Informatics Project Co-ordinator

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Project Co-ordinator to join our team .

The successful post holder will support the delivery of the digital agenda across the Trust and will support the procurement and implementation of a Single EPR across all sites.

The successful applicant will have proven experience of Digital Projects and will ensure that the digital programme is being communicated and delivered, with the IT Programme Manager.

The post-holder will take a whole-systems approach, working closely with clinical and operational teams and corporate services.

The Trust has come a long way in a short space of time and needs to maintain this momentum. This role will be key to ensuring the Digital Programme is delivered and the benefits are realised., The IT Project Co-ordinator provides support for the running and management of IT projects underway in the Trust.

The role provides the project management office function for IT projects, co-ordinating project boards, managing the filing system for projects, ensuring that the production of highlight reports and all supporting project documentation is carried out using the Trust's standard templates.

The role manages elements of IT projects as required by the IT Programme Manager, as well as supporting, facilitating and monitoring progress across the Trust.

In conjunctions with the IT Programme Manager, the post holder ensures that projects follow the PRINCE 2 project management method, are not only documented correctly, but have good stake holder engagement, report progress against plan consistently through the appropriate corporate governance arrangements, have key decisions documented, are closed correctly and have smooth handover to business as usual operation.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme