Band 8a Senior IT Project Manager

Job summary

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham are looking for an experienced senior IT project manager to play a central role in the management and delivery of multiple complex projects. Vacancies have arisen due to investment in the Trust's IT & Digital Transformation programmes. You will be responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of projects to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined, monitored, and achieved within the agreed timescale, cost and quality constraints ensuring readiness for change. As a senior IT project manager, you will be working with the Programme team and will play a key role working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised. You will have effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills. You will also need knowledge and experience of NHS processes and clinical EHR systems and an understanding of the opportunities and benefits that new technologies can provide to clinical workflows and patient outcomes.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The main duties of the job will be as follows:

Facilitate the development of Business Cases and options appraisals.

Day to day management and effective leadership and management control of projects. Setup the appropriate project governance structures/controls. Oversee the transition of the projects through the project lifecycle

Deliver projects to the agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints.

Schedule / manage and deploy resources to deliver the project identifying skills where necessary. May work independently or with a team.

Responsible for identifying, negotiating, agreeing, and managing all expenditure, contracts, budgets and ongoing revenue associated with a project

Identify key stakeholders and develop and maintain effective relationships.

Identify and monitor risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.

Provide programme/project reports and support effective governance and decision making.

Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.

Please see the job description & persons spec attached for more details.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level education or equivalent in ICT related field (E)

PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent experience (E)

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience (including at a senior level within an ICT environment) and educated to Masters level or equivalent (E)

Proven successful delivery of high profile projects (E)

Led large projects (E)

Experienced in a staff management role (E)

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

For help with your application, contact: 

Omer Rashid 

omer.rashid@uhb.nhs.uk 

07766361363