational, clinical system and digital teams to improve care pathways across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Responsibilities

• To deliver Digital system and service optimisations to support service improvements in line with local strategies and government initiatives which will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.
• To support performance improvements across the organisation as required.
• To formulate, develop and adjust project plans and strategies to be delivered via FBC and PID.
• To plan and organise a broad range of complex activities using best practice project management tools and techniques.
• To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; agreement or co-operation required; present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to groups.
• To plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning.
• To work collaboratively with operational service staff to ensure their involvement in the development of services.
• To monitor all aspects of project and business development and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken and acted upon.
• To ensure that workforce development issues are considered and managed within the business and project development.
• To ensure that Business As Usual (BAU) Transition, Information Governance and Cyber documentation and agreements are in place prior to go live.
• To effectively and efficiently manage budgets in accordance with standing financial instructions.
• To analyse facts or situations and develop options and mitigations for consideration.
• To be responsible for ensuring the identification, delivery and monitoring including transition to BAU of project Benefits.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.