Senior Project Manager

Company: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
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Location: West Bromwich
Job Description:

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager (Band 8a, 0.8 WTE) to join the Strategy and Digital Directorate as part of the Trust’s Programme Management Office (PMO).

This is a key senior role within the Trust’s transformation agenda, responsible for leading and delivering a portfolio of complex programmes, workstreams and projects that support strategic development, service improvement, productivity and financial sustainability.

The post holder will work closely with executive leaders, clinical and operational teams, and divisional leadership triumvirates to ensure that Trust-wide transformation priorities are delivered effectively, sustainably and in line with best practice project management standards.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Senior Transformational Programme Lead, the Senior Project Manager will lead multiple complex transformation workstreams across the Trust, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, milestones and benefits.

The role involves providing expert project management support to divisions and corporate directorates.

The post holder will line manage Project Managers and CIP Project Managers, providing leadership, coaching and professional oversight, while also influencing and supporting senior stakeholders to deliver change across organisational and professional boundaries.

To facilitate, support and at times lead the delivery of projects as directed.

For agreed, allocated work streams undertake the project manager role including the production of project documentation, development of project reporting structures, establishing and managing project groups, to ensure the projects and related service models will deliver project targets, service improvements for patients, sustainable change and working practices.

Provide regular reports establishing progress and highlighting any deviations from agreed milestones and an assessment of slippage on timescales. This may include meeting action notes/minutes.

Extract data from spreadsheets, analyse and collate data and provide information reports to project teams to support and influence the project.

Undertake audits and post project evaluation as appropriate to the project.

Experience

  • Multi-professional working
  • Project management
  • Working knowledge on the delivery of complex projects
  • Staff management
  • Experience of partnership working with multiple stakeholders
  • Experience of working with directors and executive directors
  • Implementation of complex projects

Qualifications

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent Professional/Clinical qualification (e.g. RGN, Allied Health Professional) or equivalent project management experience.
  • Demonstrable expertise in the tools and techniques of service Project management.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Posted: April 20th, 2026