Clinical Project Manager – Neobadger

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Part time

Job summary

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Band 7 Clinical Project Manager to lead the Neonatal BadgerNet Electronic Patient Record implementation across the Women and Children’s Care Group. The post involves part-time work (22.5 hours/week) with out-of-hours support to ensure go-live milestones are achieved.

You will manage day-to-day project delivery, coordinate multiple workstreams, monitor milestones, and manage risks and issues while engaging clinical teams and

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife with current NMC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role.
• Recognised project management qualification (PRINCE2, APM or AgilePM).
• Qualification or training in change management/improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, NHS Improvement).
• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant clinical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of the Neonatal BadgerNet Electronic Patient Record implementation, coordinating with the Neonatal clinical team and stakeholders.
• Coordinate project workstreams and delivery against milestones.
• Monitor progress, identify, manage and escalate risks and issues.
• Chair project meetings and maintain clear actions and updates.
• Build effective relationships across clinical, operational and digital teams.
• Support staff engagement and change management, ensuring readiness for implementation.
• Produce project reports and assurance updates for key stakeholders.
• Support training and readiness activities for implementation.
• Apply project management and service improvement approaches to drive change.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Communication

Education

NMC registration

Tools

BadgerNet EPR

Job description

Main area Digital Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (due to short term funding. Secondments considered for internal applicants) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (plus out of hours working to support delivery of go live / cutovers) Job ref 223-PMN-801

Site The Shrewsbury Business Park Town Shrewsbury Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rota Salary period Yearly Closing 02/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

We are seeking a part time experienced Band 7 Clinical Project Manager – Neonatal BadgerNet to lead and support implementation of the Neonatal BadgerNet Electronic Patient Record across the Women and Children’s Care Group.

The postholder will provide day-to-day project management, coordinating workstreams, monitoring milestones, managing risks and issues, and ensuring key actions are delivered on time.

Working closely with the Neonatal clinical team and wider stakeholders, the role will support digital transformation and service improvement across the neonatal pathway. The postholder will facilitate project meetings, support staff engagement and help ensure safe and effective implementation of the system.

The successful candidate will have strong project management, communication, stakeholder engagement and change-management skills, with the ability to work across professional boundaries and manage competing priorities.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a major digital transformation programme supporting improved clinical documentation, more efficient ways of working and enhanced neonatal services.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will lead the day-to-day delivery of the Neonatal BadgerNet Electronic Patient Record implementation, working closely with the Neonatal clinical team and key stakeholders across the Trust.

Key responsibilities include:

• Coordinating project workstreams and delivery against agreed milestones.
• Monitoring progress and identifying, managing and escalating risks and issues.
• Chairing project meetings and maintaining clear actions and updates.
• Building effective relationships across clinical, operational and digital teams.
• Supporting staff engagement, change management and implementation activity.
• Producing project reports and assurance updates for key stakeholders.
• Supporting training and readiness for implementation.
• Using project management and service improvement approaches to support effective change.

The role is key to maintaining momentum and ensuring the Neonatal BadgerNet programme is delivered safely, effectively and within agreed timescales.

Working for our organisation

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife with current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role
• Recognised project management qualification e.g. PRINCE2, APM or AgilePM
• Qualification or training in change management / improvement methodology e.g. Lean, Six Sigma or NHS Improvement
• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant clinical discipline

Experience

• Significant experience of project management within a healthcare or clinical environment
• Proven experience of leading and delivering projects or programmes of change from planning through to implementation
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders across different professional groups and levels of seniority
• Experience of managing project plans, milestones, risks, issues and dependencies
• Experience of implementing a clinical information system / Electronic Patient Record
• Understanding of neonatal clinical systems and pathways
• Knowledge of NHS Digital / NHS England transformation priorities or local digital strategies
• Experience of organisation-wide digital or transformation programmes

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If the role requires a qualification/professional registration, you will need to provide proof during the recruitment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.

We are committed to offering an interview to applicants from the Armed Forces community who meet the minimum criteria for the position. In addition, for those who are successfully appointed from the Armed Forces community, the Trust are committed to recognising previous service and rank in terms of pay, annual leave and other terms and conditions.

We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from an Ethnic minority background are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace, that attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise a fair and equitable process that balances your needs, the needs of our patients and service delivery.

Our Commitment to Safety and Respect - The Trust is a signatory to the NHS Sexual Safety Charter and is committed to providing a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace, free from sexual misconduct, harassment and discrimination. We expect everyone working, training or learning within the Trust to uphold appropriate professional boundaries, demonstrate respectful behaviour and contribute to a culture in which colleagues feel safe to speak up.

Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.