Job overview
Velindre University NHS Trust (VUNHST) has two core divisions: the Welsh Blood Service and Velindre Cancer Centre. Digital Services supports daily operations and delivers key transformation projects across the Trust. Digital, Data and Technology services are essential to modern healthcare and enable the Trust’s strategic ambitions.
Velindre is committed to modernising healthcare through innovative information technologies. These improve decision-making, support effective information sharing, enhance patient and donor choice, and enable care closer to home, leading to better outcomes for patients, donors and their families.
An ambitious individual is required to provide high-quality project support within Digital Services, ensuring successful delivery of digital projects.
The Digital Project Support Manager will lead projects or work packages of low to moderate complexity, ensuring delivery within agreed time, cost and quality standards. They will support achievement of defined project benefits.
The role includes managing the Digital Project Support Officer and supporting Project Managers to deliver national systems such as WPAS and ePMA, aligned with the NHS Wales digital strategy.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of the Project Support Manager will be drawn from all or some of the following (depending upon the project being worked on):
- To work as part of the Digital Programmes Team and be responsible for managing your own Digital projects, with the support of a Digital Portfolio Project Manager
- To be actively involved in the setting of the operational, technical and strategic objectives of the project
- Identify and reconcile key stakeholder interests in the project
- Understand and clarify the project scope and definition of work products in order to plan effectively
- Identify, assess and prioritise risk associated with the project
- Assess project feasibility and negotiate necessary amendments with the Digital Portfolio Project Manager
- Run the day to day tasks of those projects to provide successful outcomes as defined in the scope and benefits documentation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post is a fixed term/secondment for 21 months until 31st March 2028 due to funding. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
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This advert is for Digital Project Support Manager with Velindre University NHS Trust in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. It is listed as a Band 6 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £40,559 - £48,841 per annum. The contract type is 21 months (Fixed term until 31st March 2028. Hybrid: A minimum of 2-3 days on site each week, across all Trust locations. Increasing at key times, to meet the requirements of this role.). The application deadline is 24 Jun 2026.
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