ICT Project Manager

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Cross Site

Town: London

Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 09/03/:59

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job Overview

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated Senior Project Manager, with experience of successful implementations of digital solutions through the project lifecycle.

We constantly aim to be innovative and at the leading edge of delivering technologies that benefit our patients and support our staff in their work. We are committed to using technology to support the improvement of the various objectives of the organisation, such as supporting new ways of delivering care in our hospitals, or to facilitate collaborative working with our Health Partners or the wider Community.

The postholder will also contribute towards the delivery of the infrastructure programme for the trust, which entails a range of projects related to cybersecurity, networks, and end-user devices.

Main Duties of the Job

The role of an ICT Senior Project Manager is to work autonomously to ensure that ICT projects are delivered on time, on cost, and within the agreed quality requirements.

ICT project managers within the Apollo programme in KCH are able to liaise, gather, and influence a wide range of stakeholders of various levels of seniority: from procurement specialists, to nurses, doctors, service managers, and other ICT colleagues within the department.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

You will engage with a broad spectrum of users across the Trust and with external agencies, and work as part of the Project Management Team, liaising closely with other teams in the Apollo programme, the KCH ICT department, and others across the health economy. The project manager develops and maintains key corporate systems as well as implements innovations and delivers ICT solutions that translate into tangible clinical benefits for patients.

Significant Project Management experience, application of PRINCE 2 (or equivalent methodology), assertiveness, ability to work with senior staff members, strong influencing skills, excellent communication skills in both written and oral media, and a demonstrable record of successful implementation to time and budget are essentials for the role.

You will have a mix of experiences of having worked in a healthcare-related organisation as well as having dealt with technology projects and their stakeholders. As such, you will be a self-starter with the ability and skills to bring people together in an organised manner. You will be keen to progressively take on more difficult projects.

This is an exciting and challenging role and you will make a vital contribution to the Trust's continued delivery of its ICT strategy.

Person Specification Education and Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualification
• Master's Degree or equivalent Postgraduate qualification

Knowledge and Experience

• Thorough understanding of the Major corporate IT systems
• Thorough understanding of the Major clinical systems used in Acute Trusts and the Local Health economy
• Extensive experience of managing medium/large scale projects in complex and multi-disciplinary environments from initial design to completion including all stages from project design, specification of requirements, preparation of business case, procurement, preparation and application of evaluation methodologies through to system implementation, process redesign & implementation, and post-project review.
• Expertise in understanding operational excellence and process design concepts
• Skilled contract negotiator and experience of contract management to secure best value for money

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to provide and present information ranging from simple to highly complex to an audience of any size that will contain listeners of differing levels of understanding and seniority
• Ability to analyse and form an opinion on solutions ranging from simple to highly complex when presented by several different suppliers
• Stakeholder engagement - Ability to engage with the clinical and managerial staff at a high level both within the Trust and in other Healthcare organisations
• Resource management - Ability to identify resource needs, secure resources, and manage their involvement on the implementation project team
• Communication skills - The ability to communicate clearly and effectively within the local organisation at all levels of understanding to large groups of staff

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