Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 435-1LSC-BTH-18.26
- Employer
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Project Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
The Digital Project Manager will specifically be working on a project regarding the development and implementation of the workforce data standards service. This service will be responsible for improving workforce data to support operational issues across the NHS at local, regional and national levels. It will lead the update to the national workforce dataset and contribute to the development of the workforce section of the canonical data model. The aim is to reduce the burden on NHS organisations by consolidating and minimising workforce data collection requirements wherever possible
Main duties of the job
The Digital Project Manager is responsible for, and has the authority to ensure the successful day-to-day running of Digital projects under their management on behalf of the relevant Programme / Project Boards. The Digital Project Manager is responsible that appropriate planning, resourcing, reporting and deployment activities are undertaken to ensure safe and timely implementation.
Working for our organisation
One LSC is a new collaborative partnership shared service formed by the five NHS Trusts serving the Lancashire and South Cumbria population of 1.8 million people. We are a shared service run by the NHS, for the NHS and are hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of the partner Trusts of the Lancashire and South Cumbria system.
One LSC stands for ‘One Lancashire and South Cumbria’ and reflects the Lancashire and South Cumbria System ambition to have one team serving Lancashire and South Cumbria in a joined-up way. It is jointly run by the five Trusts as a collaborative partnership.
Working as part of OneLSC, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHNHSFT) is committed to delivering patient and organisational benefits through the use of Information Technology. BTHNHSFT has a wide range of development and improvement projects planned, including the further roll out of the IMS Maxims Electronic Patient Record functionality as part of the Digital Level-Up Programme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Produce a Project Initiation Document (PID), Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) that covers the overall timeframe of the programme, with more detailed, sub-DIPs to address specific periods of key activities (e.g. go live planning).
- 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.
- Define and issue all work packages ensuring they are delivered in accordance within project timescales, cost, scope and quality.
- Critically evaluate the quality of project plans and the organisational capability and capacity to achieve the planned outcomes.
- Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between other programmes/projects.
- Monitor overall progress against the DIP on a day-to-day basis, resolving issues and initiating decisive and corrective action as appropriate.
- Identify and mitigate any project risks ensuring that the minimum number of risks become issues, to include the provision of a comprehensive Risk log.
- Provide direct support to the project / workstream leads and take immediate and decisive action where the project / workstreams are failing to meet key milestones or targeted levels of improvement.
- Ensure that the delivery of new products or services from the Trust’s chosen provider(s) meets the requirements of the clinical services, to the necessary standards of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
- Ensure that the various work streams complete tasks to the appropriate levels of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost, in accordance with the project plan and governance arrangements.
- Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively.
- Maintain a comprehensive performance and reporting framework with which to keep the Project Executive, Project Board fully appraised of progress against the project plan, including a summary of any key risks to delivery and actions taken to mitigate those risks.
- Understand the critical path of projects and the overall programme and make decisions regarding any necessary escalation to the Digital Programme Director.
- Confidently and accurately run budgets for allocated projects so that the overall Digital Programme budget function is successful. Within this the Project Manager will proactively monitor expenditure and costs against deployment plans.
- Manage the dialogue and negotiations, including financial and operational matters, between the Trust and third party suppliers as appropriate.
- Act as the primary contact between the Trust and its chosen providers for the implementation of Health Informatics projects.
- Provide expert advice to clinical and operational leaders regarding necessary changes to working practices as part of the implementation of Health Informatics projects.
- Provide expert advice to clinical and operational leaders regarding the suitability and viability of existing and proposed electronic clinical systems.
- Manage effective communication with all stakeholders.
- Proactively engage with staff at all levels and in all professional groups as appropriate, communicating complex and emotive ideas, negotiating and influencing the changes to deliver the identified benefits.
- Ensure that all complex technical information is translated appropriately and conveyed to work stream leads and clinical services in a non-technical, understandable manner.
- Act in an advisory role to key decision making forums, providing recommendations
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in an IT project management environment.
- Prince2 Practitioner or Agile qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- A demonstrable proven track record in the successful delivery of large scale and complex digital projects on time, to budget and within the defined scope and quality standards within a healthcare setting.
- In depth working knowledge of the NHS, including its use of digital workforce systems across all care settings.
- In depth working knowledge of current processes and ways of working and how digital solutions can be applied to a healthcare setting to ensure benefits can be realised.
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical and corporate governance and risk management systems and processes.
- Leading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation
- Experience of working with NHSE on Workforce Data Standards projects
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Proactive approach to solution delivery.
- Be self-motivated and organised and have an appreciation of current and emerging of digital technologies applied in a healthcare setting
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to liaise effectively with senior personnel and multi-disciplinary teams, in both the NHS and private sector
- A confident and skilled negotiator when dealing with third party suppliers of digital clinical systems
- Capable of delivering an array of competing priorities.
- The ability of operating across organisational boundaries, with the ability to empathise to differing needs of stakeholders.
- Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills, with ability to gain and maintain credibility at all levels of the organisation, including Executive Directors and senior clinicians.
- Highly effective presentation skills and the ability to present well-reasoned and structured argument, verbally and in writing.
- Highly developed analytical skills.
- 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
- Proficiency in the use of ICT applications to support efficient work activity including the analysis, interpretation and presentation of complex data. Proficient in the use of MS Project and MS Visio.
- Ability to manage priorities in order to meet specific deadlines
- Ability to hold direct and non-direct reports to account.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrew Temple
- Job title
- Digital Portfolio Lead - Systems & People
- Email address
- [email protected]
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