NT GLH Informatics Senior Project Manager

Job overview

This role is for a diligent Senior Project Manager who is looking to further their career in Project Management and ICT by leading and overseeing ICT projects within the fast-paced world of Genomics. You will be responsible for delivering projects on time, within budget, and in  accordance with the highest standards. Genomics is a rapidly expanding and innovative area of medicine, underpinning new treatments, technologies and approaches to managing patients with a wide variety including cancer, rare diseases and common conditions such as hypercholesterolaemia. Over time, genomics will inform more and more treatment decisions made by clinicians. NHS England’s ambition is to enable the NHS to harness the power of genomic technology and science to be the first national health care system to offer consistent and equitable genomic testing for the people of England. The Informatics Senior Project Manager will be joining the informatics team during an exciting time where the North Thames GLH are participating in several high-profile national projects and have the opportunity to participate in several more in coming months under the leadership of the Informatics Director. This is a new and exciting role which requires a high degree of organisational skill, the ability to prioritise workload, manage with competing priorities as well as possess excellent stakeholder engagement skills

Main duties of the job

• Lead and manage a range of projects through their project life cycle, directing and motivating the project team to secure delivery.
• Lead the creation of up-to-date project documentation, track delivery of agreed schemes, and prepare presentations on progress for senior stakeholders (including the Trust Board). The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the creation and the quality of documentation required for each stage of the project life cycle
• Lead work with managers across the Trust to effectively estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful delivery of projects to an agreed scope
• Support genomics managers and SROs on the development of business cases and feasibility studies.
• Lead analysis, projects and areas of development as directed by the Informatics Director and Chief Operating Officer.
• Use knowledge and skills to inform appraisals of options for service redesign and the assessment of risks and issues associated with each option; use professional judgement to select the activities that are best suited, from a sound evidence base.
• Foster good communications and effective team working with all disciplines of staff to ensure support and collaboration with all informatics programmes
• Present data and information in report format and presentations as required  by the Informatics Director and project sponsors.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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