Senior Project Manager

Job summary

This is a fixed term/secondment post until 30/06/2025.

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and transformational Digital Team. The role requires a good understanding of implementing technology and project management in the health sector.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is looking to recruit an experienced Project Manager to deliver a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the Hywel Dda and Swansea Bay University Health Board Region. The project is part of a wider all Wales programme looking to deliver a single LIMS across Wales with the aim to modernise Pathology across Wales, whilst standardising and streamlining processes to improve quality standards and patient care.

This role will play a large part in ensuring the success of key deliverables within the project. Reporting directly to the Programme Manager you will work closely with key stakeholders, including Pathology Service, IT, Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) and Intersystems (LIMS Supplier) to ensure the success of delivering the project within agreed timescales and budget.

Main duties of the job

The post is within the Digital Services directorate and provide an ideal platform to learn and develop within the NHS and the digital field.

Applications are invited for the post of a Senior Project Manager to join the Digital Innovation & Transformation Team within Hywel Dda to play a pivotal role in the delivery of a key strategic digital projects within the Health Community.

The post holder will be responsible for managing and controlling the delivery of complex digital projects which form part of Digital Response strategic aims and are key to the successful implementation of the Health Board's Strategy.

We are keen to recruit experienced project managers who are passionate about what they do and what to make a difference for patients and our communities. Whilst some knowledge of working within a digital environment is useful it is not essential. We are looking for someone who can work successfully as part of a team but take initiative and lead when appropriate.

The applicant should hold a project management qualification such as APMP or PRINCE2 and have experience of managing multiple projects within a programme or portfolio. They will have excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills and able to use those skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders, organise events or workshops and to ensure initiation and delivery of multiple projects successfully.

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board is an award winning provider of NHS healthcare services for people in West Wales. Covering the counties of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties, our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through the following sites:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices , 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;

Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services.

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.