Job summary
The Digital Design Collaborative (DDC) is a forward-thinking partnership of NHS Acute Trusts across the East Midlands, united in delivering a region-wide digital transformation. Our shared ambition is to operate as one integrated healthcare system, powered by digital excellence.
Our vision:"We will have the best EPR in the NHS for the benefit of our patients, staff and population."
We're achieving this by:
- Prioritising patient safety and wellbeing
- Empowering staff with intuitive digital tools
- Embracing innovation and collaboration to deliver lasting impact
Together, we are implementing a nationally leading Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system that will revolutionise care delivery--enabling instant access to information, reducing paper use, and enhancing clinical decision-making.
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Project Manager to play a pivotal role in the implementation of a cutting-edge Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system across Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, as part of the wider Joined-Up Care Derbyshire ICS.
Recruitment of this EPR Senior Project Manager role is managed by Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Ltd (DSFS), proud to support the DDC's digital ambitions.
Main duties of the job
This is a key leadership role within an ambitious clinical transformation programme that will revolutionise how care is delivered across our region. You will lead both clinical and non-clinical workstreams, ensuring projects are scoped, planned, and delivered effectively in line withPRINCE2 methodology.
This role requires strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills to deliver high-impact digital transformation across Chesterfield Royal Hospital and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.
- Manage multiple Trust-wide projects, ensuring delivery on time and within budget
- Lead a team of 3-10 staff, providing clear direction and support
- Drive alignment with strategic and operational goals
- Work across organisational boundaries to ensure seamless collaboration and communication
- Producing high-quality project documentation (e.g., PID, plans, reports) in line with PRINCE2.
- Managing and supporting a team of Project Coordinators and third-party suppliers.
- Building strong relationships across departments and ensuring stakeholder engagement at all stages.
- Supporting organisational readiness and risk management, including acting as Risk Lead.
- Ensuring controlled project closure and transition to business as usual.
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This role requires strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills to deliver high-impact digital transformation across Chesterfield Royal Hospital and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Please see below link for the DSFS website.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Requirements
Essential
- Educated to degree level plus project / programme management or equivalent experience
- PRINCE2/Agile Methodologies
- Advanced level of IT literacy.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Experience in a Supervisory Capacity
- PRINCE 2/Agile Practitioner qualification or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of Leadership and Facilitation roles for technology initiatives
- 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.
- Experience of using a range of IT applications
Desirable
- Experience of change management
- Understands the current health care agenda.
- Experience of working on Digital/EPR/System deployments
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to lead the teams with diverse capabilities and specialties.
- Ability to ensure the outcome-oriented approach is practiced for the realisation of planned results.
- Ability to assist in training staff in the use of the project management and service improvement methodologies
Communications and Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information and ideas.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Communicate effectively, demonstrating confidence and resilience when dealing with individuals and large groups.
- Engage colleagues at all levels and negotiate, influence, and motivate to ensure project delivery.
- Possess presentation skills.
- Be able to communicate complex messages, which are open to interpretation and not always straightforward.
- Make use of all available methods of communication to monitor and contribute to the development of effective communication systems, taking action to resolve problems when communication fails
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Understanding of the Trusts Core values and behaviours
- Compassion, Openness and Excellence.
Other requirements
Essential
- Accustomed to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals, and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Requirements
Essential
- Educated to degree level plus project / programme management or equivalent experience
- PRINCE2/Agile Methodologies
- Advanced level of IT literacy.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Experience in a Supervisory Capacity
- PRINCE 2/Agile Practitioner qualification or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of Leadership and Facilitation roles for technology initiatives
- 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.
- Experience of using a range of IT applications
Desirable
- Experience of change management
- Understands the current health care agenda.
- Experience of working on Digital/EPR/System deployments
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to lead the teams with diverse capabilities and specialties.
- Ability to ensure the outcome-oriented approach is practiced for the realisation of planned results.
- Ability to assist in training staff in the use of the project management and service improvement methodologies
Communications and Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information and ideas.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Communicate effectively, demonstrating confidence and resilience when dealing with individuals and large groups.
- Engage colleagues at all levels and negotiate, influence, and motivate to ensure project delivery.
- Possess presentation skills.
- Be able to communicate complex messages, which are open to interpretation and not always straightforward.
- Make use of all available methods of communication to monitor and contribute to the development of effective communication systems, taking action to resolve problems when communication fails
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Understanding of the Trusts Core values and behaviours
- Compassion, Openness and Excellence.
Other requirements
Essential
- Accustomed to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals, and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
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.
