Please note: This vacancy may close early once sufficient applications have been received
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Project Manager to join the Digital Programme Team at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, to help drive forward the Trust’s digital strategy.
We continue to deliver our digital ambitions of providing modern, world-class technologies that support our workforce in delivering the best care possible to our patients.
This is both an exciting and challenging time to join a small dynamic supportive team, where demand on digital technology continues to increase.
Operating at the cutting edge of providing digital technologies that support our clinical colleagues in the delivery of patient care, working alongside an existing core project management team, Senior Managers, Clinicians and Suppliers.
The post holder will be responsible for overseeing individual digital pathway items from the trust's digital roadmap. You should have experience of delivering packages of work within complex projects. You should be educated to degree level or have an equal level of practical experience in project work. You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills to influence and motivate project teams. You should have experience of delivering and reporting on work packages within project/change management programmes, using PRINCE2 Methodology or similar.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition – a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”
The Associate Project Manager will be responsible for the overall management and successful delivery of allocated project(s) within the programme portfolio, to the required quality and standard and will:
Produce collaborative project documentation, including the Project Initiation Document(s) (PID) and project control documents (i.e. Risk and Issue Log). Generate project specific reports at agreed time points in the projects lifetime (Status, Highlight, Exception reports etc).
Be able to perform complex analyses and interpretations to review clinical and project data, including presenting data in a variety of formats, bar charts, statistical process control charts across a range of performance aspects (quality, cost, delivery etc.)
Organise and arrange work packages for projects, being mindful of liaising with others, where appropriate, on inclusion of new ways of working, capacity planning and formulating and adjoining plans with strategies
Ensure project deliverables are met by the project team and these are aligned to the Trusts’ strategic aims
Apply specialist skills and knowledge to react to unplanned situations, for example is able to act quickly to re-align a project plan, as health care environments change daily
Work with relevant leads to identify benefits from improvement activity and that these are reported back through the overall Digital Programme
Plan, develop and implement policies relating to the Digital Strategy, standard work processes and assist in development & delivery of educational/training programmes
Responsible for tracking/monitoring of allocated project budgets
Responsible for own learning and development including identifying any areas of learning that might add to the knowledge base within the Team & its stakeholders.
Lead on surveys and audits using internal and external web based applications in support of project work
Manage and provide professional leadership to Project Team members, including recruitment, performance management and allocating work packages as necessary
Effective communication of projects aims, objectives and benefits, informing progress to all stakeholders, highlighting exceptions and/or risks ensuring mitigating action can be taken to keep the programme on track
Analyse, map and review current state processes & pathways with multidisciplinary teams identifying gaps and supporting business process change and service improvement.
Schedule and lead project team meetings, pulling in specialists (Finance, IT, etc.) as necessary, attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings with managers within designated areas within the Trust
active involvement in target setting, policy development and monitoring for improvement of performance in project area – could be Trust-wide
