EPR Programme Office Manager | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6210775/249-5560035-4 |
Summary
previous applicants need not to apply
Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you exactly the person we are looking for? Applications are welcome from experienced, enthusiastic, professional candidates who want to join our Digital Team in this role as a Digital Transformation Project Office Manager.
You will be a highly visible within the role working closely with the EPR Programme Director, Programme Leadership Team, and Programme Board. The post holder will use their extensive programme management office experience to manage the PMO functions across a range of strategic activities spanning multiple organisations. You will provide governance, support, and control across the Shared EPR Programme.
Working with internal and external stakeholders, you will help drive the success of the programme. You will develop good working relationships with Trust and Programme Executive leadership, the central Programme team and programme/project managers across the shared EPR landscape.
This post holder will work with colleagues across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) partnership.
As a Programme office Manager, you will monitor controls on the programme’s work streams in liaison with Work Stream Leads, and maintain oversight of work stream interdependencies, expenditure, risks, and issues. You will lead on programme reporting, ensuring that both the AHA and the three Trusts report effectively through governance frameworks. You will also assist with co-ordination of procurements and management of external supplier relationships in collaboration procurement and programme leads.
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1. Act as Programme Office Manager for a major IT programme comprising of a multiple related IT projects directed toward strategic business and other organisational objectives across the whole of the Trust’s activities
2. Provide regular progress reports, including dealing with complex analysis and data, and identifying any issues requiring resolution
3. Support thinking on leading edge digital programmes to enable better clinical care and patient outcomes
4. Ensures conflicts between programme and project requirements are escalated and resolved based on organisational priorities and capacity
5. Be responsible for programme quality and embed quality processes into the programme from the outset and put in place the governance and operational working practices of the programme team. Work closely with the Quality Assurance as necessary
6. Ensure timely and consistent communication to stakeholders on progress, impacts, and changes associated with management of the programme/project
7. Participate in programme and project reviews to reflect senior level support, leadership, and involvement
8. Be the owner and manager of Risks and Issues Logs at programme level. Embed a risk management process into the programme from the outset. Identify issues and initiate corrective action as necessary and thus manage the risks to the programme’s successful outcome
9. Represent the IT Department at senior level project-related meetings, providing written and verbal commentary updates which can by highly complex of relevant projects and programmes
10. Ensure contracts developed for new systems being implemented comply with the current NHS standards, providing input and direction to their completion
11. Ensure that project budgets are adequately managed and spend recorded, and agreed with the relevant Finance lead, providing input and support where necessary
12. Provide management oversight of project budgets, including monthly reporting where appropriate
13. Provide management oversight of project benefits and ensure benefits realisation is undertaken and handed over
14. Ensure that standard project management software tools and methodologies (particularly MSP® and PRINCE2®) are applied appropriately to ensure efficient management of progress, and that appropriate governance arrangements exist for all main projects in the team’s portfolio
15. Support in the recruitment of additional staff needed to deliver project-related activity, providing support to others as necessary
16. Be responsible for delivering against the overall design and plan of the specified programme providing IT project management expertise within the team
17. Carry out other duties as may be required by the Director of IT and/or Programme Board.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Apr 2024
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