Job summary
- Main area
- Digital & Data Project Management
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 36 months (2 fixed term/secondment posts available, 1 x 12 months and 1 x 36 months, both limited due to funding)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC073-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Town
- Williamstown
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Project Manager
Band 5
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated Digital Assistant Project Manager to join the newly established Digital Transformation Team. As an integral part of the Digital & Data Directorate in CTM, the team have a rapidly expanding portfolio of challenging and interesting projects, including electronic prescribing and medicines administration, transforming patient contact services and several smaller projects supporting direct care.
Under the guidance of a Digital Transformation Project Manager and working closely with Project Team members, the successful candidate will be expected work collaboratively with operational and clinical colleagues and the wider digital team to improve the outcomes of our patients, citizens and families that we serve, as outlined in the Health Board’s strategy CTM 2030.
Candidates will be expected to have experience in projects using PRINCE 2 and understand project methodologies, tools and governance. Skills include; excellent communication and organisational skills.
As a proactive and positive member of the team, the post holder will play an important role in supporting the implementation of key transformation project objectives which will enable and support the vital work of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).
For more information, please contact Phil Walters, Digital Project Manager.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have to support and carry out a variety of project related activities, depending on the project needs. Those activities may cover, but not limited to, project support including; managing RAID logs, minute taking; business change and analysis, training and engagement, procurement and testing. They may also manage some of those work streams and/or small projects.
The post holder will have responsibilities across the whole of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and work within organisational and professional policies and procedures, possibly on multiple projects.
These posts are fixed term/secondments, one post for 12 months and one for 36 months due to funding. If you are interested in applying for it as a secondment, please obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of understanding and working with risk
- Good understanding of what a project is
- Experience of working in projects
- Exerience of IT applications preferably in a clinical setting
Desirable criteria
- Have a sound working knowledge of the NHS
Apptitude & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective, clear and concise oral and written communications skills
- Demonstrable Team Player
Desirable criteria
- Able to self-motivate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of writing and delivering presentations
- Writing minutes, notes and actions from meetings
Values
Essential criteria
- Personable and outgoing but also aware of other's boundaries and views
- Willing to listen and learn but also respectfully challenge established positions where it is reasonable to do so
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly to meet demands
- Able to travel throughout the UHB, or other locations, in a timely manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Phil Walters
- Job title
- Project Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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