Senior Project Manager - EPR Estates and Infrastructure
Job summary
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the most transformative digital health programmes at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT). As the Estates Lead for the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme, you'll be at the heart of the infrastructure changes required to enable this milestone initiative.
Working closely with IT colleagues, external providers, and senior stakeholders, you'll lead the deployment and readiness of technical devices across all LGT sites - ensuring our clinical teams are equipped to deliver care in a digitally enhanced environment. This post is a key dependency for the programme's success, requiring strong project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and operational oversight.
Reporting directly to the EPR Technology Programme Manager, with a dotted line to the Head of Estates, you'll help shape the future of digital healthcare at LGT. If you're passionate about infrastructure transformation, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to make a tangible impact on patient outcomes, this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference.
Main duties of the job
This job role requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual; with excellent project management and organisational skills to assist and supports the works of Trust's Redevelopment Programme Management Office [PMO] by providing comprehensive management of various capital projects that the Trust wish to deliver.
The post holder will be required to develop and manage the programme workstream and manage the projects with the support of the project officers and administrative support within the PMO. There are three themes in the Estate Redevelopment Programme, one focussed on QEH, another UHL and also the Community estate.
Key requirements for the role include strong communication, presentational and project management skills.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
Excellent planning and organisation skills will be required. The activities are often made up of several components and may require the formulation and adjustment of plans.
To be responsible for all required drafting and typing of correspondence, reports and presentation materials.
Provide support as necessary to, the PMO Support Officers, and other members of the Redevelopment Team in the overall planning, presentation and progression of the key operational, performance, quality and risk objectives.
Support the team members in undertaking projects as agreed, working unsupervised to ensure effective planning and timely delivery.
Able to maintain a high level of performance when faced with competing priorities.
Ability to assess the importance and urgency of situations and initiate action, where appropriate.
Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload without direct supervision and meet required deadlines for completion.
Person Specification
Education, qualifications and training
- Masters degree or equivalent experience
- Educated to degree level in an IT or Health related subject.
- Project Management qualification - PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Managing Successful Programmes
- ECDL
Experience
- Significant experience at senior management level managing complex and large-scale IT projects in a heath care environment, specifically in the subject matter field.
- Understanding of ITIL best practice.
- Proven experience of staff management
- Experience of Budget management - large scale capital projects
- NHS Systems knowledge
- Acute and Community Health Setting Experience
- Programme management experience
- EPR deployment Experience
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
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
Catford Offices
Catford
SE6 4RU
Employer's website
https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/