Digital Project Manager | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Overview

The Digital Project Manager will specifically be working on a project regarding the development and implementation of the workforce data standards service. This service will be responsible for improving workforce data to support operational issues across the NHS at local, regional and national levels. It will lead the update to the national workforce dataset and contribute to the development of the workforce section of the canonical data model. The aim is to reduce the burden on NHS organisations by consolidating and minimising workforce data collection requirements wherever possible.

Responsibilities

• Produce a Project Initiation Document (PID), Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) that covers the overall timeframe of the programme, with more detailed, sub‑DIPs to address specific periods of key activities (e.g. go live planning).
• Plan and allocate resources to projects, from both within and outside the project team, requiring cross‑departmental working and negotiation across various departments and organisations.
• Define and issue all work packages ensuring they are delivered in accordance within project timescales, cost, scope and quality.
• Critically evaluate the quality of project plans and the organisational capability and capacity to achieve the planned outcomes.
• Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between other programmes/projects.
• Monitor overall progress against the DIP on a day‑to‑day basis, resolving issues and initiating decisive and corrective action as appropriate.
• Identify and mitigate any project risks ensuring that the minimum number of risks become issues, to include the provision of a comprehensive Risk log.
• Provide direct support to the project/workstream leads and take immediate and decisive action where the project/workstreams are failing to meet key milestones or targeted levels of improvement.
• Ensure that the delivery of new products or services from the Trust’s chosen provider(s) meets the requirements of the clinical services, to the necessary standards of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
• Ensure that the various work streams complete tasks to the appropriate levels of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost, in accordance with the project plan and governance arrangements.
• Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively.
• Maintain a comprehensive performance and reporting framework with which to keep the Project Executive, Project Board fully appraised of progress against the project plan, including a summary of any key risks to delivery and actions taken to mitigate those risks.
• Understand the critical path of projects and the overall programme and make decisions regarding any necessary escalation to the Digital Programme Director.
• Confidently and accurately run budgets for allocated projects so that the overall Digital Programme budget function is successful. Within this the Project Manager will proactively monitor expenditure and costs against deployment plans.
• Manage the dialogue and negotiations, including financial and operational matters, between the Trust and third party suppliers as appropriate.
• Act as the primary contact between the Trust and its chosen providers for the implementation of Health Informatics projects.
• Provide expert advice to clinical and operational leaders regarding necessary changes to working practices as part of the implementation of Health Informatics projects.
• Provide expert advice to clinical and operational leaders regarding the suitability and viability of existing and proposed electronic clinical systems.
• Manage effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Proactively engage with staff at all levels and in all professional groups as appropriate, communicating complex and emotive ideas, negotiating and influencing the changes to deliver the identified benefits.
• Ensure that all complex technical information is translated appropriately and conveyed to work stream leads and clinical services in a non‑technical, understandable manner.
• Act in an advisory role to key decision making forums, providing recommendations.

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