Main area Cancer Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment considered)
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working 50/50 onsite / offsite / working from home)
Job ref 423-6875198
Employer Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Airedale General Hospital
Town Steeton
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 25/03/2025 23:59
Senior Digital Project Manager (Cancer Lead Team) (Band 7)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
The Senior Digital Project Manager will work with the Head of Digital PMO and Lead Cancer Manager taking responsibility for establishing project-wide plans which embrace key milestones and critical path events to assess the digital cancer transformational needs of the Trust.
Main duties of the job
* To support the overall cancer digital programme of work to achieve the successful implementation of both short and long term and both local and district wide projects that support the development of a digitally enabled organisation.
* To take responsibility for ensuring that project is running to agreed project management standards and that an auditable trail exists throughout the life of the project.
* To negotiate with clinical and management colleagues a practical plan regarding project deliverables as required to achieve the desired outcome.
* To monitor the progress of each work-stream against the agreed project plan and intervene at any point where there is a risk of delay, resource overuse or unacceptable quality.
* To identify conflicting priorities and propose appropriate action to deliver the overall programme of work; to escalate to senior colleagues where necessary.
* To liaise with, co-ordinate and monitor the activities of suppliers as appropriate to ensure all projects are implemented in a timely manner, to a high quality and to agreed standards.
* To assess risk for key tasks in each work-stream and estimate, in negotiation with managers, the likelihood and impact of the risk.
* To be responsible for Project Budget, Change Control and Business Contingency planning for assigned projects.
* To justify any decisions taken within each project, through reference to evidence maintained in project archives, when required to do so by any audit authority.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find further details of this vacancy in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent experience
* Degree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role)
* Master’s degree in project management or other relevant area or equivalent qualification
* MSP Foundation
Knowledge & Experience
* Knowledge of managing complex, cancer strategic projects or areas of complex working practices
* Experience of working with suppliers and managing a range of stakeholder relationships
* Knowledge of business change process analysis and design techniques
* Experience of working within an Acute NHS Trust or NHSE system wide organisation and working with clinical and administrative staff
Skills
* Fluent user of Windows-based desktop productivity software, including Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Database Management and Presentation tools
* The ability to communicate, written and oral, Quick to learn and understand new material Enthusiasm for new technology while maintaining people centred approach Application form / interview highly-complex business change concepts and issues to all levels of staff, both orally and in written form
* Ability to plan and organise complex digital programmes of work for self and others, some of which will be ongoing and may require adjustment to accommodate changing demands and situations
* Working knowledge of implementation of Robotic Process Automations (RPA)
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard or Basic £26.40) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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