Digital Elective Care Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role supports the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust's digital and clinical transformation journey, specifically focusing on the transition from PAS to eCare. The lead will drive service transformation, ensure elective care processes align with programme objectives, and support the implementation of a new Patient Portal. It involves providing project management support, advising training personnel, and contributing to service redesign initiatives.
Essential criteria
- Proven successful structured project management skills / experience including experience in managing change and leadership of project teams.
- Relevant experience in health service or other major large scale customer service oriented organisation
- Previous NHS operational management experience
- Proven experience in organising and prioritising multiple tasks and workloads and meeting deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Health information experience
- Experience of Service Change Management/business Transformation
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary project/workstream teams
- Hold a formal project management qualification (eg. PRINCE, APM, Agile) or relevant experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with a specialist IMT/business management qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
- PRINCE 2
- Clinical Systems
- General Management
- Ability to solve complex analytical problems; independently analyse information; oversee and control testing/options appraisals and make recommendations based on all analysis.
- Good team leadership, co-ordination and motivation skills. Good team player.
- Proven successful structured project management skills / experience including experience in managing change and leadership of project teams.
- Relevant experience in health service or other major large scale customer service oriented organisation
- Previous NHS operational management experience
- Proven experience in organising and prioritising multiple tasks and workloads and meeting deadlines
- Health information experience
- Experience of Service Change Management/business Transformation
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary project/workstream teams
- Hold a formal project management qualification (eg. PRINCE, APM, Agile) or relevant experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with a specialist IMT/business management qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
- PRINCE 2
- Clinical Systems
- General Management
- Ability to solve complex analytical problems; independently analyse information; oversee and control testing/options appraisals and make recommendations based on all analysis.
- Good team leadership, co-ordination and motivation skills. Good team player.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 13d ago · Closes in 2d
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Job summary
This role is open to all applicants. However, in line with Cornwall First recruitment principles, initial shortlisting will prioritise applicants from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and the Integrated Care Board for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Newsflash - exciting opportunities to join our eCare Team!
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is continuing its digital and clinical transformation journey that will change the way in which we deliver care across Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, and the South West Peninsula.
We are seeking a highly motivated Digital Elective Care Lead with a strong understanding of NHS administrative and clerical processes and excellent communication skills. This pivotal role will support the Trust in transitioning from PAS to eCare, driving service transformation and ensuring elective care processes align with programme objectives.
This is a fixed term contract until 30 April 2027.
We recognise this is a challenging time within the Trust and we welcome applications from our internal workforce who may feel uncertain in their current roles. We will welcome you into the programme and support you throughout. Please reach out to us if you like a further conversation about these opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The Digital Elective Care Lead will report into the eCare Elect
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