Job summary
- Main area
- iDigital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-COR-25-7164344
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Childrens Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Digital Project Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available within Alder Hey Digital Projects Team. We are looking for a talented, highly motivated Senior Project Manager to work at Alder Hey to provide support on the various projects outlined in the digital strategy.
Main duties of the job
To project manage the successful delivery of large scale, complex
projects within a range of Digital Programmes underway in the Trust. To plan, support, facilitate and monitor progress across agreed projects. Ensure that project outcomes and benefits are achieved in conjunction with the project sponsor.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of large scale, complex IT projects and changes as part Create robust written project plans for the implementation of complex, large scale IM&T projects
- Capture and document business requirements clearly so that technical solutions can be developed to meet desired outcomes
- Create impact analysis reports that will inform the change process
- Creation of communication plans to ensure all stakeholders are kept informed throughout the duration of any projects/ changes
- Coordinate the production and distribution of technical specifications and related
documentation - Production and maintenance of resource plans that will be used throughout the duration of each project or change
- Coordination of test plans to ensure successful testing outcomes
- Management of third-party supplier contributions to individual projects and changes
- Management of project and change related risks and issues ensuring
successful outcomes - Management of individual project budgets monitoring the expenditure and costs against benefits realised
- Establishing clear Benefits Realisation plans and subsequently ensuring these are monitored, tracked and reported to the relevant stakeholders.
- Creation of work packages for delivery of tasks by technical teams
- Production of highlight reports
- Maintenance of RAG status reports for all projects and changes on portfolio
- Monitor progress and report exceptions to the Programme Manager and relevant parties
- Leads projects and influences others to achieve project outcomes. Includes leading work streams, allocating/delegating of work and holding project teams to account
- Responsible for setting up IT systems to track and monitor project activity. This includes both project management toolsets which will feed into the overall programme management agenda.
- Carry out research and keep abreast of new and emerging technologies
- Carry out audits to ensure specified requirements of customers are met through each project
- Manage Project Managers within the team and coordinate their work
Communication:
- Communicate with a range of senior stakeholders providing
recommendations, factual and evidenced based views in relation to complex projects/plans. - Facilitate collaborative working between senior managers in a number of departments/organisations in order to achieve project objectives; this will require developed negotiation and motivation skills to deal with highly complex and highly contentious information.
- Present information in a variety of ways to both large groups as well as on a 1:1 basis.
Analytical skills:
- Analyse complex performance data and trends in order to assess and
interpret the impact on project plans. - Determine how potential conflicting information will affect project priorities
Planning and organising skills:
- Work within broad professional policies, advises without reference to manager
- Freedom to achieve agreed objectives in own way
- Acts as a lead specialist in own area
- Manages own work independently
- Operate in a highly complex technical environment, have a strong
understanding of a wide range of technologies involved - Capability for project planning, complex document production, research and a high technical IT competence
Responsibility for human resources:
- Management of IM&T Project Manager roles within the team
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working in project delivery.
- Project Management Qualification
- Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of IM&T project change and delivery
- Experience of appropriate project management methodology (e.g. Prince2)
- Formal delivery planning using Gantt charts or similar
- Extensive demonstrable experience of leading a high performing project / programme team.
- Experience of completing complex project plans and supporting documentation such as risk and issue logs, lessons learnt and communication plans.
- Proven ability to negotiate and motivate teams, including SMEs, to ensure project delivery.
- Supervisory experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within the NHS
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of NHS Information Governance principles
- Knowledge of current legislation such as Confidentiality, Freedom of Information, Data Protection Act and Caldicott
- Extensive IT systems knowledge
- Organisational strategy
Desirable criteria
- Clinical systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Clear communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills
- Ability to construct and deliver insightful, clear information/ instructions to a broad range of stakeholders at all levels
- Proven relationship management skills, able to build and maintain positive and productive relationships across a range of stakeholders
- Ability to process complex information and determine course of action to take
- Ability to identify issues, anticipate risks and create solutions to ensure project delivery
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines
- Able to respond quickly and professionally to new issues in short time frames
- • Confident in the use of the Microsoft TM Office toolset email, web browsers and project management tools
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly motivated and able to work on own initiative
- Adaptable and flexible approach to duties to meet deadlines
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
- Encouraging and engaging
- Strong leadership traits
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melissa Royle
- Job title
- Digital Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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