Project Manager (Esr)

The Role

The NHS Electronic Staff Record Programme supports the delivery of national workforce policy and strategy by providing HR Directors and their teams with a range of tools that facilitate effective workforce management and planning; thereby enabling improved quality, efficiency and assurance of compliance against essential workforce standards.

An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the NHS for an experienced Project Manager to join the team in Leeds in order to monitor, manage and define improvements to the ESR programme. The project is currently confirmed to go on until the end of the academic year and would ideally suit a candidate with experience of a range of HR and planning related software and projects.

Skills and Experience

• Project management accreditations (essential)
• Previous project experience within the NHS (highly desirable)
• Previous involvement with the implementation of ESR (highly desirable)
• Previous in-depth experience of HR / planning projects and processes (highly desirable)

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Working closely with colleagues who are planning and tracking progress of the Programme to ensure an up to date picture is maintained.
• Ensuring that actions are progressed and highlighting areas where insufficient information is likely to cause a problem.
• Pro-actively identifying likely problems which may hinder delivery and suggesting solutions to the Programme management.
• Ensure that the Programme risk register is updated on a regular basis and that the information captured is up to date and can be reported on in an efficient manner.
• Design and creation of highlight & checkpoint reports for Programme and Steering Boards (e.g. Programme dashboards; minutes and presentation slides).
• Management of the product management and risk management processes.
• Ensure that there is robust adherence to PPM processes including planning; risk management; dependency management and change control.
• Management of the change control procedure.

Please note that the deadline for applications will be Monday 20th:00