Job summary
- Main area
- Project Management
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (Fixed Until February 2027 / 18 months from start date. Hybrid: A minimum of 2-3 days on site each week, across all Trust locations. Increasing at key times, to meet the requirements of this role.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 120-AC818-0825
- Employer
- Velindre University NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Velindre NHS Trust
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £48,527 - £55,532 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Portfolio Project Manager
Band 7
Job overview
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM FOR UPTO 18 MONTHS (27/02/2027) DUE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE
Passionate about how digital can transform healthcare, for our donors, patients and colleagues? Do you seek that once in a career opportunity to put everything you have learned to the test? Are you excited by identifying and implementing new digital technologies? We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Portfolio Project Manager to join the Digital Programmes team for 18 months and play a significant role in the Digital workstream of the new Velindre Cancer Centre (nVCC) project.
We have an ambitious Digital Strategy that underpins the digital solutions used to support the opening of our new world class environmentally sustainable cancer centre. Our new home will extend and enhance specialist cancer treatment and supports the delivery of cancer care closer to home at our regional sites.
You will utilise your previous project management experience to deliver critical new and innovative digital systems as part of the nVCC programme, to ensure the alignment of resources and coordination of activities and requirements required are aligned with project timescales and requirements.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for supporting a portfolio of complex clinical and digital projects.
Provide project management support to the Programme Manager, identifying resources/skillset required from the Digital Services department.
Assist Digital colleagues in providing accurate timescales for work to be undertaken so this can be accurately reflected in project plans and inform go-live / project implementation dates.
Work with the Programme Manager to inform the allocation of project resources.
Manage all project plans and be responsible for the updating of plans and all project related documentation.
Provide peer support, guidance and training for project teams and staff throughout the project lifecycle, using agreed project documentation.
Supervise project team staff and work collaboratively with wider project colleagues, across the Trust.
Assist the Digital Programme Team in continually developing both agile and waterfall project management methodologies across the Digital Programme and major programmes, Trust-wide.
Monitor project budgets during the life of the project and ensure alignment with approved expenditure and/or authorised business case as required.
You must be an outstanding communicator and effective negotiator, with excellent project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Working for our organisation
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Find out more about our Digital Strategy:
N.B The appointing manager reserves the right to close this vacancy early, subject to high volume of relevant applications submitted. Please apply early.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters or equivalent professional / managerial qualification
- PRINCE 2 registered Practitioner or other recognised qualification in project management
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development / further training
- Evidence of developed practical project management skills
- Microsoft Office
- Developing internal project documents (e.g. PID, exception reports etc)
- Developing Performance indicators
- Principles of formal project management
- Information governance and security guidance
- Evidence of experience in managing complex projects
Desirable criteria
- Member of recognised professional body
- MSP Practitioner
- Microsoft Project
- ECDL
- Developing business cases / strategic documents.
- Principles of programme management and benefits realisation
- Knowledge of NHS structures and processes.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in delivering projects to quality, time and budget requirements, preferably within a change programme environment
- Experience of designing, implementing and managing projects
- Good working knowledge of ICT, project management and management information tools.
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams at varying levels of seniority
- Involvement in complex and large-scale projects
- Management of project budgets
- Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
- Successful introduction of project management methodologies to inexperienced teams and individuals
- Effective management of resources
- Experience in delivering projects to quality, time and budget requirements, preferably within a change programme environment
- Experience of designing, implementing and managing projects
- Involvement in complex and large-scale projects.
- Management of project budgets.
- Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
- Solid understanding and appreciation of project finances and risk and benefits realisation
- Effective management of resources
- Effective management of resources
- Excellent overall management and organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences in a variety of ways
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive progress forward and a concern for results and achieving goals
- Sets high standards of performance and seeks to improve previous performance levels
- Detailed knowledge of budgeting, benefits tracking and resource allocation procedures
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- Ability to think clearly, reach decisions, prioritise and recommend appropriate action through the assessment of relevant information
- Ability to produce business cases and strategic documents
- Able to confidently and effectively chair meetings
- Be technically competent with various software programmes (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio)
- Required to work on own initiative.
- Be flexible to the needs of the service during times of change.
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience of working within a project / programme environment
- Experience of working within ICT projects.
- NHS working procedures and practices.
- Ability to adapt and deal with situations and manage expectations during periods of change and be able to take account of the broader perspective and how it affects other areas.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner and confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to instigate and achieve change and improvement
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills including facilitation, negotiation, obtaining, providing and presenting information
- Ability to manage expectations
- Ability to prepare and present reports to management teams on project status and advising on issues and risks to detailed specifications for Trust and others as requested
- Ability to demonstrate or gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of systems of health and social care and the constituent elements of the care system
- First class planning and organisation skills
- Considerable amount of time working with a VDU and keyboard.
- Compliance with Trust policies and procedures.
- Occasional exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances (i.e. stakeholders).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elin Griffiths
- Job title
- Head of Digital Programmes
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Ian Taylor
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