[Hiring] Digital Project Support Manager @Velindre University NHS Trust

Role Description

Velindre University NHS Trust (VUNHST) has two core divisions: the Welsh Blood Service and Velindre Cancer Centre. Digital Services supports daily operations and delivers key transformation projects across the Trust. Digital, Data and Technology services are essential to modern healthcare and enable the Trust’s strategic ambitions.

Velindre is committed to modernising healthcare through innovative information technologies. These improve decision-making, support effective information sharing, enhance patient and donor choice, and enable care closer to home, leading to better outcomes for patients, donors and their families.

An ambitious individual is required to provide high-quality project support within Digital Services, ensuring successful delivery of digital projects.

The Digital Project Support Manager will lead projects or work packages of low to moderate complexity, ensuring delivery within agreed time, cost and quality standards. They will support achievement of defined project benefits.

The role includes managing the Digital Project Support Officer and supporting Project Managers to deliver national systems such as WPAS and ePMA, aligned with the NHS Wales digital strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management within a digital services environment.
• Strong understanding of digital transformation in healthcare.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Desirable: Ability to speak Welsh.

Requirements

• Work as part of the Digital Programmes Team and manage your own Digital projects.
• Actively involved in setting operational, technical, and strategic objectives of the project.
• Identify and reconcile key stakeholder interests in the project.
• Understand and clarify project scope and definition of work products.
• Identify, assess, and prioritise risks associated with the project.
• Assess project feasibility and negotiate necessary amendments.
• Run day-to-day tasks of projects to provide successful outcomes.

Benefits

• Favourable salary and reward/staff benefits & support package.
• Opportunities for career development.
• Supportive work environment focused on continuous improvement.

Company Description

Velindre University NHS Trust holds a special place at the heart of healthcare in Wales. It comprises two divisions, Velindre Cancer Centre and Welsh Blood Service. The Trust also hosts NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and Health Technology Wales.

Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver.

At Velindre University NHS Trust, we aim to foster a culture of discovery, collaboration, and continuous improvement by embedding research and innovation into everything we do.