Project Manager - Digital

The Role

To be a specialist in and manage a team delivering a wide range of eHealth Project Management and business support services which are part of the eHealth strategy of NHS Lanarkshire.

This includes the management of discrete and/or linked projects in our portfolio from initiation to full operational status, ensuring achievement of agreed benefits within agreed timescales and budgets set by the business/project sponsor.

To implement best practice, utilising the PRINCE2 project management methodology and internal Project Office framework ensuring agreed benefits are delivered within agreed timescales and budgets set by the business/project sponsors.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

Education

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Management or Project Management qualification e.g. PRINCE 2
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

• Experience of working within the NHS
• Proven track record of successfully managing high profile diverse projects probably gained over at least 3 years
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in dealing directly with stakeholders and customers.
• Up to date awareness of NHS national and local eHealth and business initiatives
• Effective project and action planning skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise own workload and that of others
• Sound and creative problem solving ability
• Excellent communication skills; Oral, written and presentational skills
• Experienced negotiator/facilitator with the ability to influence others.
• Understanding of Data Protection and IT security principles.
• Ability to manage and understand financial information
• Highly motivated, assertive and confident, with drive and enthusiasm
• Highly IT literate
• Strong Leadership and team working skills
  
  

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It would be great if you also have

• Project Management qualification e.g. Agile, PRINCE 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
• Proven ability to manage and deliver projects on time and on budget
• Proven track record of managing projects using project management methodology, e.g. Microsoft Project
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to demonstrate the critical leadership behaviours, identified as essential to achieving success within NHS Scotland
• Displays enthusiasm and demonstrates expert leadership and knowledge about their work and also about their role as an influencer
  
  

Contract type

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Digital Programme Team within Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters

The working pattern for this role To be confirmed

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Julie McCulloch, Digital Services Manager on [email protected]

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Adnan Saddique, Recruitment Administrator on [email protected] (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some Of NHS Lanarkshire’s Benefits Include

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures
  
  

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information For Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. However, if there are a high level of interest in this position, we may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
• For help to complete an application on Jobtrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
• Please check your e-mail regularly (including junk & spam folders) as well as your Jobtrain account for updates.
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• Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments
  
  

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.
  
  

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Right to Work within the UK

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.