Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting 12 month fixed term or secondment opportunity has arisen for a Senior Digital Project Manager to join our EPR Programme team.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a once in a generation opportunity to transform how care is delivered for our patients. We are a front line digitisation trail blazer on the national EPR programme.
Together we will underpin the care that our hospitals provide with a robust digital infrastructure, comprehensive suite of digital solutions and a wealth of digital intelligence. Our digital strategy clearly sets out our great ambition, which delivers a progressive and cohesive portfolio of digital solutions to front-line staff.
Main duties of the job
The EPR Programme comprises a multidisciplinary team of professional staff concerned with driving forward our ambition of having a fully integrated EPR solution by 2027. The aim of the service is to be 'The Best Digital Service in the NHS' and the Post Holder is required to contribute to this competence.
Reporting directly to the EPR Principal Digital Programme Manager, the Post Holder will focus on the delivery of our EPR Programme's Digital projects with knowledge of every aspect of the project lifecycle.
The Post Holder will be part of an integrated project team and provide Project Management leadership and expert advice to Project Boards, Project Managers and Project teams throughout the organisation to ensure that best practice, standards, tools, and techniques are in place.
The Post Holder will be expected to travel to site across LUHFT working collaboratively with both clinical and non- clinical teams.
Job responsibilities
1. Provide project management expertise and advice within the Directorate/organisation.
2. Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.
3. Oversee the successful delivery of a number of projects managed by members of the wider project team.
4. Ensure that all projects are managed in accordance with PRINCE2 Project Management standards.
5. Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.
6. Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.
7. Analyze and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, requiring the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options and deciding how resources are to be used.
8. Be responsible for developing and tracking the progress of project plans, including resource planning, using approved software.
9. Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the programme governance.
10. Identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s), including the development and implementation of contingency plans.
11. Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronized with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plans.
12. Ensure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the project.
13. Ensure that appropriate plans, documentation and procedures are in place when handing a project over to business as usual as part of project closure.
14. Work with other managers and attend meetings with other organisations to discuss project priorities and progress.
15. Make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programmes/projects and demonstrate systems to users when necessary.
16. Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate.
17. Contribute to the development and implementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the Directorate.
18. Monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and action taken to resolve situations and achieve progress.
19. Liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues.
20. Work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional policies.
21. Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate.
22. Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters Degree or equivalent.
* Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects.
Experience
* Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise.
* Experience of managing a team.
* Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications.
* Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians.
* Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge.
* Teaching and presentation skills.
* Experience of affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility.
* Analysis of non-routine data, interpretation and resolution.
* Experience of working in a NHS environment.
* A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care.
Knowledge
* Specialist knowledge and in-depth experience of working in a project environment.
Skills
* Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of staff or public.
* Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills.
* Ability to present project management techniques and tools.
* Ability to discuss project management technical details with non-technical users.
* Ability to deliver presentations to a large audience.
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.
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