Digital Transformation Project Manager
Job summary
As part of the Trust's Project Management team, the post holder will provide a professional project management service to support the Trust's service transformation and IT strategy priorities. The post holder will work across the Trust to deliver the full life-cycle of a range of projects, from the analysis of requirements, the creation of business cases, to the delivery of significant and sustainable benefits.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will ensure the delivery of efficient and effective planning and implementation of Projects.
- The Project Manager will be responsible for the overall management and successful delivery of multiple complex projects, within the programme portfolio, to the required DTT quality and standards.
- Liaise with local project teams to produce project documentation, including the Project Initiation Document(s) (PID) and project control documents (Risk and Issue Log) etc.
- Lead and line manage Project Team Members.
- Support business process change and service improvement planning.
- Effective communication of projects benefits, justification and progress to all stakeholders.
- Raise awareness to support the delivery of projects
About us
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Ensure that the project deliverables are met by the project team and are aligned to the Trusts strategic aims.
- Create, launch and execute robust project plans articulating milestones, timescales, stakeholders etc (Gantt Charts etc) using a plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle or similar.
- Co-ordinate marketing with the communication team when needed.
- Plan program activities for the entire year, such as Project Boards, meetings, teleconferences, and web seminars and establishes and actively manages these programme timelines.
- Schedule and lead all project team progress meetings, pulling in specialists (Finance, IT, etc) as necessary.
- Organise and attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings or Project Boards with managers within designated areas within the Trust.
- Apply skills and knowledge to react to unplanned situations, for example is able to act quickly to re-align a project plan as health care environments change daily.
- Take an active role in developing policies and procedures and proposing changes as and when required to meet project targets.
- Contribute to the development and continual improvement of the processes and systems of work within the Digital Transformation team.
- Analyse, map and review current state processes & pathways with multidisciplinary teams.
- Analyse, interpret and compare complex facts gaining a full understanding of the project in order to fully support project implementation.
- Work with relevant lead to identify benefits from project/improvement activity and that these are reported back through the overall Trust Transformation programme.
- Intervene as necessary, in order to remain on plan, escalate in a pro-active manner, problem solve or resolve through effective communication.
- Generate project specific reports at agreed time points in the projects lifetime.
- Be able to perform complex analyses and interpretations to review clinical and project data, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts across a range of performance aspects (quality, cost, delivery etc)
- Be able to track data continuously to quickly resolve failures to meet project requirements and act accordingly to inform team members as appropriate.
- Regularly interrogate and provide data from the information systems within the Trusts information directorate, including appropriate analysis and creating reports as required.
- Ensure that all records and information are maintained in a way that allows up-to-date and timely information to be available.
Person Specification
Education
- Project management Qualification e.g. (PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification, Agile etc)
- Educated to, or relevant experience at Master's level
Experience
- Significant experience of managing and understanding complex projects in a complex organisation (such as the NHS) including the management of external suppliers
- Significant experience of managing project risks
- Significant experience of managing business change requirements and ensuring systems are in place to realise project benefits
- Experience of staff management
Skills
- Ability to build relationships and understanding with frontline staff, in order to properly identify and implement business change requirements as part of the project
- Excellent, communication, interpersonal, organisational and presentation skills
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
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Avenue
Gateshead
NE9 6SX
Employer's website
https://www.qegateshead.nhs.uk