Job summary
The Digital Programme Manager (DPM) will work within the Digital Programme Management Office (DPMO), part of the Digital Health directorate, and will have overall responsibility for a portfolio of Trust priority digital programmes and projects. This role will also be required to carry out a range of duties as delegated by the Head of Digital Programmes.
The Digital Programme Manager will be responsible for ensuring that each programme and project in their portfolio delivers the defined objectives across the agreed scope and planned timeframe. This will be achieved through compliance with the DPMO standards; engagement with all relevant stakeholder holders; completion of appropriate Trust documentation; and ensuring clinical quality and risk management are at the centre of implementation.
The main responsibility of this post is to orchestrate digital programmes and projects using professional programme and project management principles, and to work closely with clinical safety and other service leads to ensure patient-centric improvement through digitisation.
The Digital Programme Manager will also work on a range of programmes and projects at a strategic level across a wide range of partners (including commissioners) in the integrated care system (ICS). This will include the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and Future Paget (new hospital) programmes.
Main duties of the job
The Digital Programme Manager will actively assist the Head of Digital Programmes in the education and training of relevant stakeholders to improve the success rates of the schemes, projects and / or programmes being delivered, ensuring that the benefits of the schemes, projects and / programmes have been delivered and that the full savings agreed have been realised.
The Digital Programme Manager will monitor progress for each scheme, project and / or programme, reporting, on a project by project basis, to the Head of Digital Programmes.
The Digital Programme Manager will be involved in identifying and recruiting appropriate resources from Digital Health and Clinical Safety Team and throughout the Trust during the duration of the project, using persuasion and influencing skills to motivate or re-energise to create a framework to ensure successful delivery. This may require the Digital Programme Manager, with the support of the Head of Digital Programmes, to liaise with the line manager in reporting staff performance.
About us
You'll be joining a supportive and highly motivated team with a passion for playing their part in delivering best in class care for our patients. You'll need to be a great collaborator, be able to prioritise and manage a diverse workload within tight deadlines, have excellent analytical skills and be confident at liaising with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and externally.
We are very proud of the JPUH and its people, and are continuously seeking improvements which ensure we deliver the best experience and outcomes for our colleagues, patients and their families. We support employees to maintain commitments and interests outside of work and encourage good work-life balance by offering a flexible and agile working environment
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which highlights the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to support us in shortlisting.
We would encourage you to get in touch if you have questions about the role, the wider team and working at JPUH. We look forward to receiving your application.
Please note interviews for this position will take place on either Wednesday, 4th June or Thursday, 5th June 2025.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which highlights the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to support us in shortlisting.
We would encourage you to get in touch if you have questions about the role, the wider team and working at JPUH. We look forward to receiving your application.
Please note interviews for this position will take place on either Wednesday, 4th June or Thursday, 5th June 2025.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Prince 2 Project Management accreditation or equivalent experience
- Post graduate training and experience in a job related subject to masters' or equivalent level
Desirable
- Programme or Change Management certification / qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of managing complex, major change/service improvement projects within the NHS and across partnerships
- Experience of leading change to patient services, delivering tangible sustained improvements working in a operational role
- Experience of managing staff from different professional backgrounds in projects
- Proven track record of achievement in: oClinical improvement and behavioural change oProactive performance management oDelivering challenging objectives to agreed deadlines oDelivery of cost savings
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of LEAN
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial teams in the delivery of performance targets, service delivery and change programmes
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners, creating conditions for good partnership working.
- Ability to prioritise work in the face of competing demands.
- Highly developed organisational skills.
- Demonstrable competencies in : oCommunication / presentation (to small and large audiences) verbally and MS office oProblem solving oData analysis
- Ability to monitor and regularly review project information.
- Demonstrate an ability to create and lead multi-disciplinary teams on project tasks including across organisations.
- Understanding the changing NHS environment and its impact on service, provision staff and patients.
Desirable
- Ability to identify new ideas and innovative ways of working.
- Knowledge of NHS management.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Prince 2 Project Management accreditation or equivalent experience
- Post graduate training and experience in a job related subject to masters' or equivalent level
Desirable
- Programme or Change Management certification / qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of managing complex, major change/service improvement projects within the NHS and across partnerships
- Experience of leading change to patient services, delivering tangible sustained improvements working in a operational role
- Experience of managing staff from different professional backgrounds in projects
- Proven track record of achievement in: oClinical improvement and behavioural change oProactive performance management oDelivering challenging objectives to agreed deadlines oDelivery of cost savings
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of LEAN
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial teams in the delivery of performance targets, service delivery and change programmes
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners, creating conditions for good partnership working.
- Ability to prioritise work in the face of competing demands.
- Highly developed organisational skills.
- Demonstrable competencies in : oCommunication / presentation (to small and large audiences) verbally and MS office oProblem solving oData analysis
- Ability to monitor and regularly review project information.
- Demonstrate an ability to create and lead multi-disciplinary teams on project tasks including across organisations.
- Understanding the changing NHS environment and its impact on service, provision staff and patients.
Desirable
- Ability to identify new ideas and innovative ways of working.
- Knowledge of NHS management.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
