Senior Digital Project Manager

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and organised Digital Project Manager to join our Transformation Delivery Team. You will lead the end-to-end delivery of digital projects, driving better patient care and operational efficiency through modern technology.

Reporting to the Digital Programme Manager, you will provide strategic leadership for the implementation, integration and optimisation of Digital Projects across the organisation. Working closely with senior leaders, digital specialists, suppliers and operational teams, you will ensure successful programme delivery, stakeholder engagement and long-term benefits realisation.

If you are an experienced project manager with a strong track record of delivering complex digital transformation initiatives, we would love to hear from you.

Prior to submitting your application, please ensure that you have obtained permission from your current line manager to undertake this secondment, in line with our Secondment Policy. Please copy and paste the link below into your browser to read the full policy.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

*Project Delivery: Manage the full lifecycle delivery of concurrent digital projects, ensuring they are on time, within budget, and aligned with Trust objectives.

*Governance and Documentation: Produce high-quality project documentation including Project Initiation Documents (PIDs), detailed plans, and robust RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).

*Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with clinical, operational, and technical teams, translating clinical needs into clear digital deliverables.

*Change Management: Facilitate process redesign, user adoption, and new ways of working to ensure long-term benefit realisation.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate diploma in Digital Health / Informatics.
• Degree in IT, health informatics, business or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.
• Evidence of CPD in project / change management.

Desirable

• APM PMQ or ChPP.
• AgilePM / Scrum
• Master certification.

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience managing digital projects in NHS or large public sector environment.
• Proven delivery of at least two projects to time, cost and quality.
• Experience of stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational and technical domains.
• Budget management and supplier management experience.

Desirable

• Experience of electronic patient record modules, data warehouse / BI projects, or network / infrastructure upgrades.
• Benefits realisation and post-implementation review activity

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate diploma in Digital Health / Informatics.
• Degree in IT, health informatics, business or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.
• Evidence of CPD in project / change management.

Desirable

• APM PMQ or ChPP.
• AgilePM / Scrum
• Master certification.

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience managing digital projects in NHS or large public sector environment.
• Proven delivery of at least two projects to time, cost and quality.
• Experience of stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational and technical domains.
• Budget management and supplier management experience.

Desirable

• Experience of electronic patient record modules, data warehouse / BI projects, or network / infrastructure upgrades.
• Benefits realisation and post-implementation review activity

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

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tatchbury Mount


Calmore


Southampton


Hampshire


SO40 2RZ


United Kingdom



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