Are you an experienced Digital Project Manager looking to make a real impact in healthcare? Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a skilled professional to drive innovative digital projects that improve patient care and operational efficiency. This role offers a Certificate of Sponsorship, making it an excellent opportunity for international candidates.
The ideal candidate will have evidence of training in Programme or Project Management principles and techniques, along with strong change management skills and excellent presentation abilities. The Digital Project Manager will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to implement digital solutions that align with the Trust’s strategic goals.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of digital healthcare within the NHS. Apply today to be part of this transformation.
About the Trust
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is the Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Trust serving County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York, and Selby.
From education and prevention to crisis intervention and specialist care, the Trust’s compassionate and skilled teams work in collaboration with patients, communities, and partners to ensure individuals feel safe, understood, supported, and cared for.
The Trust is dedicated to nurturing the recovery journey of everyone in need, ensuring every individual has a voice in how they are supported and treated. By actively listening, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust empowers patients, families, and carers to work together toward better mental health outcomes.
With a commitment to innovation and partnership, the Trust strives to enhance the wellbeing of the region, delivering tailored mental health care where it is most needed. Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is steadfast in its mission to ensure everyone in its region has access to the mental health care they need to live their best possible life.
Position: Digital Project Manager
Salary: £46,148 – £52,809 a year
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Middlesbrough
About the Role
Digital and Data Services have a large digital roadmap of works to be delivered in the coming years, and we currently have an opportunity for a Digital Project Manager to join the Digital Projects Team and work on the delivery of this programme.
The Digital Projects Team is part of the Digital Delivery Section of Digital and Data Services. The team delivers projects working towards achieving the Trusts Digital roadmap and ensuring our digital offering continues to build to support the organisation to deliver excellent patient care.
The successful candidate will work with colleagues and partners to deliver a number of projects across the roadmap which covers our Electronic Patient Record products, Corporate Systems and our Technology functions. This will be done by managing projects through ensuring their work is in-line with best practice and project methodologies.
The ideal candidate will be experienced in managing multiple digital projects. They should have an eye for detail and be proactive and flexible with their approach to all tasks, be able to produce clear concise project documentation and have excellent communication and negotiation skills. The ideal candidate will have experience of working on projects regarding system implementations from procurement through to hand over to operational services and also Technical projects that require a level of technical understanding to liaise with suppliers and ensure that project deliverables meet requirements.
Main Duties:
- Keeping the relevant IT Programme Leads or Project Board and/or Governance Boards and/or Trust Senior Leadership Group aware of progress and risks (escalating as appropriate).
- Ensuring the Trusts project management framework is fully utilised and that the planning, monitoring and governance of the project are carried out in line with relevant Trust policies and procedures, raising any concerns to senior management level in a timely manner.
- Establishing and sustaining effective arrangements to plan, manage and monitor the outputs of any work streams that underpin the project, ensuring that they deliver the required outputs to the agreed specification and deadlines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to postgraduate diploma level in a relevant subject or equivalent experiential learning
- Evidence of training in Programme or Project Management principles and techniques
- The Trust’s QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders Certificate (or willing to achieve within agreed timescale)
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
- Quality improvement qualification, or evidence of training in quality improvement principles and techniques
Experience
Essential
- Experience in supporting significant change initiatives in IT or Health Informatics
- Developing and monitoring complex programme or project plans, including project scopes, initiation documents and business cases
- Proven experience in engaging successfully with a range of stakeholders to elicit requirements
- Experience of using influencing and negotiation techniques
- Experience of producing written reports and relating to complex information and data
- Experience of presenting complex issues to senior management in order to trigger a decision
- Able to make reasoned judgements even when key information is missing or uncertain
- Use of appropriate communications and coaching techniques to motivate and inspire others to act
Desirable
- Experience of formal project management a part of a programme
- Experience of using a quality improvement system
Knowledge
Essential
- Has understanding of nationally recognised project management systems
- Understanding of the issues and context underlying the specific programme/projects to be managed
- Good understanding of the Trust’s Programme/Project Management framework (within agreed timescale)
- Good understanding of the Trust’s Quality Improvement System (QIS) (within agreed timescale)
- Understanding of the digital, political, and managerial context of the NHS and drivers of reform and change within the NHS
- Specific managerial knowledge required to have credibility with the stakeholders for the project (or an indication from past experience that this can be gained quickly)
- Understands coaching tools and how to manage and influence both directly managed staff, peers and more senior staff
- Understands own strengths and weaknesses and able to seek advice/support accordingly
Desirable
- Understanding of Mental health and Learning Disability services
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of the subject matter of the project(s) to be managed.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent presentation skills
- Change Management skills
- Ability to understand operational issues quickly and gain credibility with the people who will have to implement or use the products being produced by the project
- Able to analyse and assesses information from multiple sources to inform option appraisals / business cases, revising pathways and ways of working.
- Excellent Workshop design and facilitation skills
- Able to analyse and understand complex information and uncertainties about future risk
- Confidence and ability to challenge senior managers appropriately regarding governance of the programme, escalating where required
- Able to develop options and clearly communicate the impact of different options on the timescales, costs and benefits realisation trajectories to line manager / project board / programme board leve
- Able to identify interdependencies and the potential impact of these
- Excellent facilitation, influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Good understanding how service redesign can deliver significant benefits within the NHS
- Able to communicate successfully with awide range of stakeholders both verbally and in writing
- Proficient in use of standard IT packages eg Microsoft Office
- Excellent keyboard skills
Desirable
- Coaching skills
- Chairing skills
- Quantitative data analysis skills
Benefits
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
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
To apply for this role, please visit the NHS Website
Application Deadline
April 14, 2025