eCare Project Manager

eCare Project Manager - Fixed Term Contract 12 Months - £42,618 - Hybrid/Cornwall - NHS

I am currently supporting a key NHS client looking for a Project Manager to support their EPR Programme on a fixed term basis.

EPR Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Initiate IM&T projects as directed by the Senior Project Manager, Programme Manager, and assess them for feasibility
• Responsible for identifying, analysing and documenting the project requirements.
• Responsible for the production of the specification and design/modification of information systems, including overseeing development work.
• Undertake impact analyses to feed into service changes required after project delivery.
• Identify, in conjunction with customers, the benefits to be realised by meeting the project requirements and the key success factors to be used to measure the project.
• Manage a number of concurrent projects and/or act as stage manager for larger projects, as assigned by the Senior Project Manager or Programme Manager, across all customer areas across different disciplines, ensuring effective and regular communication at all levels with all interested parties
• Co-ordinate and manage internal and external parties to ensure their effective involvement in change management, delivery and ongoing service, according to policy of the customer organisations.
• Ensure that quality standards are maintained throughout, such that each project deliverable is fit for purpose and meets its documented requirement.
• Defining and managing project risk parameters, instigating contingency plans and escalate as necessary to the Senior Project Manager, Programme Manager or Project Board.
• Create, direct and motivate representative project teams. Allocate, schedule and monitor team members' work, and the day-to-day coordination of their planned tasks to meet the project targets.
• Present project aims and objectives to suppliers, staff, patients and/or support groups, engendering enthusiasm and commitment
• Define quality standards and coordinate and take part in system and hardware testing of the delivered system; this will also be required for system upgrades.
• Initiate and manage background research, development and testing phases of each project, as part of the technical options appraisal process, in order to recommend the optimum solution.
• As required, in conjunction with the IT practice educators or training team, train customers in the use of the new systems and provide training material.
• Identify technical and intellectual issues that are raised as part of the project.
• Using own judgement, liaise with the appropriate CITS operations and support teams, and contractors, to ensure optimum solution and a smooth handover of the project to the support representatives, including agreeing support processes for future procedures and service level agreements where necessary.
• At times project delivery and implementation will involve working long and unsocial hours under stressful conditions in order to minimise service disruption. Some project work will require long periods of concentration, which may be interrupted with requests for help or information without detriment to those current activities.

EPR Project Manager Experience Required:

• Proven successful structured project management skills/ experience including experience in managing change and leadership of project teams.
• Significant relevant experience in health service or other major large-scale customer service oriented organisation.
• Proven experience in organising and prioritising multiple tasks and workloads and meeting deadlines
• Experience of creating and managing project budgets.

f this role is of interest, please apply for more information.