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Job summary

Main area
Project Management
Grade
Band 7
Contract
12 months (Offered on a fixed term or secondment basis)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-CEF-518-24-B
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Innovation Park
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Project Manager

Band 7

Job overview

An exciting 12 month fixed term or secondment opportunity has arisen for a  Senior Digital Project Manager to join our EPR Programme team.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a once in a generation opportunity to transform how care is delivered for our patients. We are a front line digitisation trail blazer on the national EPR programme. 

Experience of delivering complex IT and infrastructure projects, focusing primarily on infrastructure. Strong knowledge of technical workstreams, including integration, infrastructure and networking is a key element of this role.

Together we will underpin the care that our hospitals provide with a robust digital infrastructure, comprehensive suite of digital solutions and a wealth of digital intelligence.  Our digital strategy clearly sets out our great ambition, which delivers a progressive and cohesive portfolio of digital solutions to front-line staff.

Main duties of the job

The EPR Programme comprises a multidisciplinary team of professional staff concerned with driving forward our ambition of having a fully integrated EPR solution by 2027. The aim of the service is to be ‘The Best Digital Service in the NHS’ and the Post Holder is required to contribute to this competence.

Reporting directly to the EPR Principal Digital Programme Manager, the Post Holder will focus on the delivery of our EPR Programme’s Digital projects with knowledge of every aspect of the project lifecycle.

The Post Holder will be part of an integrated project team and provide Project Management leadership and expert advice to Project Boards, Project Managers and Project teams throughout the organisation to ensure that best practice, standards, tools, and techniques are in place.

The Post Holder will be expected to travel to site across LUHFT working collaboratively with both clinical and non- clinical teams.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. 

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide project management expertise and advice within in the Directorate/organisation

Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.

Oversee the successful delivery of a number of projects managed by members of the wider project team.

Ensure that all projects are managed in accordance with PRINCE2 Project
Management standards.

Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.

Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.

For full details, please refer to attached JD

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree or equivalent
  • Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects
Desirable criteria
  • ITL Foundation qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
  • Experience of managing a team
  • Substantial experience of using specialist MS Office applications
  • Working will colleagues at all levels including clinicians
  • Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
  • Teaching and presentation skills
  • Experience of affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
  • Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a NHS environment
  • A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Specialist knowledge and indepth substantial experience of working in a project environment

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly senstive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
  • Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
  • Ability to present project management techniques and tools
  • Ability to discuss project management technical details with non technical users
  • Ability to deliver presentations to a large audience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardTrust IDVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Carer confident logo, the employers for carers confident schemeDisability confident committedStep into health

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natasha Odita
Job title
EPR Principal Digital Programme Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 706 2000

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