Project Manager

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager within the Health Boards Digital, Data & Technology Directorate, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB).

ABUHB is an integrated, progressive and ambitious teaching and research organisation who are in the midst of delivering a major programme of change to transform healthcare for our patients and citizens.

ABUHB recognises now more than ever, that digital technology has become fundamental to the way we live our lives and to the health and care of our population and through this recognition, have developed the ABUHB Digital Strategy – Transformation through Digital.

The projects you will work on form part of the Technical Delivery project within Digital Community Programme allowing you to build on your current skills and experience and providing opportunities for personal and professional development. As part of the wider technical project delivery the successful candidate will be required to lead on specific tasks such as; Integrating NHS Systems with 3rd party applications and Data Migration ETL processes for which you will need strong technical skills and knowledge.

You will work with a wide range of stakeholders from varying professions across the health board, other NHS and 3rd party organisation/suppliers. This will include a requirement for you to attend sites in person regularly, sometimes at short notice. If you are looking for a new challenge in a prosperous department then this role is for you.

Main duties of the job

This role will be responsible for managing small and medium-sized projects, aligned to PRINCE2 methodology. This roles responsibilities include:

• Delivery of projects including planning, executing, implementing, monitoring, and closing, to the required standard of quality and within the specified time and cost.
• Supporting the implementation of large scale projects with the Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager and Business Change Manager, including task and work package management, risk and issue management, progress reporting and creating and maintaining all project documentation.
• Managing work packages across projects, ensuring deliverables are aligned to requirements and meet the relevant standards, working with third party suppliers and in-house teams, including technical and operational teams to ensure long term processes are in place for management and maintenance of the product / service.
• Provide management, mentoring, support and training as appropriate, including training colleagues, and new staff in the application of the local Project Management Framework and other key documents and, to use various bespoke Microsoft Office 365 applications such as Project and Visio.
• Manage project teams and workstreams to deliver the technical requirements of the project.
• Being responsible for producing a result that can achieve the benefits and performance improvements as defined in the project business case/brief.

This post is Fixed Term for up to 28 months.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.