Project Manager

Gap Personnel; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a motivated Project Manager to join a healthcare organization in Gloucester. You will support strategic projects aimed at enhancing patient care through effective leadership and stakeholder engagement. The role requires strong communication skills and experience in managing complex projects. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on healthcare services until March 2026.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Impact on healthcare services

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex projects in a large organization, ideally in the public sector.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in process mapping and using evidence to drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of strategic changes across the Capital and Estates portfolio.
• Produce high-quality project documentation to ensure full audit trails.
• Lead the development of project and communication plans.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Process mapping

Education

Degree level education

Project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2, APM)

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Project Manager to join our clientsCapital and Estates team, supporting the delivery of strategic and transformational projects that underpin excellent patient care.

Working closely with the Programme Managers and Associate Director of Estates, you will play a key role in planning, delivering, and embedding projects that improve services, facilities and ways of working. This is a dynamic position, requiring strong leadership, communication and stakeholder engagement skills to manage diverse projects within a complex healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of strategic and transformational changes across the Capital and Estates portfolio.

• Produce high-quality project documentation using toolkit templates to ensure full audit trails for all projects.

• Lead the development of project and communication plans, ensuring clear objectives and engagement at every stage.

• Establish and maintain engagement strategies to support transformation, including the facilitation of workshops and leading short-term working groups.

• Drive the development and implementation of improved and standardised ways of working across the Trust.

• Carry out process mapping and interpret complex management information to inform service improvement recommendations.

• Establish and maintain effective communication channels with multi-disciplinary teams, patients, and the public, including the management of sensitive and potentially emotive information.

Most Challenging Aspects of the Role

• Securing and sustaining stakeholder engagement and commitment to transformation and financial sustainability, while balancing competing priorities.

• Supporting and coordinating a diverse workforce across multiple sites, breaking down barriers to enable collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications & Experience

• Educated to degree level and/or equivalent project management experience at postgraduate diploma level.

• A recognised project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2, APM).

• Proven experience in managing complex projects within a large organisation, ideally within the public sector.

• Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.

• Experience of process mapping, data analysis and using evidence to drive improvement.

Why apply?

This role provides the opportunity to shape and deliver projects that make a real difference to patient care and staff experience. You will be joining a supportive, collaborative team and working in an environment that values innovation, learning and professional development.

We offer:

• Opportunities to lead and deliver high-profile projects

• A chance to make a direct impact on healthcare services within our community

This role will be until March 2026 initially.