Senior Project Manager/Team Leader

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Manager/Team Leader to join NHS Tayside’s Digital Programme Office.

NHS Tayside has recently developed their Digital Strategy and at the heart of this lies an ambition to develop an Electronic Patient Record (EPR), alongside modernising the application and technical estate.

This is an exciting time to join NHS Tayside’s Digital Directorate Programme Office as it will play a key role in supporting the ambitions set out in this new strategy.

As Senior Project Manager/Team Leader, you will be responsible for delivering complex projects across the Strategic Delivery Portfolio and leading your team to drive forward excellence in project delivery.

What We Are Looking For

You should have in-depth knowledge of project management, project management processes and tools, excellent communication skills and have capabilities in the following areas:

• Team and Line Management
• IT Project Management
• Resource Management
• Supplier Management
  
  

What We Will Give You

The post holder will have a degree of autonomy within their role, reporting to the Digital Programme Office Service Delivery Manager.

This is a permanent, full-time post (37 hrs per week) within the Digital Directorate, MacKenzie Building, Ninewells Campus, Dundee.

NHS Tayside provides its employees with excellent family friendly policies along with generous leave entitlement. We aim to provide an environment that encourages work/life balance and there is some flexibility in team remote working on a partial basis.

Your performance must comply with the national “Mandatory Induction Standards for Healthcare Support Workers in Scotland” 2009; and with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.

Who to contact

Informal enquiries please contact Gayle MacDonald ()

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

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