Job Overview
You will lead the PMO to support delivery of the Trust’s Plan for Strategic Change, providing oversight, constructive challenge and assurance across key programmes and projects. Reporting to the Head of Risk and Assurance, you will provide clear portfolio reporting to the Trust Delivery Team, Executive Committee and Board, escalating risks, issues, dependencies and mitigations.
Manage the Trust’s Cost Improvement Programme (CIP), working with Finance on reporting, supporting budget holders, and providing assurance through governance forums. Based at Trust Headquarters, Welwyn Garden City, you will work across the Trust to strengthen delivery, assurance and continuous improvement.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.
Responsibilities / Accountabilities
- Lead the Trust PMO function, maintaining oversight of the delivery of programmes and projects comprising the Trust’s Plan for Strategic Change.
- Engage with Project and Programme Managers and Senior Responsible Officers to understand the scope and targeted benefits of these strategic initiatives, the status of delivery against targeted milestones and risks and issues presented.
- Provide support to project/initiative owners to evaluate project management requirements, issues or bottlenecks and find solutions to these.
- Support the Trust Delivery Team in the assessment of new proposals for projects and their prioritisation in the Trust’s Plan for Strategic Change.
- Complete in‑depth assessment of project delivery, where required, to support the resolution of issues, identify lessons learned and evaluate progress on benefits realisation during delivery and post‑implementation.
- Provide assurance to the Trust Delivery Team, Executive Management Team and Trust Board/Board Committees as to the status of the delivery of the programmes and projects and the effective application of the Trust’s Change Management standards.
- Monitor and analyse interdependencies across programmes / projects including the possible impacts on Business As Usual (BAU).
- Support the delivery of the Trust’s programme of Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs), partnering with the Finance Directorate in the definition of processes, provision of guidance to budget holders and the identification, assessment and quantification of CIPs.
- Provision of timely and insightful reporting to respective Governance forums.
- Develop and implement a PMO programme of work that prioritises activity, schedules major assurance activities and supports delivery of HCT’s strategic objectives and goals.
- Work with PMO colleagues as well as Programme and Project managers to develop and refine the Trust’s processes and tools for the management of projects and programmes.
- Champion best practice Project Management approach and support this through provision of training, guidance and support.
- Partner with colleagues in Transformation and Quality functions to support staff in developing improvement ideas and delivering change.
- Develop strong working relationships and networks with colleagues across the Trust, ensuring that the role of the PMO is communicated throughout the Trust and all staff feel able to make contact with the PMO when the need arises.
- Facilitate the sharing of lessons learned and best practice, providing advice and guidance to Programme / Project managers across the Trust to support them in identifying and delivering the changes, productivity and service improvements that the Trust requires.
Benefits
Benefits are offered to staff, in line with Trust policy.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Apr 2026.
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