Associate Project Manager

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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