# Digital Project Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/digital-project-manager/6ddd7d9f-4029-4bc7-b615-3080606f6b20 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/digital-project-manager/6ddd7d9f-4029-4bc7-b615-3080606f6b20.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Project manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** 18 months (18 Fixed Term Contract) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-16T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-02T08:21:38.402Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Blackpool/East_Lancashire_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Digital/Digital-v8151843 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8151843?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elht.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Digital Project Manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of Digital projects under their management on behalf of the relevant Project Board and within the constraints laid down by the board. The Digital Project Manager is responsible for the ensuring that appropriate planning, resourcing and deployment activities are undertaken to ensure safe and timely implementation of relevant projects within the Trust’s Head of Digital Developments Programme to support the Trust’s strategic objectives. This will include the management of projects that facilitate full interfacing/integration with existing clinical systems and/or the replacement of these systems where appropriate. The post holder will use recognised project management tools and techniques e.g. PRINCE2 to ensure that projects are delivered on time and to budget with expected outcomes monitored and achieved. The use of detailed implementation plans and other associated project products e.g. workstream checkpoint reports, risks and issues logs, will be required to aide this. The Project Manager’s prime responsibility is to ensure that projects meet the requirements of the clinical services, to the necessary standards of quality, and within the specified constraints of time and cost. The Digital Project Manager is also responsible for the project achieving the benefits defined in the business case. ### Main duties of the job 1.Produce and revise all project documentation including Detailed Implementation Plans(DIP) that cover the overall timeframe of relevant projects within the programme;addressing specific periods of key activities (e.g. go live planning). 2.Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively. 3.Plan and allocate resources to projects, from both within and outside the project team.This will require cross-departmental working and negotiation across various departments and organisations. 4.Critically evaluate the quality of project plans and the organisational capability and capacity to achieve the planned outcomes. 5.Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between other programmes/projects. 6.Monitor overall progress of projects on a day-to-day basis, resolving issues and initiating decisive and corrective action, including escalation, as appropriate. 7.Identify and mitigate any project risks ensuring that the minimum number of risks become issues, to include the provision of a comprehensive Risk log. 8.Manage identified issues within the project risks ensuring that each issue has an owner and corrective action is being undertaken, to include the provision of a comprehensive issue log. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Internal - Project Executives, including Executive Directors. - Programme Directors - Deputy Directors of Operations (DDOPs) - Divisional and Clinical Directors - Directorate Managers - Clinical and Administrative staff. - Project Managers - Head of ICT Developments Departments; Information Governance, Information Communications Technology, Information Management. Finance Department - Procurement Department External - System suppliers - Local and National Healthcare institutions, NHS and non NHS. - Non Healthcare organisations ## Person Specification ### SKILLS AND ABILITY **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to liaise effectively with senior personnel and multi-disciplinary teams, in both the NHS and private sector - Is innovative and able to contribute to service development - Self-motivated with the ability to work well under pressure and to deadlines - Experience of using project management software to detail and track progress - Experience of using risk management tools and techniques - Ability to manage multiple projects to a successful conclusion - Excellent oral and written communications - Ability to manage multiple competing priorities at any one time and be responsive and receptive to change - Ability to understand, analyse and interpret complex business issues and facilitate a resolution - Self-motivated, proactive and innovative with a ‘can do’ attitude - Procedural knowledge of project management processes and associated documents and ensure best practice is adhered to ### EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE **Essential** - Experience of managing staff - Experience in successfully managing multiple complex projects in a Health Informatics setting - Experience of NHS computing - Experience of dealing with clinical suppliers **Desirable** - Experience of managing teams within the software development lifecycle - Experience of business process re-engineering and change management - Experience of working across organisations and with other agencies - Experience of budget management ### EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - Educated to degree level in relevant discipline or equivalent experience - Project Management qualification at Practitioner Level e.g. PRINCE2 ### Project Management Expereince **Essential** - Years experience **Desirable** - Project Management accreditation ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 305.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1761) - [digital project manager (pdf, 573.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10451609) - [benefits of working at elht (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2405) - [additional candidate information 2024 (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2494) - [digital project manager - person specification (pdf, 232.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10451610) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.