Digital Project Manager
Job summary
We are looking for a motivated and experienced Digital Project Manager to lead the delivery of a varied portfolio of digital projects that directly support the strategic priorities of Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. This is a high-impact role where your work will help shape and improve digital services that support frontline care and patient outcomes.
You will work closely with Directors, senior managers, clinicians and a wide range of stakeholders to take projects from initial concept through to successful delivery. The role requires strong leadership, clear communication and the ability to balance innovation and change with robust governance, risk management and financial control.
The IT Department plays a critical role in delivering high-quality technology services across the Trust, while also providing revenue-generating IT services to other NHS organisations and private sector healthcare partners. This creates a dynamic and forward-thinking environment where digital transformation is genuinely valued and supported.
If you enjoy managing projects, influencing change, and seeing your work deliver real benefits, this role offers the chance to do exactly that.
Main duties of the job
- Manage and deliver multiple projects within the Trust's 3 year IT plan
- Establish, oversee and support delivery across Digital Portfolio workstreams.
- Identify, develop and implement digital transformation projects.
- Drive innovation by proposing improvements and optimising system configuration.
- Produce clear, audience-appropriate project documentation and reports.
- Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Act as an ambassador for IT services and digital delivery across the Trust.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
PROJECT MANAGEMENT & DELIVERY
- Take responsibility for the project management, development and delivery of a portfolio of projects and workstreams across a range of areas
- Define project scope, objectives and resources with project leads, sponsors and key groups, including leading the development of business cases and project initiation documentation
- Develop and manage detailed project plans with project leads, identifying key deliverables and internal milestones, using Trust project management documentation and tools
- Ensure projects are monitored and delivered in line with targets set by Project Sponsors, the IT governance structure and Trust Board
- Regularly review project milestones to ensure delivery on time and within budget
- Identify and agree corrective actions with workstream leads and stakeholders where there are concerns about delivery
Please see Job Description for more detail.
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Person Specification
Qualification & Education
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with post graduate qualification or experience in a project management-related subject
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Qualification in management, organisational development, change management or similar
Knowledge & Training
- NHS structures for the delivery of services in secondary care
- Principles of audit and evaluation
- Effective management of change
- Service redesign techniques
- Understand the Public Duty under the Equality Act and the impact on changing clinical services
Experience
- Significant experience of system design and configuration
- Significant experience of identification and exploitation of business development opportunities
- Experience of managing projects with active stakeholder, public and patient involvement
- Previous experience of using project tracking systems
- Previous experience of analysing and presenting information effectively in report form, in discussion and in presentations where there is a need to persuade and motivate others to change their attitude and behaviour
- Significant experience of managing high profile contentious projects within an Acute Trust
- Project management experience within the NHS
- Experience of facilitating team development workshops and other organisational development interventions
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
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Address
Sandwell Health campus
Lyndon
West Bromwich
B71 4HJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.swbh.nhs.uk/