Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Transformation
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0519
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Magnitude House, Aylesford / Hybrid working
- Town
- Aylesford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/06/2024
Employer heading
Digital Project Manager
Band 7
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
The Trust has an ambitious 3-year strategy which is supported by the delivery of new digital enablers focused on the availability of data to inform decision-making, enhancing IT to free up staff time, and the delivery of new tools to support personalised care.
Digital Project Managers are at the heart of the delivery of the strategic enablers which cover a broad range of exciting projects, focusing on both clinicians and patients to improve efficiency within the Trust and increase patient choice.
No agencies please
If you are an experienced Project Manager who enjoys hard work and delivering projects that can make a difference then we’d like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As a Digital Project Manager, you will facilitate resources to deliver transformational digital projects. You will use best-practice PRINCE2 methodology, with a strong focus on change and benefits management.
You will use your strong interpersonal skills to matrix-manage teams and suppliers, collaboratively planning work and ensuring activities are completed.
You will ensure excellent end-to-end management of your projects in line with Digital Services’ agreed Project Delivery Approach, ensuring solutions are effective and fit for purpose, project objectives are achieved, and capabilities and benefits are realised. This will include ensuring documentation is up to date, reporting is completed, proactive communications are undertaken, risks and issues are identified and mitigated, and benefits are tracked.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience/qualifications
- PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Management qualification or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Training or good knowledge of Microsoft Project
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant project management experience in complex transformational projects
- Experience of developing and maintaining standard project documentation
- Experience of matrix-managing project teams
- Experience of building relationships with stakeholders, successful collaborative and partnership working at a high level
- Experience of financial management/understanding
Desirable criteria
- Relevant mental healthcare project management experience at various levels
- Relevant digital project management experience
- Applying benefits realisation experience to determine project success
- Experience of third party / supplier engagement
- Experience in improving the digital maturity of clinical services
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Confidence, enthusiasm and commitment to apply project objectives and required outcomes when implementing solutions / digital enablers that are fit for purpose and take ownership to resolve problems
- Self-motivation and team player skills
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written; able to communicate effectively with diverse users
- Project reporting and knowledge of project governance skills
- Risk and Issue management and resolution skills
- Excellent leadership skills; ability to drive teams to deliver activities on time, budget and agreed tolerances
- Ability to work to deadlines and act under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload for self and others
- Ability to show and work on own initiative
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications
- Ability to travel where required
Desirable criteria
- Customer service awareness and commitment to delivering
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maria Pitan
- Job title
- Senior Digital Project Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01227 533179
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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