Project Manager

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks a motivated Project Manager to support clinical teams in project delivery. The role entails planning and managing IT projects within NHS, ensuring compliance and developing relationships with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have strong project management skills with experience in NHS settings.

Benefits

First-class development opportunities

Healthy work-life balance

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Significant IT project management experience in complex NHS hospital environment.
• Experience delivering IM&T projects of at least £100k or involving over 20 stakeholders.
• Knowledge of formal risk management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Comprehensive planning, organisation, and delivery of a range of projects.
• Ensuring successful progression of projects from initiation to completion.
• Monitoring and evaluating project performance and compliance with NHS policies.

Skills

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Leadership

Negotiation

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Prince 2 Practitioner

ITIL v2 or v3 Foundation Certification

Job description

Job Overview

Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) is a joint venture between Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, delivering pathology services to both acute and primary care patients across the network area. Currently the team is split across these sites and you may be asked to work at any of the sites so that services can be maintained.

We need a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to help us support our clinical colleagues and laboratory teams with project delivery.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate an understanding of Project Management methodology with good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team or to lead the project teams involved in the design, integration and implementation of new systems. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, as dealing with a wide range of clinical staff and associated professionals is a significant aspect of this role.

Main duties of the job

The role involves the comprehensive planning, organisation, and delivery of a range of projects spanning short, medium, and long-term timeframes. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful progression of projects from initiation through to completion, managing all aspects to achieve defined objectives. This includes developing detailed project plans, setting milestones, and coordinating resources efficiently to meet deadlines and budget constraints.

You will act as the key point of contact for stakeholders, maintaining clear and consistent communication to ensure alignment with organisational priorities and NHS standards. Monitoring and evaluating project performance is essential, requiring the identification and mitigation of risks and issues to maintain progress and quality outcomes.

The postholder will ensure compliance with NHS policies, governance frameworks, and statutory requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and departments is critical, fostering a culture of shared accountability and continuous improvement.

Additionally, you will provide regular updates and reports to senior management, supporting informed decision-making and facilitating strategic planning. This role demands strong leadership, organisational skills, and the ability to adapt to changing demands within a dynamic healthcare environment.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent experience
• Prince 2 Practitioner
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ITIL v2 or v3 Foundation Certification or higher
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant IT project management experience - in complex NHS hospital environment or equivalent
• Experience of delivering and completing IM&T projects of at least £100k in value or involving over 20 stakeholders
• Evidence of managing multiple projects
• Experience of developing and delivering communication strategy for a project
• Knowledge of formal risk management methodologies
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to develop highly effective relationships with key stakeholders including consultants, senior nurses and senior managers
• Confident to deliver presentations to large groups including Board members (executive and non- executive)
• Good leadership and communication skills with experience of dealing directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent negotiation skills and the ability to deal with conflict and build consensus
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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