About this role
Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
Internal
Project Executives, including Executive Directors.
Programme Directors
Deputy Directors of Operations (DDOPs)
Divisional and Clinical Directors
Directorate ManagersClinical and Administrative staff.
Project Managers
Head of ICT Developments Departments; Information Governance, Information Communications Technology, Information Management. Finance Department
Procurement Department
ExternalSystem suppliersLocal and National Healthcare institutions, NHS and non NHS.Non Healthcare organisations
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS Essential
Educated to degree level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience Project Management qualification at Practitioner Level e.g. PRINCE2
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE Essential
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
Desirable
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 Essential
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 Expereince Essential
Years experience
Desirable
Project Management accreditation
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.
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Employer details Employer name East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Whinney Heys Road
Blackpool
FY3 8NR
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://jobs.elht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)