Senior Project Manager - IM&T
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Project Manager - IM&T (Band 8a) to play a central role in delivering Wye Valley NHS Trust's Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme and wider digital transformation ambitions. As a senior member of the IM&T Programme team, you will lead the planning, procurement, implementation, and optimisation of complex digital and clinical system projects that support high-quality patient care.
You will act as a role model for digital project delivery, working closely with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders to ensure the right technology, processes and change activities are delivered at the right time. This is a highly influential role requiring strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate complex organisational and technical environments.
Main duties of the job
As Senior Project Manager for IM&T, you will lead the delivery of complex digital and clinical system projects that directly support the Trust's EPR Programme and Digital Strategy. You will manage and motivate project managers, project support officers and business change analysts, ensuring they have clear objectives and the support they need to deliver high-quality outcomes. A key part of the role involves developing and maintaining robust project documentation, governance reporting, risk and change controls, and ensuring consistent alignment with clinical and operational service-improvement initiatives.
You will work closely with clinical, technical and managerial colleagues to support smooth project delivery, coordinating resources across teams and ensuring strong, proactive communication with all stakeholders. The role also includes contributing to procurement processes, supporting contract management, overseeing training and implementation activities, and ensuring the safe transition of new systems into operational use. Throughout, you will champion best practice in digital change, stakeholder engagement and benefits realisation.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
- Educated to masters degree level or equivalent experience in an area relevant to health service management and improvement/Pathology
- Practitioner level accreditation (Foundation) in PRINCE 2 project management or equivalent experience
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Ability to deliver successful IM&T & non IM&T projects to support organisational change management and strategic objectives
- Demonstrable expert knowledge of Microsoft Office software products
- Demonstrable high-level presentation skills having communicated complex ideas / proposals to a variety of levels of staff across multiple organisations
- Demonstrable excellent written and oral communication skills having produced papers / status reports for project boards / Trust boards / regulators
- Ability to influence at a senior level, e.g. influence without direct line level authorities
- Ability to achieve challenging deadlines and targets
- Excellent levels of numeracy and literacy
- Knowledge of clinical pathways
- Comprehensive knowledge of data validation and quality assurance systems
- Comprehensive knowledge of NHS data definitions and information standards
Experience
- Demonstrable successful project or general management experience
- Evidence of successful risk management regarding complex, multi-organisational projects
- Experience in the development of complex project plans
- Experience of the successful management of change related to the introduction of IT solutions
- Experience of persuading and influencing staff at all levels
- Knowledge of IM&T Infrastructure
Personal Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Can work with clinical and non-clinical staff of all disciplines
- Must be able to communicate effectively with senior managers and healthcare professionals within the Trust and in other local and national NHS organisations
- Ability to talk about IM&T in a clear and simple way to non-IT staff, and to engage with clinicians in an effective manner
Other Factors
- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
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
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford County Hospital
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/