Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Projects
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 335-A-1845
- Employer
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beechdale Ambulance Station
- Town
- Beechdale Road
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Digital Project Manager (Permanent)
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
As Digital Project Manager, you will drive the management and delivery of multiple digital projects, ensuring they are planned, resourced, and successfully delivered. Reporting to the Digital Transformation Programme Manager, you will collaborate with stakeholders, lead project delivery, and play an integral role in delivering the Trust’s digital strategy.
This role offers a chance to develop and refine your project management skills, from risk analysis and budgeting to stakeholder engagement. You will be integral in ensuring the seamless transition of projects into operational support, championing best practice and driving forward digital innovation across the trust.
Working within a supportive NHS environment, you will have opportunities for professional development and play a vital part in enhancing patient care through innovative digital solutions.
Main duties of the job
As Digital Project Manager, you will shape the successful delivery of multiple Digital Services projects, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and recognised project methodologies.
You will lead the creation of essential documentation, including business cases, Project Initiation Documents, and risk and issue logs, guiding teams to stay on track, within budget, and focused on measurable benefits. Communication will be key, as you collaborate with stakeholders across the Trust, provide clear project updates, and act as a trusted adviser on best practice and governance structures.
You will oversee the effective assignment of resources and tasks, offering direction and support to project teams as they navigate complex technical challenges. By embedding consistent standards and compliance with change management processes, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement in project delivery. With your guidance, lessons learned will be captured, shared, and used to refine future approaches, reinforcing a cycle of ongoing development.
This role will see you cultivate robust partnerships, champion collaboration, and enable robust management of projects. You will ensure that projects deliver tangible outcomes to support EMAS’s strategic outcomes.
Working for our organisation
The projects team in Digital Services at EMAS is responsible for delivery of the organisation’s portfolio of digitally enabled projects. The key outcomes of the projects team are to successfully deliver projects across scope, time, budget, and quality constraints, supporting cross functional working, and providing visibility across all phases of the projects.
Working closely with Digital PMO, the projects team ensures that projects/programmes are delivered collaboratively, maintaining consistency of delivery, and sharing of best practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further details on the role requirements can be found on the attached Job Description/person specification
Person specification
Qualifications Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Degree in an associated IT/business subject or equivalent learning and experience. Prince 2 Practitioner qualified or equivalent learning and experience of a similar project methodology.
Desirable criteria
- ITIL qualification Post graduate training in associated project management subject
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive wide-ranging experience of project / programme management Experience of line management including appraisals and grievances Proven track record showing significant project delivery experience (including PRINCE or similar project methodology). Experience of running complex projects within a healthcare environment. Experience of delivering simultaneous projects with significant financial value Experience of managing project budgets Experience of managing and leading teams, chairing and facilitating meetings and acting as a motivator and communicator
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a senior project management role within the NHS Experience of running complex Digital Services projects.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of NHS organisations and information requirements. Awareness of the business case process. Knowledge of budgetary management. Awareness of risk analysis and management Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications Able to present highly complex technical issues to a non-technical audience via various media Excellent interpersonal skills Experienced technical/specification writing skills
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Information Governance requirements and how they impact on project delivery Experienced budget holder
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate, engage, influence and motivate teams Able to use judgement and negotiate on contentious issues with conflicting priorities Able to work under intense pressure and make informative decisions in a reactive environment Able to work independently at all times Standard keyboard skills Must be able to travel independently to trust locations across the East Midlands.
Desirable criteria
- Experienced budget holder
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vanessa Stutt
- Job title
- Digital Transformation Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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