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Job summary

Main area
Administrative and Clerical
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
10 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
346-CORP-144-24
Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Flatts Lane Centre
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/09/2024 23:59
Interview date
10/10/2024

Employer heading

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust logo

Digital Project Lead

NHS AfC: Band 6

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

It is a really exciting time to join the Digital & Data Department as we are embarking on a large digital transformation programme. 

We currently have an opportunity for a Digital Project Lead  to join the Digital Projects Team on a fixed term basis. 

The post-holder will play a key role in the successful delivery of the Digital Delivery roadmap.  The successful candidate will manage a small project or workstreams within a larger scale project.  Always ensuring their work is in-line with best practice and project methodologies.

The Digital Projects Team is part of the Digital Delivery Section of the Digital & Data Department. The team  delivers projects working towards the Trusts Digital Delivery Roadmap and Frontline Digitisation agenda. 

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have experience in working within a digital projects team previously.  They should  be proactive and flexible with their approach to all tasks, and understand the organisation and coordination needed to lead project workstreams and contribute to the production of project documentation. 

If you are an enthusiastic team player who relishes working in a challenging, exciting environment and one who is willing to engage and contribute fully to the success of the digital roadmap, then this role is for you.

Working for our organisation

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The responsibilities will include:

To project manage one specific IT project or IT work streams which is part of a programme, helping to develop the project/work stream business case and/or scoping and requirements and ensuring that the outputs specified in the scoping are delivered on time and to specification.

To keep the relevant Programme or Project Board aware of progress and risks (escalating as appropriate).

To ensure the Trust’s project management framework is fully utilised and that the planning, monitoring and governance of the project are carried out in line with relevant Trust policies and procedures, raising any concerns to the programme manager in a timely manner.

To establish and sustain effective arrangements to plan, manage and monitor the outputs of any work streams that underpin the project, ensuring that they deliver the required outputs to the agreed specification and deadlines.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to postgraduate diploma level in a relevant subject or equivalent experiential learning
  • Evidence of training in programme or project management principles and techniques (or willingness to achieve within agreed timescale)
  • The Trust’s QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders Certificate (or willing to achieve within agreed timescale)
Desirable criteria
  • Project Management qualification
  • Quality improvement qualification, or evidence of training in quality improvement principles and techniques

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in supporting change initiatives
  • Proven experience in engaging successfully with a range of stakeholders
  • Experience of producing written reports and relating to complex information and data
  • Developing and monitoring project plans or change implementation plans
  • Experience of using influencing and negotiation techniques
  • Experience of producing written reports and relating to complex information and data
  • Experience of presenting complex issues to management in order to trigger a decision
  • Able to make reasoned judgements even when key information is missing or uncertain
  • Use of appropriate communications and coaching techniques to motivate and inspire others to act
  • Experience of participation in a project or working group governing a change initiative
Desirable criteria
  • Line management, motivation and development of staff
  • Experience of developing project scopes, initiation documents and business cases
  • Experience as a formal project manager
  • Experience of using a quality improvement system
  • Experience of leading a change initiative which had to be re-planned after it had started

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Has an awareness of nationally recognised project management systems
  • Specific knowledge required to have credibility with the stakeholders for the project (or an indication from past experience that this can be gained quickly)
  • Understanding of the issues and context underlying the specific programme/projects to be managed (within agreed timescale)
  • Good understanding of the Trust’s Programme/Project Management framework (within agreed timescale)
  • Good understanding of the Trust’s Quality Improvement System (QIS) (within agreed timescale)
  • Awareness of the political and managerial context of the NHS and drivers of reform and change within the NHS
  • Understands coaching tools and how to manage and influence both directly managed staff, peers and more senior staff
  • Understands own strengths and weaknesses and able to seek advice/support accordingly
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of mental health and/or learning disability issues and service
  • Specialist knowledge and understanding of the subject matter of the project(s) to be managed

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Change Management skills
  • Excellent facilitation, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Able to analyse and understand complex information and uncertainties about future risk
  • Able to identify interdependencies and the potential impact of these
Desirable criteria
  • Workshop design and facilitation skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Chantal Britton
Job title
Digital Programme Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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