Project Coordinator

Digital Project Coordinator - NHS

Primarily remote from home with some vists across the Black Country/West Midlands

Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of a Midlands NHS client for a Digital Project/Programme Coordinator for 6 months starting ASAP.

This is a temporary position working inside IR35.

The purpose of the role is to support the deployment of Primary Care Digital Projects e.g. Shared Care / Connecting Care Records.

Responsibilities

This role is required to assist the Project Managers within the department and apply specialist knowledge to give guidance and support to the delivery of the digital Programme.

You will:

• Be responsible for co-ordinating and planning individual implementation activities including, issues and risks management. Managing the formulation and adjustment of activity plans as required during the deployment of the specific digital projects.
• Provide a lead implementation role in both national and local digital projects, ensuring that the stated objectives are achieved in accordance with national and local requirements.
• Be responsible for ensuring that end users are supported throughout the implementation of digital projects. This will be achieved by interpreting user requirements and dependencies, offering advice and guidance on changes in ways of working, chairing regular implementation meetings, producing documentation that represents best practice and managing the project at an end user level
• There will be a requirement to handover elements of projects once systems are operational, and this will be achieved by providing thorough, training sessions, guidance and procedure notes
• Be responsible for elements of digital projects from initiation to completion within agreed timescales, working as the implementation lead across a number of projects, leading the planning, co-ordinating, allocating and managing a broad range of activities and reporting as well as being the central point of contact for queries.
• Ensure that national and local project targets and milestones are met where possible and any that are not met are recorded appropriately utilising computerised systems.
• Utilise negotiation skills to obtain user commitment and engagement.
• Responsible for a specific workstream area such as migration of clinical information or technical activities, working independently, as the lead specialist in that area and being the central point of contact for that work area.
• Identify, analyse and understand user requirements in their current working processes and ensure that implications and impacts are taken into account and communicated to the user, ensuring that the deployed solution meets their needs.
• Identify, assess and manage risks and issues in relation to system implementations over a number of deployments and agree the allocation of actions to individual team members working with that deployment.
• Develop detailed Project documentation for own workstream area and project deployments and validate other technical and complex project documentation.
• Provides regular detailed and accurate updates to Senior Management and Project Managers and produces updates for the Project Team as required.
• Works closely with staff in other departments/organisations, both NHS and external, to ensure that activities are completed in line with project timescales.

Candidate Requirements

• We're looking for candidates who can offer
• Certification in a recognised project management methodology, e,g, Prince2 (or actively working towards).
• Substantial experience in an IT/Digital project environment
• A working knowledge of NHS healthcare services ideally GP and/or Community services
• Experience of testing and implementing modules or enhancements to information systems
• Good working knowledge and use of Microsoft Office suite, including Microsoft Project
• The ability to make individual judgements when presented with complex situations without reference to a manager
• Well-developed report writing and facilitation skills

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