Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
This is a rare and thrilling opportunity to play a significant role in one of the most transformative digital health initiatives at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT). As IT Site Project Manager focusing on End User Technology (EUT), you’ll be at the heart of our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme. This role is a key dependency for the programme’s success, offering you the chance to deploy new End User Devices and supporting equipment / infrastructure related to our EPR that will revolutionise how clinicians and staff deliver care across all LGT sites.
Reporting directly to the Senior IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT - EUT, the post holder, working closely with other IT disciplines and external providers, will be responsible for ensuring the efficient delivery of assigned EUT projects within agreed timescales and budget.
You’ll work closely with senior leaders, clinical teams, and technology partners, shaping the future of digital healthcare, driving innovation, and making a tangible impact on patient outcomes. If you’re passionate about delivering complex projects, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to be part of a milestone moment for the Trust, this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference.
Main duties of the job
The IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT role is focused on the planning and organisation of complex projects to achieve the successful deployment of the EPR EUT, and the associated operational change required to deliver the benefits, across multi-disciplinary teams in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT).
The IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT will manage workstream leads to organise, co-ordinate and implement a roll out plan for IT Projects. This involves managing several complex and interrelated activities to tight timescales.
Projects needs to be clearly defined, planned, communicated and implemented, in accordance with national guidelines. The Trust adheres to the policy of adopting the use of Prince2 project management methodology.
The IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT will be responsible for the practical implementation and service development across the Trust. This will include changing the way in which the Trust currently operates to manage the transition from paper based to electronic ways of working.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT will lead the overall rollout of the project and ensure that key staff within the Trust are engaged in the work and are given responsibility on certain identified workstreams as and where he/she deems appropriate.
The IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT will be responsible for working with project sponsors to translate the business requirements and into a system specification suitable for use in contract negotiations with third party suppliers and / or developers.
The IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT will undertake the project management of change projects as assigned by the IT Programme Manager.
To support the deployment process the IT Site Project Manager - EPR EUT will play a key part in ensuring that the potential benefits of change are realised and key deliverables are produced and implemented within the Trust
Person specification
Essential criteria
6. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
7. Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
8. Prince 2 Practitioner Qualification
Desirable criteria
9. Managing Successful Programmes
10. ECDL
Work Experience
Essential criteria
11. Significant Experience of working in the Health Service
12. Significant experience of the management of successful organisation wide IT/Modernisation projects using Prince 2 project management methodologies
13. Experience of leading large-scale programmes with multiple internal and external stakeholders
14. Experience of leading significant organisational change
Skills, Knowledge and Ability
Essential criteria
15. Ability to work autonomously to analyse processes and implement developments
16. Ability to act independently to implement change
17. Good problem solving and negotiating skills
18. Ability to deal with Complex and conflicting issues
19. Proven Ability to communicate effectively with health professionals on different levels
20. Proven Ability to express complex issues both orally and in writing in an easily understood manner for a range of audiences.
21. Ability to deal with conflicting views from service users
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Application numbers
To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.
We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.