Digital Project Manager | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 19 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,387 - £56,515 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2026 |
| Location: | Blackpool, FY3 8NR |
| Company: | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7908802/435-1LSC-BTH-1826 |
Summary
The Digital Project Manager will specifically be working on a project regarding the development and implementation of the workforce data standards service. This service will be responsible for improving workforce data to support operational issues across the NHS at local, regional and national levels. It will lead the update to the national workforce dataset and contribute to the development of the workforce section of the canonical data model. The aim is to reduce the burden on NHS organisations by consolidating and minimising workforce data collection requirements wherever possible
The Digital Project Manager is responsible for, and has the authority to ensure the successful day-to-day running of Digital projects under their management on behalf of the relevant Programme / Project Boards. The Digital Project Manager is responsible that appropriate planning, resourcing, reporting and deployment activities are undertaken to ensure safe and timely implementation.
One LSC is a new collaborative partnership shared service formed by the five NHS Trusts serving the Lancashire and South Cumbria population of 1.8 million people. We are a shared service run by the NHS, for the NHS and are hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of the partner Trusts of the Lancashire and South Cumbria system.
One LSC stands for ‘One Lancashire and South Cumbria’ and reflects the Lancashire and South Cumbria System ambition to have one team serving Lancashire and South Cumbria in a joined-up way. It is jointly run by the five Trusts as a collaborative partnership.
Working as part of OneLSC, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHNHSFT) is committed to deliveringpatient andorganisationalbenefitsthrough the use ofInformationTechnology. BTHNHSFT has a wide range of development and improvement projects planned, including the further roll out ofthe IMS MaximsElectronic Patient Recordfunctionality as part of the Digital Level-UpProgramme.
• Produce a Project Initiation Document (PID), Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) that covers the overall timeframe of the programme, with more detailed, sub-DIPs to address specific periods of key activities (e.g. go live planning).
• Plan and allocate resources to projects, from both within and outside the project team. This will require cross-departmental working and negotiation across various departments and organisations.
• Define and issue all work packages ensuring they are delivered in accordance within project timescales, cost, scope and quality.
• Critically evaluate the quality of project plans and the organisational capability and capacity to achieve the planned outcomes.
• Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between other programmes/projects.
• Monitor overall progress against the DIP on a day-to-day basis, resolving issues and initiating decisive and corrective action as appropriate.
• Identify and mitigate any project risks ensuring that the minimum number of risks become issues, to include the provision of a comprehensive Risk log.
• Provide direct support to the project / workstream leads and take immediate and decisive action where the project / workstreams are failing to meet key milestones or targeted levels of improvement.
• Ensure that the delivery of new products or services from the Trust’s chosen provider(s) meets the requirements of the clinical services, to the necessary standards of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
• Ensure that the various work streams complete tasks to the appropriate levels of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost, in accordance with the project plan and governance arrangements.
• Work closely with Project Executives to manage projects effectively.
• Maintain a comprehensive performance and reporting framework with which to keep the Project Executive, Project Board fully appraised of progress against the project plan, including a summary of any key risks to delivery and actions taken to mitigate those risks.
• Understand the critical path of projects and the overall programme and make decisions regarding any necessary escalation to the Digital Programme Director.
• Confidently and accurately run budgets for allocated projects so that the overall Digital Programme budget function is successful. Within this the Project Manager will proactively monitor expenditure and costs against deployment plans.
• Manage the dialogue and negotiations, including financial and operational matters, between the Trust and third party suppliers as appropriate.
• Act as the primary contact between the Trust and its chosen providers for the implementation of Health Informatics projects.
• Provide expert advice to clinical and operational leaders regarding necessary changes to working practices as part of the implementation of Health Informatics projects.
• Provide expert advice to clinical and operational leaders regarding the suitability and viability of existing and proposed electronic clinical systems.
• Manage effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Proactively engage with staff at all levels and in all professional groups as appropriate, communicating complex and emotive ideas, negotiating and influencing the changes to deliver the identified benefits.
• Ensure that all complex technical information is translated appropriately and conveyed to work stream leads and clinical services in a non-technical, understandable manner.
• Act in an advisory role to key decision making forums, providing recommendations
This advert closes on Sunday 3 May 2026