NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

Project Implementation Officer

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Job summary

This is a great opportunity to join a forward thinking, innovative, friendly, and personalised team with whom you can express your talents and expertise to make a positive difference to the lives of people across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

The post holder will support the definition, scoping, delivery and implementation of pathways and guidance projects with primary care to ensure consistent and evidenced based pathways in planned care in line with the ICB identified area for change and the local digital roadmap.

Working directly withGP Practices, GP federations, PCNs, ICB, and external providers the post holder will collate requirements, identifying what is trying to be achieved and ensuring alignment with the overall vision from the ICS.

Main duties of the job

We need someone who can:

  • Plan and implement primary care/ICB IT projects, ensuring alignment with local strategies
  • Develop and monitor project timelines, milestones and deliverables
  • Engage with stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate, and validate complex requirements
  • Prepare regular reports for senior management and external stakeholders on project progress, challenges and results
  • Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to analyse information needs and functional requirements
  • Identify potential risks and maintain a RAID log for each project

About us

Staff working within the ICB are expected to have strong links with internal and external teams across the city and county. All individuals will have an identified base, but travel and cross-working is expected for most roles. Currently the ICB are operating a hybrid working model allowing a mix of office and home working to support colleagues to achieve a better work/life balance

Details

Date posted

05 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

111-6746178

Job locations

Sir John Robinson House

Nottingham

NG5 6DA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Result Areas

1. To have an excellent understanding of primary care digital issues

2. To analyse a project and determine the main stakeholders quickly and accurately.

3. To engage with stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate, and validate complex requirements.

4. To utilise the most appropriate means of gathering business requirements and assimilate those into system or solution requirements.

5. To facilitate the mapping of existing and future business processes

6. To engage and influence clinical staff in the development of effective IT systems and solutions across the health community.

7. Gather requirements using requirements workshops, document analysis, surveys, reviewing current business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.

8. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

9. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to analyse information needs and functional requirements.

10. Present regular updates and project plans to the Project Manager, Head/Deputy Head of Primary Care IT and the Task and Finish Groups, attend regular meetings as required

11. Drive and challenge stakeholders on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.

12. Serve as the conduit between the clinical community (primary and secondary care / private providers) and various project teams to ensure the project delivers the outlined user requirements.

13. Collaborate with members of health community, suppliers and other system experts to establish the system vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.

14. Build and maintain a strong relationship and act as the point of liaison between clinical teams for pathways and referrals.

15. Proactively engage in system user group meetings, facilitating and driving good communication between different stakeholders.

16. Support clinical information sharing between practitioners in a variety of formats, which will support provision of timely interventions to Service Users.

17. To prepare regular progress or highlight reports for the Project Manager, Head of Primary Care IT and the Task and Finish Group or relevant groups and attend regular meetings as required

The detailed Job Description and Person Specification containing further details of main responsibilities of the role is attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Result Areas

1. To have an excellent understanding of primary care digital issues

2. To analyse a project and determine the main stakeholders quickly and accurately.

3. To engage with stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate, and validate complex requirements.

4. To utilise the most appropriate means of gathering business requirements and assimilate those into system or solution requirements.

5. To facilitate the mapping of existing and future business processes

6. To engage and influence clinical staff in the development of effective IT systems and solutions across the health community.

7. Gather requirements using requirements workshops, document analysis, surveys, reviewing current business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.

8. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

9. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to analyse information needs and functional requirements.

10. Present regular updates and project plans to the Project Manager, Head/Deputy Head of Primary Care IT and the Task and Finish Groups, attend regular meetings as required

11. Drive and challenge stakeholders on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.

12. Serve as the conduit between the clinical community (primary and secondary care / private providers) and various project teams to ensure the project delivers the outlined user requirements.

13. Collaborate with members of health community, suppliers and other system experts to establish the system vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.

14. Build and maintain a strong relationship and act as the point of liaison between clinical teams for pathways and referrals.

15. Proactively engage in system user group meetings, facilitating and driving good communication between different stakeholders.

16. Support clinical information sharing between practitioners in a variety of formats, which will support provision of timely interventions to Service Users.

17. To prepare regular progress or highlight reports for the Project Manager, Head of Primary Care IT and the Task and Finish Group or relevant groups and attend regular meetings as required

The detailed Job Description and Person Specification containing further details of main responsibilities of the role is attached.

Person Specification

Knowledge requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge of NHS local and national strategies and policies
  • Excellent report writing and presentation skills
  • Ability to work on a number of concurrent projects with tight deadlines
  • Excellent negotiation and facilitation skills
  • Ability to analyse and resolve complex issues

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent professional qualification

Desirable

  • Project management qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working within complex programmes of work using project management methodologies
  • Experience of stakeholder engagement and change management
  • Presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Planning and organisational abilities within a healthcare environment
  • Able to work under pressure

Desirable

  • Production of Information Strategies/Business Cases/Option Appraisals g
  • Experience of NHS Health Informatics
Person Specification

Knowledge requirements

Essential

  • Knowledge of NHS local and national strategies and policies
  • Excellent report writing and presentation skills
  • Ability to work on a number of concurrent projects with tight deadlines
  • Excellent negotiation and facilitation skills
  • Ability to analyse and resolve complex issues

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent professional qualification

Desirable

  • Project management qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working within complex programmes of work using project management methodologies
  • Experience of stakeholder engagement and change management
  • Presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Planning and organisational abilities within a healthcare environment
  • Able to work under pressure

Desirable

  • Production of Information Strategies/Business Cases/Option Appraisals g
  • Experience of NHS Health Informatics

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Sir John Robinson House

Nottingham

NG5 6DA


Employer's website

https://notts.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Sir John Robinson House

Nottingham

NG5 6DA


Employer's website

https://notts.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Deputy Head of IT/Programme Manager

Monique Peek

monique.peek@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

05 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

111-6746178

Job locations

Sir John Robinson House

Nottingham

NG5 6DA


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