Digital Transformation Project Manager
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 02 May 2024
Job summary
Digital Transformation Project Manager
Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you exactly the person we are looking for? Applications are welcomed from experienced, enthusiastic, professional people who want to join our Digital Team in this role as a Digital Transformation Project Manager
The successful candidate will work as part of a dynamic and agile Digital Transformation and Innovation team. They will be accountable for delivering and implementing digital products and services as part of the Digital Transformation Programme which is in support of University of Northamptonshire's Digital Strategy
The post holder will be working across both Kettering & Northampton General Hospitals. We are a digital team that has a hybrid approach, therefore there is an expectation for you to work both onsite at either site and remotely. Experience of working with agile methodologies will be an advantage.
Main duties of the job
- Develop, lead and manage the delivery of projects associated with the Group Digital Strategy, with varying levels of size and complexity ensuring that they do not have an adverse impact on patient care and quality
- Promote and practice agile methodologies in delivery of digital projects.
- Report regularly on project performance, risk management and financial control.
- As budget holders for projects you will carry out day to budget management duties, including administering and monitoring the project budget.
- Develop business justifications, business cases and project artefacts in collaboration with Business Unit operational teams, working to principles of Minimum Viable Bureaucracy.
- To ensure that services are continually reviewed and improve the quality, effectiveness and safety of care, actively seeking out and learning the lessons from complaints, compliments, investigations and other information and intelligence
About us
We have recently formed the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group, bringing together the constituent organisations of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. We have agreed an ambitious Group Strategy 'Dedicated to Excellence' which sets out our strategic ambitions and priorities for the next five years. We have also launched our Group Digital Strategy, which sets out our ambitions over next three years to become the most digital hospital in England. Across our Digital portfolio we are working to the following principles:
- Putting users' needs first
- Designing for simplicity
- Working in an agile way
- Doing things once across the Group
- Communicating and engaging throughout
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Use tools and techniques of the internet era to understand user needs and put into place solutions that meet expectations.
- As the Group moves to an electronic patient record (EPR), proactively understand how technical architecture and data processes need to adapt to support the increasing use of digital records and support the Digital Innovation Enterprise Architect to lead the implementation of this alongside the rest of the management team.
- Work with service leads, health and social care managers and IT project managers to implement change management activities: identify, plan and deliver qualitative, time saving or cash releasing benefits through the application of information systems.
- Challenge existing practices, ensuring that progressive solutions, which consider models of best practice, are incorporated into service plans.
- Support a culture of innovation, exploring emerging technology and its application to the UHN Group ambitions.
- Support the development and implementation of the Group Digital Strategy, in line with Group, Trust and National priorities and initiatives, and leading digital techniques
- Support the promotion and the adoption of agile methodologies across project teams and into the wider Group
- Working with service managers to identify benefits enabled by each IT project, establish ownership and manage the delivery of agreed benefits.
- Match benefits requirements to system functionality to realise previously identified benefits
- Working with clinicians identify individual service area and corporate information requirements and work with IT project teams to facilitate the delivery of those requirements.
Working with University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and other governance leads, support and agree information governance and IT security policies and procedures and ensure Service Leads and their staff adhere to those policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Use tools and techniques of the internet era to understand user needs and put into place solutions that meet expectations.
- As the Group moves to an electronic patient record (EPR), proactively understand how technical architecture and data processes need to adapt to support the increasing use of digital records and support the Digital Innovation Enterprise Architect to lead the implementation of this alongside the rest of the management team.
- Work with service leads, health and social care managers and IT project managers to implement change management activities: identify, plan and deliver qualitative, time saving or cash releasing benefits through the application of information systems.
- Challenge existing practices, ensuring that progressive solutions, which consider models of best practice, are incorporated into service plans.
- Support a culture of innovation, exploring emerging technology and its application to the UHN Group ambitions.
- Support the development and implementation of the Group Digital Strategy, in line with Group, Trust and National priorities and initiatives, and leading digital techniques
- Support the promotion and the adoption of agile methodologies across project teams and into the wider Group
- Working with service managers to identify benefits enabled by each IT project, establish ownership and manage the delivery of agreed benefits.
- Match benefits requirements to system functionality to realise previously identified benefits
- Working with clinicians identify individual service area and corporate information requirements and work with IT project teams to facilitate the delivery of those requirements.
Working with University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and other governance leads, support and agree information governance and IT security policies and procedures and ensure Service Leads and their staff adhere to those policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to Degree level education or equivalent level or equivalent experience delivering Digital services in a complex environment
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
- Quality improvement methodology qualification e.g. QSIR
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of effectively managing complex projects from brief through to delivery, including risk management and change control
- Proven experience of setting project objectives, managing priorities and dependencies within project, mitigating risks and reporting status updates to teams and stakeholders
- Track record in successfully delivering service improvement initiatives demonstrated by quantifiable metrics
- Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders using different approaches relevant to the audience
Desirable
- Experience of working within the NHS
Skills
Essential
- Ability to apply appropriate project management methodologies according to the risk, scope and scale of a project
- Ability to self-motivate and work on own initiative and organise own workload
- Good verbal communication skills; ability to build rapport with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels and to develop wider networks
Skills (part 2)
Essential
- Good written communication skills; ability to convey highly complex information in a way that is understood by a range of target audiences
- Ability to respond to shifting priorities, demands and timescales through analytical and problem solving capabilities in a high-pressure environment where there are competing demands.
- Ability to work with service users to understand their needs and translate this in order to inform product design, planning and implementation
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to Degree level education or equivalent level or equivalent experience delivering Digital services in a complex environment
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
- Quality improvement methodology qualification e.g. QSIR
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of effectively managing complex projects from brief through to delivery, including risk management and change control
- Proven experience of setting project objectives, managing priorities and dependencies within project, mitigating risks and reporting status updates to teams and stakeholders
- Track record in successfully delivering service improvement initiatives demonstrated by quantifiable metrics
- Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders using different approaches relevant to the audience
Desirable
- Experience of working within the NHS
Skills
Essential
- Ability to apply appropriate project management methodologies according to the risk, scope and scale of a project
- Ability to self-motivate and work on own initiative and organise own workload
- Good verbal communication skills; ability to build rapport with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels and to develop wider networks
Skills (part 2)
Essential
- Good written communication skills; ability to convey highly complex information in a way that is understood by a range of target audiences
- Ability to respond to shifting priorities, demands and timescales through analytical and problem solving capabilities in a high-pressure environment where there are competing demands.
- Ability to work with service users to understand their needs and translate this in order to inform product design, planning and implementation
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
