Job summary
Why should you work for us:
- The trust has recently achieved teaching trust status and has an ongoing commitment to the development of all staff
- The Digital Services team has a consistent track record of career, team and personal development
- Our change portfolio is continually developing to deliver the trusts strategy regularly generating new projects, and, opportunities to expand your skill set and experience
- 27 days leave (increasing with length of service) plus 8 bank holidays
- Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
- Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
- Excellent pension
- Access to a wide range of benefits and high street discounts
Summary of the role:
- As part of the Digital Services change team you will manage a number of projects, supported by a programme manager
- You will work with teams within Digital Services and across the trust and potentially the wider community we serve
- We are looking for motivated and delivery focussed Project Managers
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are key to ensure a patient and service user focus is maintained throughout delivery
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the delivery of typically smaller projects throughout the project life cycle
- Manage projects based on the principles of Prince 2 methodology
- Building and leading project teams
- Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
- Ensuring budget is agreed and manage expenditure against that budget
- Responsible for the management of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies identified by the project team
- Ensuring benefits are identified, monitored and delivered
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ORGANISATION AND PLANNING
- To develop, manage and implement projects.
- Where appropriate, liaise with external suppliers and have an aware of procurement methodologies.
- To assist in the negotiation of project scope, products and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- To provide practical assistance in relation to change management and benefits frameworks.
COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- To assist in the development of communication plans.
- Effectively communicate project objectives to team members and stakeholders in a timely and unambiguous fashion.
- To establish and maintain communication with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis throughout the life of the project.
- To establish and nurture conducive working relationships with groups of staff at all levels across the Health Care Community.
- To provide information which can be incorporated into reports to the Project Team and Board.
- To ensure that project documentation is available in clear and recognizable format.
- To communicate effectively with external suppliers.
- To have the ability to work with and communicate with people who are not fully committed to the project objectives.
- To deliver presentations to varying numbers of staff of all grades on a frequent basis.
OPERATIONAL
- Contribute towards strategic information developments within the Trust
- To represent the Trust at appropriate national, regional and local forums, ensuring that the information is disseminated back to appropriate teams/departments.
- Identifying the resources required to achieve project delivery in consultation with major stakeholders.
- To manage the budget allocated to the project.
- To work with all levels of management across multi disciplinary areas to support requirements of the project.
- To react quickly and rationally in a crisis situation.
- To ensure all documentation is completed in accordance with project management methodologies, i.e. Prince 2, and locally defined configuration management protocols.
- Work with the Head of IT Programme Management to set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Delegation of tasks as appropriate to team members of varying skills and seniority.
- Work with the Head of IT Programme Management to manage and identify project dependencies and critical pathways.
- Plan, schedule and track project timescales, milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope.
- Work with the project management team in the identification of potential risks to the project, developing and managing comprehensive risk management strategies.
- Develop and implement contingency planning procedures.
- Assist in the definition of project success criteria and work with the project managers to disseminate to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Conduct post project reviews and create a lessons learned report, which could benefit future projects.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
- To take a prominent role in the benefits realisation programme.
- To produce exception reports and develop the ability to make pertinent recommendations to enable the project board to make informed decisions on future direction.
- To provide regular updates regarding project activities to the Head of IT Programme Management
SKILLS
- To make judgements involving complex situations often requiring the analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- To utilise planning and organisational skills appropriate to the level of the project.
- Utilising experience and formal training with tools for example PRINCE2 and Microsoft Project.
- The ability to communicate and share knowledge and practise with other specialist and non-specialist colleagues at all levels across health care communities.
- To develop and implement training plans where appropriate to the project
- To work in an analytical manner in order to differentiate components of often complex and at times conflicting information.
- To work with the project management team to understand how changes in Trust strategy impact on projects.
- A high level of interpersonal communication skill is required.
- To provide clear and concise information to enable decision making on critical aspects of project management.
- The ability to handle complex and stressful situations
Job description
Job responsibilities
ORGANISATION AND PLANNING
- To develop, manage and implement projects.
- Where appropriate, liaise with external suppliers and have an aware of procurement methodologies.
- To assist in the negotiation of project scope, products and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- To provide practical assistance in relation to change management and benefits frameworks.
COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- To assist in the development of communication plans.
- Effectively communicate project objectives to team members and stakeholders in a timely and unambiguous fashion.
- To establish and maintain communication with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis throughout the life of the project.
- To establish and nurture conducive working relationships with groups of staff at all levels across the Health Care Community.
- To provide information which can be incorporated into reports to the Project Team and Board.
- To ensure that project documentation is available in clear and recognizable format.
- To communicate effectively with external suppliers.
- To have the ability to work with and communicate with people who are not fully committed to the project objectives.
- To deliver presentations to varying numbers of staff of all grades on a frequent basis.
OPERATIONAL
- Contribute towards strategic information developments within the Trust
- To represent the Trust at appropriate national, regional and local forums, ensuring that the information is disseminated back to appropriate teams/departments.
- Identifying the resources required to achieve project delivery in consultation with major stakeholders.
- To manage the budget allocated to the project.
- To work with all levels of management across multi disciplinary areas to support requirements of the project.
- To react quickly and rationally in a crisis situation.
- To ensure all documentation is completed in accordance with project management methodologies, i.e. Prince 2, and locally defined configuration management protocols.
- Work with the Head of IT Programme Management to set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Delegation of tasks as appropriate to team members of varying skills and seniority.
- Work with the Head of IT Programme Management to manage and identify project dependencies and critical pathways.
- Plan, schedule and track project timescales, milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope.
- Work with the project management team in the identification of potential risks to the project, developing and managing comprehensive risk management strategies.
- Develop and implement contingency planning procedures.
- Assist in the definition of project success criteria and work with the project managers to disseminate to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Conduct post project reviews and create a lessons learned report, which could benefit future projects.
- Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
- To take a prominent role in the benefits realisation programme.
- To produce exception reports and develop the ability to make pertinent recommendations to enable the project board to make informed decisions on future direction.
- To provide regular updates regarding project activities to the Head of IT Programme Management
SKILLS
- To make judgements involving complex situations often requiring the analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- To utilise planning and organisational skills appropriate to the level of the project.
- Utilising experience and formal training with tools for example PRINCE2 and Microsoft Project.
- The ability to communicate and share knowledge and practise with other specialist and non-specialist colleagues at all levels across health care communities.
- To develop and implement training plans where appropriate to the project
- To work in an analytical manner in order to differentiate components of often complex and at times conflicting information.
- To work with the project management team to understand how changes in Trust strategy impact on projects.
- A high level of interpersonal communication skill is required.
- To provide clear and concise information to enable decision making on critical aspects of project management.
- The ability to handle complex and stressful situations
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in project management role within NHS setting
- Experience of working both independently and in a team orientated collaborative environment
- Knowledge within the area of IM&T within an NHS setting
- Experience of supporting Business change and service improvement elements of IT projects
Desirable
- Experience of managing an IM&T NHS project
- Experience of working in the NHS at a management level
- Experience of leading a service improvement focused IT project
Qualifications
Essential
- PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent Project Management qualification
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience.
- PRINCE2 Practitioner.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in project management role within NHS setting
- Experience of working both independently and in a team orientated collaborative environment
- Knowledge within the area of IM&T within an NHS setting
- Experience of supporting Business change and service improvement elements of IT projects
Desirable
- Experience of managing an IM&T NHS project
- Experience of working in the NHS at a management level
- Experience of leading a service improvement focused IT project
Qualifications
Essential
- PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent Project Management qualification
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience.
- PRINCE2 Practitioner.
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).
