TCD Senior Project Manager

Job overview

12‑month fixed term contract, 37.5 hours per week, at University Hospital at Edward Jenner Court, Brockworth, Gloucester. Salary £57,528 – £64,750 per annum.

Senior Project Manager to convene and manage project teams and provide project management support to operational and business leads within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to enable delivery of the Trust’s Transforming Care Digitally Programme.

Main duties of the job

• Convene and manage project teams and coordinate with clinical, operational, digital and system teams to improve care pathways.
• Provide project management support, ensuring compliance with NHS technical standards and line‑manage digital change staff.
• Identify, track and realise financial benefits.
• Act as conduit to wider project teams, ensuring continuity and quality across the Programme.
• Support the Programme Manager and act as an escalation point.
• Work with local and national groups (ICS, third‑sector partners, NHS national teams) to explain complex plans.
• Plan and organise complex activities using best practice tools and techniques.
• Facilitate workshops, presentations and collaborative working to improve services.
• Develop project plans, PIDs and business cases; provide reporting and standard project management products.
• Manage budgets, risk assessments, benefits delivery and BAU transition; ensure governance documentation is in place.
• Matrix‑manage multidisciplinary workstream delivery teams.

Qualifications, training & experience required

• Degree level education or equivalent specialist knowledge.
• Experience managing multiple projects, delivered in line with recognised project management methodology.
• Recognised qualification: APM, Prince2, MSP or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development.
• Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience and knowledge

• Hands‑on project management, service development, transformation and change management.
• Leadership of digital change projects and teams.
• Collaborative working across organisational, regional and national boundaries.
• Experience creating HM Treasury 5‑case model documentation for central funding applications.
• Benefits identification, management and realisation.
• Substantial NHS experience in major projects and transformational change within and across healthcare organisations.

Professional & managerial knowledge

• Expertise in delivering projects in complex environments.
• Budgetary management.
• Process design and implementation.
• Strategic problem solving and risk assessment.
• Communicating, negotiating and influencing at all levels.
• Analytical synthesis of complex information.
• Decision making in a dynamic environment.
• Computer literacy: Teams, Project, Office, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of NHS policy change management and service redesign.
• Regulated services delivery knowledge and enterprise digital systems.
• Understanding of NHS modernisation issues.
• Building effective relationships with diverse colleagues.

Personal skills, abilities and attributes

• Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation skills.
• Analytical skills to diagnose problems and recommend solutions.
• Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities.
• Planning and organisational skills.
• Self‑motivated, adaptable, resilient and able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Ability to influence change and lead people not directly managed.

Other requirements

• Occasional contact with patients or experts by experience.
• Interpret and enforce Trust policies, government regulations and governance documentation.
• Financial plan and target oversight with corporate accountant.
• Flexible working across all Trust sites.

Benefits

• Competitive salary £57,528 – £64,750 per annum.
• Full‑time: 37.5 hours per week.
• £58,000 annual pension contribution, enhanced pay for unsocial hours.
• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days with long service.
• Free car parking at many sites.
• Training and development programmes, including Level 7 apprenticeships.
• Preceptorship programme for newly qualified staff.
• Flexible, family‑friendly and agile working opportunities.
• Recognition and long‑service awards.
• Fast‑track physiotherapy and access to discounts and salary‑sacrifice schemes.

Other employment information

The postholder will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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