Digital Project Support Manager

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., The main responsibilities of the Project Support Manager will be drawn from all or some of the following (depending upon the project being worked on):

• To work as part of the Digital Programmes Team and be responsible for managing your own Digital projects, with the support of a Digital Portfolio Project Manager
• To be actively involved in the setting of the operational, technical and strategic objectives of the project
• Identify and reconcile key stakeholder interests in the project
• Understand and clarify the project scope and definition of work products in order to plan effectively
• Identify, assess and prioritise risk associated with the project
• Assess project feasibility and negotiate necessary amendments with the Digital Portfolio Project Manager
• Run the day to day tasks of those projects to provide successful outcomes as defined in the scope and benefits documentation
  
  Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously 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. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors. At Velindre University NHS Trust we aim to foster a culture of discovery, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We will achieve this by embedding research and innovation into everything we do, to deliver meaningful, measurable impact for our patients and communities. If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.