Job vacancy: Digital Project Manager, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth

Job summary

Main area: Project Management
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: 6 months (Fixed Term, Mon-Fri 0900-1700)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
Job ref: 216-AM-A7342008

Employer: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Plymouth Science park, Derriford
Town: Plymouth
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/08/2025 23:59

Digital Project Manager

NHS AfC: Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role will require the post holder to rapidly understand a project requirement and translate that into tanglible deliverables at pace to maintan a delivery cadence within a large programme. This will involve, but is not llimited to

Managing and delivering complex projects and project stages with conflicting and competing pressures on the workload and team including dealing with the mixed expectations of customers.

Ensuring suppliers meet agreed targets and milestones for deliverables.

The role will require a high degree of communications skills, particularly the ability to gain credibility and confidence of multidisciplinary staff form clinical and non-clinical teams, and across multiple different Trusts.

Comprehensive details of the responsibilities and expectations within this role are contained within the Job Description candidate pack - for more details please review this document in the first instance.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

Proven successful structured project management skills/experience including demonstrable experience in managing change and leadership of project teams.
Relevant demonstrable experience in health service or other major large-scale customer service oriented organisation.
Proven demonstrable experience in organising and prioritising multiple tasks and workloads and meeting deadlines
Able to understand and create project budgets and manage project expenditure. Practical proven knowledge of Project Management procedures (PRINCE 2)

Desirable criteria

Health information demonstrable experience
Demonstrable experience of service change management / business transformation

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to Degree level or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable work gained experience
Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent demonstrable work gained experience

Desirable criteria

PRINCE 2 Practitioner
General management

Aptitude & Abilities

Essential criteria

Demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Project
Excellent verbal, including strong presentation skills, written and interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY INCLUDING YOUR JUNK FOLDER.

If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.

We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.

We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.

Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

For Doctors Roles:

Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details
University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.

We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.

Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.

In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.