Digital Primary Care Project Manager
Job summary
Please note this organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require sponsorship.
Working as part of the Digital Primary Care team, you will lead a portfolio of transformational projects that support the strategic priorities of NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board. You will work closely with primary care providers, system partners and suppliers to implement innovative technology solutions that improve patient access, enhance workforce productivity and support the delivery of high-quality care.
You will have significant experience in managing complex projects and programmes, engaging a diverse range of stakeholders and delivering measurable outcomes within agreed timescales, budgets and governance frameworks. Knowledge of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight health and care system would be advantageous, helping to foster effective relationships and drive successful implementation across organisational boundaries.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced project manager to make a significant contribution to the ongoing transformation of primary care services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Main duties of the job
You will play a key role in shaping and delivering strategic initiatives across primary care, providing strong project leadership, ensuring robust governance arrangements, coordinating effective stakeholder engagement and communication, and supporting the realisation of tangible benefits for patients, practices and the wider health and care system.
About us
Working for Your Organisation:
We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.
We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.
We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.
Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:
27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
NHS pension scheme
Sick pay policy
Occupational health services including staff counselling services
Flexible working and family friendly policies
Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Digital Primary Care Project Manager will work as part of Digital Primary Care Team supporting the organisation to deliver its identified priorities
Contribute to the delivery of the ICBs digital strategy and plans by implementation of projects, programmes and activities.
The Digital Primary Care Project Manager will provide leadership to deliver projects, initiatives and activities, and will adopt the relevant project management methodologies and standards where appropriate.
To ensure that necessary tasks and targets in the plans are achieved and that appropriate documentation and communication take place.
Deliver the successful implementation of agreed tasks, activities and projects that impact the programmes against agreed project plans to time and within constraints, using industry standard project methodologies.
Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
Developing business cases.
Manage project phases ensuring agreed and approved Clinical Safety Assessment signoffs to enable the project to be implemented.
Keep up to date with digital programmes locally and nationally to support the development of best practice digital projects.
Provide and receive complex information to ensure successful delivery of the projects.
Effectively manage project risks, including the development of contingency plans.
Write and produce reports, project plans, and documents to a consistent and high standard and with the ability to prcis and write succinctly.
Provide leadership with colleagues, both internal and external, in gaining agreement and cooperation in the delivery of projects and information requirements.
Support the development of internal and external communication where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and communications team.
To liaise with partner agencies in providing and receiving complex and sensitive information.
To deputise for other managers within the team and represent the ICB at agreed meetings with partner agencies, presenting complex and sensitive information to large groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/ or experience
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area. A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
- Professional qualification in project management or equivalent experience and a commitment to on-going CPD.
- Highly specialist knowledge across the range of project management Principles, Themes, Processes and Practices.
Skills and abilities
- Skills for manipulating information.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
Knowledge
- Experience of resource management, business management, communications and financial management.
- Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
Communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Working knowledge of various Microsoft programmes including Teams/Word/Excel/ PowerPoint/Project
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB (104)
Address
Omega House
112 Southampton Road
Eastleigh
SO50 5PB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hantsiowhealthandcare.org.uk/icb