Senior Project Manager

Job overview

An exciting 12 month fixed term or secondment opportunity has arisen for a  Senior Digital Project Manager to join our EPR Programme team.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a once in a generation opportunity to transform how care is delivered for our patients. We are a front line digitisation trail blazer on the national EPR programme.

Experience of delivering complex IT and infrastructure projects, focusing primarily on infrastructure. Strong knowledge of technical workstreams, including integration, infrastructure and networking is a key element of this role.

Together we will underpin the care that our hospitals provide with a robust digital infrastructure, comprehensive suite of digital solutions and a wealth of digital intelligence.  Our digital strategy clearly sets out our great ambition, which delivers a progressive and cohesive portfolio of digital solutions to front-line staff.

Main duties of the job

The EPR Programme comprises a multidisciplinary team of professional staff concerned with driving forward our ambition of having a fully integrated EPR solution by 2027. The aim of the service is to be ‘The Best Digital Service in the NHS’ and the Post Holder is required to contribute to this competence.

Reporting directly to the EPR Principal Digital Programme Manager, the Post Holder will focus on the delivery of our EPR Programme’s Digital projects with knowledge of every aspect of the project lifecycle.

The Post Holder will be part of an integrated project team and provide Project Management leadership and expert advice to Project Boards, Project Managers and Project teams throughout the organisation to ensure that best practice, standards, tools, and techniques are in place.

The Post Holder will be expected to travel to site across LUHFT working collaboratively with both clinical and non- clinical teams.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide project management expertise and advice within in the Directorate/organisation

Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.

Oversee the successful delivery of a number of projects managed by members of the wider project team.

Ensure that all projects are managed in accordance with PRINCE2 Project Management standards.

Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.

Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.

To analyse and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, which requires the analysis

interpretation and comparison of a range of options and decide how resources are to be used. Including within this is the management of key interdependencies with other projects.

Be responsible for developing and tracking the progress of project plans,  including resource planning, using approved software.

Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the programme governance.

To identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s), including the development and implementation of contingency plans.

Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronised with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plans

Ensure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the project

Ensure that appropriate plans, documentation and procedures are in places when handing a project over to business as usual as part of project closure.

Where required, to work with other managers and attend meetings with other organisations, to discuss project priorities and progress.

To make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programmes/projects and to demonstrate systems to users when necessary.

Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate.

The postholder will be required to contribute to the development and implementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the Directorate

The postholder will be required to monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and action taken to resolve situations and to achieve progress.

The postholder will liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues .

The post holder will work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional policies.

Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate.

Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work.

Dedicate the required concentration required to collate, analyse, check and