EPR Programme Office Manager

at  Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

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.
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Job responsibilities
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 Trusts activities
Provide regular progress reports, including dealing with complex analysis and data, and identifying any issues requiring resolution
Support thinking on leading edge digital programmes to enable better clinical care and patient outcomes
Ensures conflicts between programme and project requirements are escalated and resolved based on organisational priorities and capacity
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
Ensure timely and consistent communication to stakeholders on progress, impacts, and changes associated with management of the programme/project
Participate in programme and project reviews to reflect senior level support, leadership, and involvement
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 programmes successful outcome
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
Ensure contracts developed for new systems being implemented comply with the current NHS standards, providing input and direction to their completion
Ensure that project budgets are adequately managed and spend recorded, and agreed with the relevant Finance lead, providing input and support where necessary
Provide management oversight of project budgets, including monthly reporting where appropriate
Provide management oversight of project benefits and ensure benefits realisation is undertaken and handed over
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 teams portfolio
Support in the recruitment of additional staff needed to deliver project-related activity, providing support to others as necessary
Be responsible for delivering against the overall design and plan of the specified programme providing IT project management expertise within the team
Carry out other duties as may be required by the Director of IT and/or Programme Board

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