Senior Project Manager (Digital Infrastructure)

Transformation Unit; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced project manager to lead digital transformation programmes. You will report to the Head of Digital PMO and drive delivery from initial planning through to benefits realisation, working with clinical, operational and digital colleagues across organisational boundaries.

You will manage budgets, risks and governance while ensuring investment translates into measurable clinical, workforce and financial benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering complex digital projects across large organisations.
• Knowledge of PRINCE2 and/or MSP frameworks and governance.
• Ability to manage budgets, dependencies, risks and benefit realisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex digital programmes from planning through implementation and handover to BAU.
• Collaborate with clinical, operational and digital colleagues across boundaries to deliver measurable benefits.
• Navigate competing priorities, engaging stakeholders up to executive level to secure decisions and funding.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Programme management

Job description

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trust Headquarters, 18 Mole Business Park, Town Leatherhead Salary £59,798 - £67,020 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/11/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

Are you an experienced project manager with a passion for delivering digital change that improves care? Join Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and play a key role in delivering digital transformation that makes a difference to people who use our services and the teams supporting them.

Reporting to the Head of Digital PMO, you will lead complex digital programmes and projects from initial planning through to implementation, benefits realisation and handover to business as usual. This includes our SystmOne electronic patient record optimisation programme, working closely with clinical, operational and digital colleagues across organisational boundaries.

You will bring strong project management, stakeholder engagement and leadership skills, with experience of managing budgets, risks, dependencies and governance. Crucially, you will ensure digital investment translates into measurable clinical, operational, workforce and financial benefits.

We are looking for a proactive, collaborative and adaptable individual who can build effective relationships, navigate competing priorities and maintain a clear focus on delivery. The role requires travel across the Trust, including on-site attendance at least once a month and for workshops as required.

Main duties of the job

Suitable for someone who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and proactive to improve the carewe deliver to people who use our services. Suitable for someone who has experienceofmanaging digital projects in a complex organisation, working across organisationalboundaries to ensure patient (customer), staff, quality, financial and efficiency benefits are
defined and delivered. Suitable for someone who is effective in leading and working withproject teams working across organisational and professional boundaries with a proventrack record of delivering objectives on time and within budget. Suitable for someone with
adaptability/ flexibility to work in a changing environment. Someone who can be a goodteam player and lead who is able to interact effectively to build and sustain effectiverelationships with clinicians and a multi-professional workforce.

Suitable for someone who has the technical credibility to work effectively with network, server, cyber security and endpoint specialists, and who can translate technical delivery into clear messages for senior managers and clinicians.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job description attached on TRAC for details on the main responsibilities of this role.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of managing complex digital project(s)
• Experience of using programme and project management approaches such as PRINCE2 and/ or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
• Specialist knowledge of project management standards and principles and the ability to apply and explain them in non-routine situations to senior managers and clinicians
• Experience of managing budgets or finances associated with a Programme/Project/ Team
• Experience of analysing, interpreting, and presenting data
• Experience of producing project/ programme status and update reports
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams at varying levels of seniority and a commitment to partnership working
• Experience of managing stakeholders up to and including Executive level, sometimes with strong competing views, to build and gain consensus to enable decisions to be progressed to boards for approval
• Experience of developing, tracking and managing both risks and issues within projects
• Experience of developing benefits profiles and managing programme and project benefits through the project lifecycle
• Experience of business process improvement
• Establishing, preparing for, running programme and project boards
• Experience of managing complex digital infrastructure project(s), such as networking, server and hosting, cyber security or client endpoint programmes
• Experience of delivering technical infrastructure projects (for example network, data centre or cloud hosting, cyber security or end‑user device) working closely with technical architects and engineers.
• Understanding of cyber security principles and of information security accreditation and assurance frameworks (for example Cyber Essentials Plus, Data Security and Protection Toolkit, ISO 27001).

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.