Head of Digital Programme Management Office

Job description

Job responsibilities

What you'll do

You will develop and manage the Digital PMO with a team of around 25, with the objective of ensuring all projects are delivered using a best-practice project delivery approach; are delivered within the agreed time, cost quality, scope, risks, and benefits, for the improvement of UHS Digital and our Trust and ultimately our patients.

You will lead our annual Digital delivery plan and manage the pipeline of new projects to meet strategic priorities, working with a wide range of stakeholders across the Trust to highlight key areas including resource management, key achievements, delivery dates, risks, and challenges.

With your excellent inter-personal, team development, leadership and communications skills, you will work with national NHS guidance and frameworks and contribute to and support the UHS Digital Strategy; you will provide programme and project management consultancy support, quality assurance, training and coaching to the PMO team

You will be committed to building positive working partnerships with the Board, senior managers, staff and a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and be able to demonstrate and live our UHS Values and share our vision and direction for the division and the trust in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and compassion.

As a Programme and Project Management senior practitioner, you will bring your significant leadership experience in the IT and digital change space, with specific experience in delivering change at scale and pace You will bring significant experience in writing multi-million-pound business cases and plans for investments, plus the management and successful delivery of full programme/project lifecycle and supplier management of a large and complex digital change portfolio

You will bring demonstrable stakeholder engagement skills to develop and build key trusted relationships with colleagues across our Trust; you will be able to present complex and technical information to internal and external groups, including at an Executive Board level, and with colleagues across our Trust

- You will have the commitment to drive the implementation of our digital strategy forward, making a considerable contribution to the care we provide for our patients, so a customer-focused approach is essential

The closing date will be Sunday 24th September at Midnight.

Interviews will take place on 4th October.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant undergraduate degree (Tech, Business, Change) or equivalent specialist knowledge and experience
• Educated to master's degree or significant equivalent experience with highly specialist technical knowledge in relevant field
• Recognised Programme and Project Management qualification to practitioner level
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Change management qualification or training

Desirable

• Recognised Portfolio Management qualification to practitioner level
• Evidence of leadership training

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Significant experience of staff line management and development, and leading a service (including budgetary management)
• Significant experience of authoring complex business cases and plans for investments of greater than £3 million including robust options appraisal and financial analysis
• Detailed knowledge and significant experience of the management and successful delivery of full programme/project lifecycle (including pre-programme/ project phases) and supplier management of a large and complex digital change portfolio and very large programmes and projects
• Significant experience of presenting complex and technical information to internal and external groups (sometimes large groups (100+ people) including at an Executive Board level
• Proven experience of engaging with all levels of staff including Board Level
• Significant experience of procurement of large IT systems with a value in excess of £1million

Desirable

• Experience and understanding of delivering procurement projects using NHS methodologies, assurances and frameworks
• Management and successful delivery of full programme/project lifecycle of very large programmes and projects (including pre-programme/ project phases) in an Acute NHS Trust, a provider NHS (non-acute) or the NHS
• Experience of business case development for the NHS
• Leading the development and improvement of programme and project management and change methodologies, policies, practices and artefacts
• Significant experience of programme and project management consultancy support, training and coaching
• A thorough understanding of national requirements for NHS Health Informatics including strategy, policy, mandatory requirements

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 Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

Address

Southampton General Hospital

Tremona Road

Southampton

SO16 6YD

Employer's website

https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)