Digital Programme Manager

We are seeking to appoint a Digital Programme Manager to the Digital Programmes department at Swansea Bay University Health Board. Digital Services are integral to the Health Board's clinical services plan, and play a key role in supporting thousands of staff to provide effective services.We help clinical staff manage and monitor patients throughout their care through the provision of digital applications, infrastructure, intelligence and processes. The successful candidate will manage a programme of digital projects.Reporting to the Head of Digital Planning for Patient Flow and Diagnostics, these may include:

• Development of the patient flow and theatre management digital systems
• Replacement of the pathology and radiology digital systems
• New flows of diagnostic requests & results across several diagnostic specialties
The post holder will work alongside clinical and operational colleagues and other Digital Programme Managers to ensure successful programme delivery to ensure digital processes and solutions are embedded to enable full benefits realisation.The post holder will also be required to work with Digital Health and Care Wales and other NHS Wales/partner organisations. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and its use to improve quality of care and patient safety.You will be highly organised, enthusiastic, motivated and able to work closely with staff at all levels to ensure project delivery., Lead and manage major initiatives or programmes involving a portfolio of projects undertaken by the Digital Services Directorate, ensuring that they are coherent and balanced with a strong focus on delivery and implementation of products and services.This will include:
• Projects identified as part of the Health Board's Digital Services annual objectives, which will involve planning and implementing a broad range of activities and new ways of working.
• Collaboration on Nationally led projects with Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) and other Health Boards.
• Support of service modernisation service improvements through theimplementation of technology
• Take responsibility for the production of plans, documentation, support, guidance and training for project teams and staff within and across sites throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead on a range of operational/strategic plans for performance improvement in new areas across sites, including diagnostic work in order to develop solutions and imparting sometimes unwelcome news to generate need for change.
• Manage Project Teams and work with other project managers in the production of plans, documentation and guidance throughout the project lifecycle, using agreed Performance Improvement Team/Step Change project documentation.
• Act as a budget holder for highly complex, highly sensitive projects.
  
  We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation. You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you. There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled. Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do. If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.