• The role of the Digital Project Lead is to manage a portfolio of projects for the trust and be part of the wider Digital Services team in its day-to-day operations, providing a high-quality service; this will mean working with the Digital Services team to ensure delivery times and project schedules are defined and met. The postholder will need to achieve these objectives independently, and have significant discretion to determine the best way to carry out their work, working within broad occupational and Trust policies.
• Responsible for the planning, delivery and organisation of projects, applying appropriate methodology to control the project in line with departmental processes.
• Responsibility for compliance with governance processes, DPIA’s etc.
• To maintain an overview of your assigned work streams progress against plan, identifying risks, issues, dependencies and relationships between work streams; advising on and implementing appropriate mitigating and corrective actions or adjustments to the project plan.
• Hold the budget for the project, manage resources, timescales and costs and provide regular reports to the Project Board and internal meetings, including highlight and exception reports.
• Establish credibility and confidence amongst clinicians, managers and other stakeholders, at all levels within and external to the Trust using specialist knowledge of services and best practice models to drive service change.
• Capture the impact of change, encouraging collaborative working and motivating staff where there may be resistance to the change.
• Deploy high-level communication skills to ensure that all stakeholders are aware of objectives, developments and progress and direct the assigned staff where necessary

• Proven experience in previous roles, together with relevant experience and evidence in Project Management and environments.
• Track record of delivery of Transition of services to the required standards, on time and within budget;
• Evidence of effective supplier & contract management
• Proven organisational and project administrative skills.
• Ability to produce plans using Microsoft applications. (Microsoft Project/Visio/Excel etc.)
• Ability to build close working relationships with colleagues in different directorates from both within and outside the organisation
• Educated to Degree level in a relevant computing or business management discipline or equivalent level of experience
• Specialist project knowledge (Prince2 or equivalent qualification)

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