Job description
Digital Health and Care Wales is a new and ambitious organisation. Created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care across Wales, providing digital-first service model for the 21st century. Large-scale developments that will make a significant difference to the people of Wales include expansion of the digital patient record and Wales leading the way by creating an innovative national data resource, improving the way data is collected, shared and used.
This new organisation builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade and recognises the vital role of digital and data in modern care. By 2025, Digital Health and Care Wales aims to become an international exemplar for the digitisation of health and care.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our national Digital Medicines Transformation Portfolio (DMTP) team on a fixed term/secondment basis. Working as part of the portfolio and programme team, the successful candidate will be working with a team of project staff to deliver the Secondary Care Hospital electronic-Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) Programme of work.
Working in a challenging environment, you will face a variety of competing priorities that will require a flexible and imaginative approach combined with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Project Manager looking to help deliver digital transformation at a national level throughout NHS Wales, supporting collaboration, engagement and shared learning across ePMA implementation projects.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
This post is fixed term until 31/03/2025 due to funding.
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
To lead and manage change and ensure the successful delivery of national DMTP projects, or work streams of moderate complexity and risk ensuring that national project produce the required products, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost. Responsible for facilitating change within the project producing a result that is capable of achieving the benefits defined in the Business Justification/Case and the Project Initiation Document.
Accountable for evaluating the success of change initiatives.
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