Digital Programme Manager – Securing the Future Programme

Job summary

The StF Digital Programme Manager will play a key role in supporting the Digital workstream, ensuring the effective coordination and delivery of a programme of projects across the StF. The postholder will work closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met.

The role requires skills in programme and project planning, project coordination, stakeholder management skills, ensuring that all activities align with programme requirements, technical standards, and Trust priorities.

The postholder will be responsible for liaising with workstream leads, stakeholders, consultants and specialist advisors to support the smooth progression of project workstreams.

The role will provide leadership over project teams and external partners. The post holder will also provide guidance to the Digital Business Analyst and/ or project support staff and collaborate with external digital delivery partners, ensuring they are effectively guided, and performance is managed to meet project outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Working as Digital Programme Manager in the StF Programme, the post holder will lead a defined portfolio of digital projects and initiatives supporting the new hospital development and wider transformation aims. Operating within a matrix programme structure and reporting to the StF Digital Lead, the post holder will act with a high degree of autonomy to shape and deliver digital elements of the programme in line with broad strategic objectives. This will include:

• Strategic digital leadership: Developing and implementing digital strategies, standards and policies for the new hospital programme that influence the wider Trust and partners, ensuring alignment with national digital health initiatives.
• Programme management: Leading and coordinating major digital initiatives comprising multiple complex projects from initiation through to completion, with a focus on benefits realisation, robust governance, and value for money.
• Digital portfolio ownership: Acting as the accountable lead for the digital workstream, representing the Trust as a client to external suppliers and partner organisations, and ensuring digital projects deliver safe, efficient, future-ready solutions for patient care and hospital operations.
• Working with Clinical and Non-Clinical Service Units (CSUs) to identify and define digital requirements that will support operational efficiencies in the new healthcare facility.

For further details please see the attached Job Description.

About us

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.