Job summary
Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS) is a shared Information Management & Technology service provider hosted by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Our mission is to improve health and care through digital innovation - enhancing the digital experience for the workforce and ultimately benefiting our local population via better information-sharing and interoperability.
Are you passionate about driving digital transformation in healthcare? If so, we want to hear from you! This role is an exciting permanent opportunity for a Project and Business Change Manager within our Strategy and Delivery team. The successful candidate will support our customers by managing multiple ICT projects aligned to local and national digital strategies.
This is a challenging but rewarding position where you will use proven project methodologies (PRINCE2 and agile/hybrid approaches) to deliver projects on time and within scope, while working directly with staff and services to implement transformational change in complex environments. We are looking for a dynamic, confident and flexible individual who can handle pressure and adapt to changing requirements and deadlines.
You will be joining a well-established, cohesive and supportive team in a forward-thinking NHS environment - if you're seeking your next career move in a modern and innovative Trust, this could be the perfect opportunity.
Main duties of the job
Working to PRINCE2 project management standards (and incorporating agile or hybrid methodologies where appropriate), you will manage projects through their full lifecycle - from Project Initiation through to go-live and project closure. This includes planning and scheduling activities, coordinating resources, and monitoring progress to ensure that project deliverables are completed on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.
A major aspect of the role is business change management. You will engage and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across the local health community to facilitate successful change. This involves working with clinical and operational teams to prepare them for new systems or processes, ensuring high user adoption and minimal disruption to services. You will develop and implement stakeholder engagement and communication plans, coordinate training or support for end-users, and act as a change agent to help staff embrace new ways of working enabled by the projects.
Throughout each project, you will provide regular updates and reports to Project Boards and senior management, manage project risks, issues and dependencies, and ensure alignment with wider digital transformation goals and NHS strategic objectives.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates understanding of the use of information, the NHS national health agenda and other informatics related national strategies and policies
- Has understanding of the role and importance of health informatics
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda
- Demonstrates developed and effective knowledge of current business change and benefits realisation methodologies
- Specialist knowledge of the application and use of IT in the NHS and its strategic application
- Knowledge of all stages of information management and technology development projects from business analysis to implementation and benefits realisation.
- Understanding of the NHS structure, services and strategic agenda
- Knowledge of information governance guidance and legislation
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Cranfield Benefits Management Methodology and its application within ICT enabled change programmes
- Workshop facilitation
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level. In possession of or working towards to Masters degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- In possession of the PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation Qualification
- In possession of or working towards ECDL Advanced or MOST Expert or equivalent qualification
- Some experience of formal project management underpinned with a programme of continuing professional development
- MS Project
- MS Office (Office 365)
Desirable
- UKCHIP Registration Level 2
- MS Visio
- ECDL Advanced Word & Excel or willing to undertake
- In possession of the PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner Qualification
- MOST Master
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 1 year Project Management experience in an IT setting and 2 years in IT
- Delivery of complex programmes of work using the PRINCE2 methodology
- Some managerial experience
- At least five years overall experience of working in an operational capacity in a health care setting, with at least three years experience at a senior level within their healthcare profession
- Experience of managing significant change to a service within a healthcare operational environment
- Experience of managing the change and realisation of benefits within a project structure
- Proven advanced communication skills and an ability to communicate highly complex information clearly and concisely to stakeholders with varying degrees of understanding. Proven ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Proven ability to prioritise and organise workload
- Ability to communicate with a diverse group of professionals to very large groups
- Strong team leader with an ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to motivate staff, colleagues and stakeholders within a project
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
Desirable
- Workshop/events facilitation
- NHS or other public services background
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
- Ability to travel in order to deliver presentations at point of need
- Clean driving licence and use of car
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates understanding of the use of information, the NHS national health agenda and other informatics related national strategies and policies
- Has understanding of the role and importance of health informatics
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda
- Demonstrates developed and effective knowledge of current business change and benefits realisation methodologies
- Specialist knowledge of the application and use of IT in the NHS and its strategic application
- Knowledge of all stages of information management and technology development projects from business analysis to implementation and benefits realisation.
- Understanding of the NHS structure, services and strategic agenda
- Knowledge of information governance guidance and legislation
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Cranfield Benefits Management Methodology and its application within ICT enabled change programmes
- Workshop facilitation
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level. In possession of or working towards to Masters degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- In possession of the PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation Qualification
- In possession of or working towards ECDL Advanced or MOST Expert or equivalent qualification
- Some experience of formal project management underpinned with a programme of continuing professional development
- MS Project
- MS Office (Office 365)
Desirable
- UKCHIP Registration Level 2
- MS Visio
- ECDL Advanced Word & Excel or willing to undertake
- In possession of the PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner Qualification
- MOST Master
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 1 year Project Management experience in an IT setting and 2 years in IT
- Delivery of complex programmes of work using the PRINCE2 methodology
- Some managerial experience
- At least five years overall experience of working in an operational capacity in a health care setting, with at least three years experience at a senior level within their healthcare profession
- Experience of managing significant change to a service within a healthcare operational environment
- Experience of managing the change and realisation of benefits within a project structure
- Proven advanced communication skills and an ability to communicate highly complex information clearly and concisely to stakeholders with varying degrees of understanding. Proven ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Proven ability to prioritise and organise workload
- Ability to communicate with a diverse group of professionals to very large groups
- Strong team leader with an ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to motivate staff, colleagues and stakeholders within a project
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
Desirable
- Workshop/events facilitation
- NHS or other public services background
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
- Ability to travel in order to deliver presentations at point of need
- Clean driving licence and use of car
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.
