Job summary
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are part of the largest digital health and social care transformation programme in the world. With investment of more than £1 billion pounds a year nationally and a significant additional spend locally, this programme of work has been created to give staff and citizens the technology they need.
Due to this brand-new Innovation programme, we are looking for a dynamic Project Manager to lead this Digital transformation, which will support health and social care in Derbyshire.
Working under the direction of the EPR Programme Manager and alongside other Senior Project Managers, Clinical, Admin, and Technical teams; you will lead and work with clinical and non-clinical workstreams to ensure the clinical design aspects of this EPR Programme are fulfilled for UHDB and CRH. This will include but not limited to current state process mapping, future-state mapping, adoption of new ways of working, change management in the clinical settings etc.
This role will cover 6 sites:
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital (CRH)
- Royal Derby Hospital (RDH)
- Queen's Hospital Burton (QHB)
- Florence Nightingale Community Hospital (FNCH)
- Samuel Johnson Community Hospital (SJCH)
- Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital (SRPCH)
Hybrid working option will be available as per the need of work.
Main duties of the job
This is a unique opportunity to join a newly created team that focuses on articulating the impact of this exciting new programme of work.
This is a unique opportunity to join a newly created team that focuses on articulating the impact of this exciting new programme of work.
- Supervision/management of a project within the Core EPR programme as appropriate.
- Monitoring of finance resource associate with running a project as appropriate.
- Support the implementation and deployment of the Core EPR across all sites of the CRH andUHDB estate. Circa. 18000 members of staff.
- Influence key decision makers on a wide range of information needs for the multi million pound projects.
- Provide input into the Trusts implementation plans.
- Provide information, advice and support across the Trust and other local healthcare organisations
- Budgetary and responsibility for between 3 and 10 members of staff.
- Delegated responsibility for specific project budgets up to 100K.
Closing date for applications: 16 July 2024
Interview dates: w/c: 5 August 2024
About us
As trusted organisations at the heart of our communities, UHDB and CRH recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values underpin how we intend to work as Trusts and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
- Excellent Progression through higher roles in this big Programme
- On-going support through every step from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond
- Friendly, supportive and caring colleagues
- A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about UHDB:
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are part of the largest digital health and social care transformation programme in the world lead by NHSX. With investment of more than £1 billion pounds a year nationally and a significant additional spend locally, NHSX has been created to give staff and citizens the technology they need.
NHSX brings together the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement who will deliver the Health Secretarys Tech Vision, building on the NHS Long Term Plan. We will speed up the digital transformation of the NHS and social care. We have set ourselves five missions, which are focused on how we can make things better for patients and staff.
These are:
- Reducing the burden on clinicians and staff, so they can focus on patients.
- Giving people the tools to access information and services directly.
- Ensuring clinical information can be safely accessed, wherever it is needed.
- Improving patient safety across the NHS
- Improving NHS productivity with digital technology.
Please click on the link below for further information about NHSx http://www.acertus.co.uk/nhsx/index.html
The EPR implementation forms an integral part of an innovative and exciting Clinical Transformation programme that will be enabled by a comprehensive Digital experience, incorporating a wide range of EPR functionality required to deliver excellent patient care.
The post holder will effectively manage the delivery of multiple, concurrent projects from initial conception and planning to implementation and subsequent monitoring, while ensuring that best practice project management principles and techniques are adopted throughout the project lifecycle.
The post holder will also undertake such other duties as reasonable correspond to the grade of the post and are commensurate with its level of responsibility, as defined by the line manager.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level plus project/programme management or equivalent
- Advanced level of IT Literacy with experience of using a range of IT applications
Desirable
- Project Management Practitioner qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience, specialist working knowledge of project / programme management and improvement methodologies and the ability to apply them in clinical settings, working with different staff groups at all levels within the organisation.
Desirable
- Experience in a Supervisory Capacity
- Has an understanding of the current health care Agenda
- Experience of working on Digital/EPR System Deployments
Skills
Essential
- Ability to assist in training staff in the use of Project management and service improvement methodologies
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious info and ideas
- Ability to communicate complex messages, which are open to interpretation and not always straightforward
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team (2)
- Certificate or qualification in presenting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Derby Hospital (Cross site Working)
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 3NE