Band 7 IT Project Manager-ICT

Job summary

The Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Team is responsible for ensuring that the Trusts IT infrastructure is continuously refreshed, modernised and is supportable by the appropriate 3rd party vendors.

We are looking to build a team to utilise and implement methodologies and plans to facilitate the delivery of the lifecycle change programme. Furthermore to build professional relationships, implement change and provide subject matter expertise to avoid operational and Cyber impact where changes are made to the infrastructure.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The role of the Project Manager is to support the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Programme. This includes supporting the maintenance and refresh of network and voice services, provide assistance where required to the Server refresh project, and to ensure key project documentation is accurately recorded and maintained.

The successful candidate will manage a mixture of medium to large sized projects concurrently so the ability to manage time and resources is essential.

Desirable skills and experience;

Prince 2 qualified

Experienced with Microsoft Project or Project for the Web

Excellent communication skills

High standard of maintaining project documentation information accurately and efficiently Experienced with presenting Change to a Project Change Control Board

Experience of managing medium to large sized projects

NHS experience

Good understanding of network infrastructure

Good understanding of voice services

Good understanding of Server/application environment including both on premise and cloud hosted services

Thorough understanding of the full project lifecycle

Good experience of managing network refresh or upgrades

Good experience of managing voice service refresh or upgrades

Good experience of managing Server OS upgrades / application upgrades / server decommissioning

Experience of managing 3rd party suppliers

Experience of managing staff

Experience of budget management

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ’whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

IT degree or equivalent industry qualification and relevant experience in an IT related job

Experience

Essential

Relevant experience within an IT environment including actual experience of project management which includes a period in an NHS environment. (E)

Experience of managing a multi-disciplinary project team (E)

Full project life cycle experience in medium and large IT projects, with strong skills in the planning and

implementation phases (E)

Delivering projects on time and to budget (E)

Writing and presenting IT business cases E)

A good understanding of project risk and issue management (E)

Presenting internally and externally, and at all levels (E)

A good understanding of NHS strategies and plans and how they affect delivery of IT within Trusts (E)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.