Job requirements
Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Essential
Experience of managing complex digital infrastructure project(s), such as networking, server and hosting, cyber security or client endpoint programmes
- Essential
Experience of delivering technical infrastructure projects (for example network, data centre or cloud hosting, cyber security or end-user device) working closely with technical architects and engineers.
- Essential
Understanding of cyber security principles and of information security accreditation and assurance frameworks (for example Cyber Essentials Plus, Data Security and Protection Toolkit, ISO 27001).
- Experience
Experience of managing complex digital project(s)
- Experience
Experience of using programme and project management approaches such as PRINCE2 and/ or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
- Experience
Specialist knowledge of project management standards and principles and the ability to apply and explain them in non-routine situations to senior managers and clinicians
- Experience
Experience of managing budgets or finances associated with a Programme/Project/ Team
- Experience
Experience of analysing, interpreting, and presenting data
- Experience
Experience of producing project/ programme status and update reports
- Experience
Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams at varying levels of seniority and a commitment to partnership working
- Experience
Experience of managing stakeholders up to and including Executive level, sometimes with strong competing views, to build and gain consensus to enable decisions to be progressed to boards for approval
- Experience
Experience of developing, tracking and managing both risks and issues within projects
- Experience
Experience of developing benefits profiles and managing programme and project benefits through the project lifecycle
- Experience
Experience of business process improvement
- Experience
Establishing, preparing for, running programme and project boards
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Are you an experienced project manager with a passion for delivering digital change that improves care? Join Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and play a key role in delivering digital transformation that makes a difference to people who use our services and the teams supporting them.
Reporting to the Head of Digital PMO, you will lead complex digital programmes and projects from initial planning through to implementation, benefits realisation and handover to business as usual. This includes our SystmOne electronic patient record optimisation programme, working closely with clinical, operational and digital colleagues across organisational boundaries.
You will bring strong project management, stakeholder engagement and leadership skills, with experience of managing budgets, risks, dependencies and governance. Crucially, you will ensure digital investment translates into measurable clinical, operational, workforce and financial benefits.
We are looking for a proactive, collaborative and adaptable individual who can build effective relationships, navigate competing priorities and maintain a clear focus on delivery. The role requires travel across the Trust, including on-site attendance at least once a month and for workshops as required.
Main duties of the job
Suitable for someone who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and proactive to improve the care we deliver to people who use our services. Suitable for someone who has experience of managing digital projects in a complex organisation, working across organisational boundaries to ensure patient (customer), staff, quality, financial and efficiency benefits are defined and delivered. Suitable for someone who is effective in leading and working with project teams working across organisational and professional boundaries with a proven track record of delivering objectives on time and within budget. Suitable for someone with adaptability/ flexibility to work in a changing environment. Someone who can be a good team player and lead who is able to interact effectively to build and sustain effective relationships with clinicians and a multi-professional workforce.
Suitable for someone who has the technical credibility to work effectively with network, server, cyber security and endpoint specialists, and who can translate technical delivery into clear messages for senior managers and clinicians.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job description attached on TRAC for details on the main responsibilities of this role.
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This advert is for Senior Project Manager (Digital Infrastructure) with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Leatherhead, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Project manager role. The advertised salary is £59,798 - £67,020 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Nov 2026.
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