Job summary
Digital and Data Services have a large digital roadmap of works to be delivered in the coming years, and we currently have an opportunity for a Digital Project Manager to join the Digital Projects Team and work on the delivery of this programme.
The Digital Projects Team is part of the Digital Delivery Section of Digital and Data Services. The team delivers projects working towards achieving the Trusts Digital roadmap and ensuring our digital offering continues to build to support the organisation to deliver excellent patient care.
The successful candidate will work with colleagues and partners to deliver a number of projects across the roadmap which covers our Electronic Patient Record products, Corporate Systems and our Technology functions. This will be done by managing projects through ensuring their work is in-line with best practice and project methodologies.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will be experienced in managing multiple digital projects. They should have an eye for detail and be proactive and flexible with their approach to all tasks, be able to produce clear concise project documentation and have excellent communication and negotiation skills. The ideal candidate will have experience of working on projects regarding system implementations from procurement through to hand over to operational services and also Technical projects that require a level of technical understanding to liaise with suppliers and ensure that project deliverables meet requirements.
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Date posted
01 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-CORP-034-25
Job locations
Flatts Lane Centre
Flatts Lane
Middlesbrough
TS6 0SZ
Job description
Job responsibilities
The responsibilities will include:
1. Keeping the relevant IT Programme Leads or Project Board and/or Governance Boards and/or Trust Senior Leadership Group aware of progress and risks (escalating as appropriate).
2. Ensuring the Trusts project management framework is fully utilised and that the planning, monitoring and governance of the project are carried out in line with relevant Trust policies and procedures, raising any concerns to senior management level in a timely manner.
3. Establishing and sustaining effective arrangements to plan, manage and monitor the outputs of any work streams that underpin the project, ensuring that they deliver the required outputs to the agreed specification and deadlines.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
4. Educated to postgraduate diploma level in a relevant subject or equivalent experiential learning
5. Evidence of training in Programme or Project Management principles and techniques
6. The Trust's QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders Certificate (or willing to achieve within agreed timescale)
Desirable
7. Project Management Qualification
8. Quality improvement qualification, or evidence of training in quality improvement principles and techniques
Experience
Essential
9. Experience in supporting significant change initiatives in IT or Health Informatics
10. Developing and monitoring complex programme or project plans, including project scopes, initiation documents and business cases
11. Proven experience in engaging successfully with a range of stakeholders to elicit requirements
12. Experience of using influencing and negotiation techniques
13. Experience of producing written reports and relating to complex information and data
14. Experience of presenting complex issues to senior management in order to trigger a decision
15. Able to make reasoned judgements even when key information is missing or uncertain
16. Use of appropriate communications and coaching techniques to motivate and inspire others to act
Desirable
17. Experience of formal project management a part of a programme
18. Experience of using a quality improvement system
Knowledge
Essential
19. Has understanding of nationally recognised project management systems
20. Understanding of the issues and context underlying the specific programme/projects to be managed
21. Good understanding of the Trust's Programme/Project Management framework (within agreed timescale)
22. Good understanding of the Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS) (within agreed timescale)
23. Understanding of the digital, political, and managerial context of the NHS and drivers of reform and change within the NHS
24. Specific managerial knowledge required to have credibility with the stakeholders for the project (or an indication from past experience that this can be gained quickly)
25. Understands coaching tools and how to manage and influence both directly managed staff, peers and more senior staff
26. Understands own strengths and weaknesses and able to seek advice/support accordingly
Desirable
27. Understanding of Mental health and Learning Disability services
28. Specialist knowledge and understanding of the subject matter of the project(s) to be managed.
Skills
Essential
29. Excellent presentation skills
30. Change Management skills
31. Ability to understand operational issues quickly and gain credibility with the people who will have to implement or use the products being produced by the project
32. Able to analyse and assesses information from multiple sources to inform option appraisals / business cases, revising pathways and ways of working.
33. Excellent Workshop design and facilitation skills
34. Able to analyse and understand complex information and uncertainties about future risk
35. Confidence and ability to challenge senior managers appropriately regarding governance of the programme, escalating where required
36. Able to develop options and clearly communicate the impact of different options on the timescales, costs and benefits realisation trajectories to line manager / project board / programme board leve
37. Able to identify interdependencies and the potential impact of these
38. Excellent facilitation, influencing and negotiating skills
39. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
40. Good understanding how service redesign can deliver significant benefits within the NHS
41. Able to communicate successfully with awide range of stakeholders both verbally and in writing
42. Proficient in use of standard IT packages eg Microsoft Office
43. Excellent keyboard skills
Desirable
44. Coaching skills
45. Chairing skills
46. Quantitative data analysis skills