Project Manager - Digital Transformation

Gloucestershire Health and Care; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK seeks a full-time Project Manager for a fixed term contract to lead digital transformation initiatives. The role involves managing project teams, optimizing digital systems, and supporting performance improvements across the Trust. Ideal candidates will possess strong planning, analytical, and communication skills, coupled with experience in budget management. This position offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to service enhancements within a well-respected healthcare trust.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex digital projects.
• Ability to work collaboratively with operational staff.
• Skills in budget management and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver digital system and service optimisations.
• Formulate and adjust project plans and strategies.
• Monitor project and business development aspects.

Skills

Planning

Negotiating

Analytical skills

Communication

Job description

1x fixed term contract for up to 12 months - full time hours 37.5 per week.

Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment.

Management of the delivery of Transforming Care Digitally projects working with clinical, operational, clinical system and digital teams to improve care pathways across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The Project Manager will convene and manage project teams and provide project management support to the operational and business leads within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to enable the delivery of the Trust’s strategy on Digital Transformation.

To deliver Digital system and service optimisations to support service improvements in line with local strategies and government initiatives which will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Digital system and service optimisations to support service improvements in line with local strategies and government initiatives which will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.
• Support performance improvements across the organisation as required.
• Formulate, develop and adjust project plans and strategies to be delivered via FBC and PID.
• Plan and organise a broad range of complex activities using best practice project management tools and techniques.
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; agreement or co-operation required; present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to groups.
• Plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning.
• Work collaboratively with operational service staff to ensure their involvement in the development of services.
• Monitor all aspects of project and business development and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken and acted upon.
• Ensure that workforce development issues are considered and managed within the business and project development.
• Ensure that Business As Usual (BAU) Transition, Information Governance and Cyber documentation and agreements are in place prior to go live.
• Effectively and efficiently manage budgets in accordance with standing financial instructions.
• Analyse facts or situations and develop options and mitigations for consideration.
• Be responsible for ensuring the identification, delivery and monitoring including transition to BAU of project Benefits.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Collins-Mills Job title: Head of Digital Transformation Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0300 421 8100