Job Opportunity: Senior IT Project Manager - Technical Dress Rehearsal (TDR) Lead

This is a rare and important opportunity to play a significant role in one of the most transformative digital health initiatives at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT). As a Senior IT Project Manager acting as Technical Dress Rehearsal (TDR) Lead, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing the rehearsal activity required to confirm that end-user hardware, technical readiness and local issue resolution processes are in place for all EPR go-live locations.

Reporting Structure

Reporting directly to the EPR Technology Programme Manager, the post holder, working closely with the End User Technology (EUT) Lead, IT workstreams, deployment teams, estates colleagues and external providers, will be responsible for ensuring that TDR activity is delivered to plan, that issues are captured and tracked through to resolution, and that clear escalation routes are in place when progress is at risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day project management leadership for Technical Dress Rehearsal activity across all LGT go-live locations, ensuring end-user hardware and associated technical readiness are tested, issues are logged, and remedial actions are tracked through to resolution.
• Develop and maintain detailed TDR plans, activity, schedules, test scripts, issue logs, escalation routes and daily progress reporting in line with EPR programme governance and recognised project management standards.
• Create clear escalation plans and recovery actions when TDR progress moves off track.
• Implement TDR activity from planning through to completion, including coordination of test execution, issue triage, fixer allocation, retesting and transition of unresolved go-live issues into the appropriate support route.