Job summary
- Main area
- Project Management
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Until 31st August 2026)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 083-7334919-WW
- Employer
- Sirona care & health CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sirona Headquarters
- Town
- Yate
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Project Manager
Band 7
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Job overview
We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team to lead the Dr Doctor programme at Sirona care & health
Dr Doctor is a top priority for business plan delivery ambitions for a single digital patient engagement platform. This includes,
· Developing a digital method for collecting EDI/AIS information
· Implementing a method for digitally capturing PROMS data
· Increasing Friends and Family Test response rates
· Digitally validating waiting lists to comply with NHSE requirements
· Providing information to families on the Children’s Autism waiting list
· Procuring a texting platform for appointment reminders
The ideal candidate would be an experienced project manager, working to the dedicated Digital Programme Manager holding a passion for service improvement whilst also able to work under their own initiative and as part of a team to deliver ambitious objectives.
This is a 12-month fixed term role in the Dr Doctor transformation programme team but sitting within Sirona’s Programme Management Office. The postholder will work as part of a comprehensive programme team and key stakeholders to deliver an ambitious programme of transformation for Sirona. The role must advocate a clear project management approach involving all key stakeholders and support the development of a transformational future state. The role will work closely with a wide range of clinical, operational, and staff and managers across Sirona.
Main duties of the job
The project manager will be expected to:
- Work closely with stakeholders at all levels to design, deliver the ambitions of the Dr Doctor programme.
- Support and manage the project/s actions to ensure swift operational delivery of specific actions across the programme.
- Ensure plans are developed and progressed with clear deliverables.
- Support the Dr Doctor Digital Programme Manager and Director to make comprehensive recommendations on any substantial challenges and where required managed change requests.
- Support and encourage the use of change methodologies including the use of small scalable pilots or test and learn projects.
- Engage widely with stakeholders, encouraging co-production and engagement.
- Support the development of benefits identification and tracking
- Identify interdependencies and encourage join up of work where appropriate
- Promote the empowerment of patients and carers, prevention, patient activation and behaviour change, digital and innovation in system redesign
The successful candidate will work with the Dr Doctor Digital Programme Manager and Head of Programme Management as a senior manager in ensuring that the work of the PMO function contributes effectively to the needs of the organisation and system, promoting an open, honest, and collaborative approach, ensuring programme and project delivery contributes to strategic planning and strategic objectives of Sirona and the system.
Working for our organisation
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for referencing the specific main responsibilities of this post.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent or commensurate level of experience
- Qualification in programme/project and/or change management/transformation or willingness to work towards this
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing complex projects
- Knowledge of local, national, strategic and operational policy developments and an awareness of their implications.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Project and Programme Management techniques with evidence of continuing professional development gained through qualifications or equivalent experience or training
- Ability to demonstrate previous experience of leading successful projects and programmes
- Ability to make decisions when required and/or know when to escalate difficult issues working to tight and often changing timescales
- Able to deliver improvements in clinical and / non-clinical environments
Desirable criteria
- To be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to managers with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
- Ability to make decisions when required and/or know when to escalate difficult issues working to tight and often changing timescales
- Able to prioritise and manage own workload with minimum supervision
- Ability to lead and facilitate collaborative working across organisational boundaries.
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
- Gary Hancox
- Job title
- Head of Programme Management Office
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07866 896128
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