Digital Project Manager (Permanent)
Job summary
As Digital Project Manager, you will drive the management and delivery of multiple digital projects, ensuring they are planned, resourced, and successfully delivered. Reporting to the Digital Transformation Programme Manager, you will collaborate with stakeholders, lead project delivery, and play an integral role in delivering the Trust's digital strategy.
This role offers a chance to develop and refine your project management skills, from risk analysis and budgeting to stakeholder engagement. You will be integral in ensuring the seamless transition of projects into operational support, championing best practice and driving forward digital innovation across the trust.
Working within a supportive NHS environment, you will have opportunities for professional development and play a vital part in enhancing patient care through innovative digital solutions.
Main duties of the job
As Digital Project Manager, you will shape the successful delivery of multiple Digital Services projects, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and recognised project methodologies.
You will lead the creation of essential documentation, including business cases, Project Initiation Documents, and risk and issue logs, guiding teams to stay on track, within budget, and focused on measurable benefits. Communication will be key, as you collaborate with stakeholders across the Trust, provide clear project updates, and act as a trusted adviser on best practice and governance structures.
You will oversee the effective assignment of resources and tasks, offering direction and support to project teams as they navigate complex technical challenges. By embedding consistent standards and compliance with change management processes, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement in project delivery. With your guidance, lessons learned will be captured, shared, and used to refine future approaches, reinforcing a cycle of ongoing development.
This role will see you cultivate robust partnerships, champion collaboration, and enable robust management of projects. You will ensure that projects deliver tangible outcomes to support EMAS's strategic outcomes.
About us
The projects team in Digital Services at EMAS is responsible for delivery of the organisation's portfolio of digitally enabled projects. The key outcomes of the projects team are to successfully deliver projects across scope, time, budget, and quality constraints, supporting cross functional working, and providing visibility across all phases of the projects.
Working closely with Digital PMO, the projects team ensures that projects/programmes are delivered collaboratively, maintaining consistency of delivery, and sharing of best practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further details on the role requirements can be found on the attached Job Description/person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications Professional Development
- Degree in an associated IT/business subject or equivalent learning and experience. Prince 2 Practitioner qualified or equivalent learning and experience of a similar project methodology.
- ITIL qualification Post graduate training in associated project management subject
Experience
- Extensive wide-ranging experience of project / programme management Experience of line management including appraisals and grievances Proven track record showing significant project delivery experience (including PRINCE or similar project methodology). Experience of running complex projects within a healthcare environment. Experience of delivering simultaneous projects with significant financial value Experience of managing project budgets Experience of managing and leading teams, chairing and facilitating meetings and acting as a motivator and communicator
- Experience of working in a senior project management role within the NHS Experience of running complex Digital Services projects.
Knowledge
- Sound knowledge of NHS organisations and information requirements. Awareness of the business case process. Knowledge of budgetary management. Awareness of risk analysis and management Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications Able to present highly complex technical issues to a non-technical audience via various media Excellent interpersonal skills Experienced technical/specification writing skills
- Working knowledge of Information Governance requirements and how they impact on project delivery Experienced budget holder
Personal Attributes
- Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate, engage, influence and motivate teams Able to use judgement and negotiate on contentious issues with conflicting priorities Able to work under intense pressure and make informative decisions in a reactive environment Able to work independently at all times Standard keyboard skills Must be able to travel independently to trust locations across the East Midlands.
- Experienced budget holder
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Address
Beechdale Ambulance Station
Beechdale Road
NG8 3LL
Employer's website
https://www.emas.nhs.uk/
- Company
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Location
- Beechdale Road, United Kingdom NG8 3LL
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Location
- Beechdale Road, United Kingdom NG8 3LL
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year
- Posted