Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Project Manager
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 423-6185897
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- keighley
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/04/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Project Manager (Band 6)
NHS AFC: Band 6
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
The Digital Project Manager will work with the Senior Digital Project Manager and other Project Managers within the programme taking responsibility for establishing project-wide plans which embrace key milestones and critical path events.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will also establish robust processes to enable the monitoring of progress, reporting any deviations from plan, the impact on the overall programme and potential mitigating actions to the Senior Digital Project Manager, Programme Lead and the Programme Team.
Working for our organisation
The IT / Digital Services department at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for the delivery of information systems and services to the whole organisation to support clinical and business integration. It leads in the development of IT strategy and directing all delivery programmes and services. IT provides a range of critical IT services many of which are running 24 - 7. It is also responsible for ensuring that IT Governance is executed effectively in order that the Trust complies with its information obligations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will produce, manage and process all the formal documentation for each stage of the project(s). The role will also include the co-ordination, day-to-day management and delivery of these defined, complex projects within the programme. Projects will need to be delivered within budget and to agreed time scales. Individual projects may span one or more localities.
Hybrid working is available with onsite activities and team days taking place at the Digital team’s base. The post holder will also be required to attend sites across Yorkshire to deliver digital projects.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to relevant degree level in business or IT or equivalent experience.
- PRINCE2 (Foundation level) or other equivalent project management qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Programme management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of successfully managing projects within a programme management system including evidence of change management within timeframes and budget
- Experience of engaging with multi-disciplinary teams and achieving successful outcomes
- Experience of a project management role within a customer focused organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience within an NHS environment
- Experience of implementing changes to working methods and evaluating effectiveness
- Experience of working within a digital environment.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of Corporate Governance in an NHS setting either directly or by working in partnership with the NHS
- Knowledge of best practice risk and issue management, and experience of appropriate application
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Business Intelligence related data collection projects, preferably within the NHS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working partnerships with professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and in other agencies.
- Able to analyse problems, situations and information
- Ability to prioritise tasks, work on own initiative and manage own workload
- Organisational and planning skills
- Effective negotiating, convincing and influencing skills
- Evidenced experience of communicating complex issues to a range of people in an appropriate format
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Applications including Power Point, Excel and MS Project or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Reed
- Job title
- Senior Digital Project Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07359217946
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