Project Manager

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a skilled Project Manager to join their Business Development team. This role requires close collaboration across various teams to deliver projects effectively, particularly focusing on Bids and Tenders. Candidates should have strong project management skills, experience handling sensitive information, and the ability to work flexibly in a challenging environment. This position offers an opportunity to impact health services positively while leading initiatives that drive organizational growth.

Qualifications

• Must have significant experience in project and/or contract management.
• Experience working with diverse professional groups and organisations is required.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise effectively.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project management tasks to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Collaborate with the Strategy and Partnerships Team across LPT and NHFT.
• Lead and support projects, including Bids and Tenders.
• Ensure strong governance for joint services.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Project management methodologies

Microsoft Office proficiency

Negotiation skills

Teamwork

Education

Project management qualification (PRINCE2 or MSP)

Job description

Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Project Manager

The closing date is 22 December 2025

Our Business Development team is looking to recruit a skilled individual who wants to work with us within to deliver outstanding project management.

Our Project Manager is a core member of our small team. Working flexibly across the Group (LPT and NHFT) you will work on a range of specific projects including Bids and Tenders, you will lead some projects, and you will support others. Our work covers 4 main areas; business development, this includes:

• Working in partnership internally and with other stakeholders to deliver joint services
• Working internally and with other stakeholders to ensure we have strong governance systems and process for delivering joint working
• Bidding and retaining our existing services if they are procured
• Identifying new opportunities to win new business.

Main duties of the job

• You must have a high attention to detail; Microsoft Office skills and be willing to work flexibly across different locations across Northamptonshire and Leicestershire and occasionally in the East Midlands.
• You will possess excellent communication skills, organisation, creative and forward thinking in a varied and fast paced environment.
• You will understand project management and analyse information and provide reports to the management team on the status and progress of projects.
• You must have demonstrable skills of working in partnership, with experience of handling confidential and commercially sensitive information.
• We expect a typical week with us, you could be supporting a project helping with the writing of a proposal or reviewing previous learning. You could be leading projects or supporting others to help us become more successful in the future, attending internal team meetings where you represent the Strategy & Partnership team, and representing NHFT and LPT alone at partnership meetings with other organisations.
• You will be joining a small and busy team. We encourage you to get to know us as part of your application. Our team support both LPT and NHFT to deliver our new Group THRIVE Strategy.
• You will report to the Head of Strategy and Partnerships, and work closely with all the team including, David Williams, Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships. You will line manage the Strategy and Partnerships Business Administrator.

About us

• NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
• NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

Work with the Strategy and Partnerships Team across both LPT and NHFT to ensure delivery of agreed projects and programmes of work including Bids and Tenders.

Work with colleagues to ensure a cohesive approach to identifying and monitoring bid development, transformation and improvement programmes within Strategy and Partnerships.

Work with directorates/teams to ensure full clinical engagement, ownership and implementation of transformation and improvement and in the development of new Bids and Tenders.

Contribute to increasing project management capability and capacity within the Trust by providing a range of support to a range of staff/colleagues; including facilitating and delivering designated Leadership matters training, such as: Bids and Tenders, PMO Project Management and Leading Successful Change.

To work together with staff within the team, some of which you may line manage, to develop and grow the team ethos.

Contribute to the development and delivery of the Group strategy and develop positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to implement the strategy.

Contribute to strategic development of Group transformation programmes, developing Group wide policies, procedures and governance arrangements where appropriate.

Be a role model for positive change management behaviours.

Ensure any change management programmes are focused on the needs of the target audients, to deliver positive outcomes.

Develop a partnership approach through the delivery of bids and tenders, projects and programmes.

Seek and create opportunities to receive feedback and take proactive action for improvement.

Lead projects/programmes including Bids and Tenders as necessary to ensure plans are robust and sufficiently detailed to provide the assurance that delivery will result in desired improvements, developments and benefits.

Responsible for contribution to the development of policies and implementation of projects that will have a significant impact on the business processes of the organization(s).

Responsible for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a range of information in relation to projects/programmes.

Responsible for ensuring transformation and service improvement projects/programmes are in line with the Group strategy, corporate objectives and contribute to the delivery of the transformation and CIP programmes and support the achievement of KPIs.

Responsible for ensuring that the relevant impact assessments and other project documentation is completed at the relevant stages of projects/programmes (following the NHFT/LPT PMO Framework).

Ensure project plans are in line with the overall strategic direction of the Group.

Ensure full implementation of these plans through effective performance management arrangements.

Responsible for the line management of designated staff within the team.

Act as a champion for project/programme management and transformational change.

Lead on change programmes and Bids and Tenders on behalf of Strategy and Partnerships, providing training and advice to senior managers and directorate leads as required.

Lead on broader areas of service improvement and transformation on behalf of Strategy and Partnerships, ensuring that change management resulting from service improvement and transformation is delivered

Responsible for the delivery of a range of transformation, improvement and service development projects/programmes across the Group in partnership with corporate, operational and clinical teams as required by Strategy and Partnerships.

Identify new opportunities for efficiencies and productivity, leading on plans for the delivery of these.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Excellent standard of English - written, spoken and grammar
• Knowledge of how NHS providers are commissioned to deliver services.
• Significant experience of project and/or contract management.
• Project management qualification such as PRINCE2 or MSP
• Evidence of recent and on-going C.P.D. / Learning.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Knowledge of project management methodologies.

Experience

• Negotiating and influencing change by working with diverse professional groups and organisations
• Experience of coordinating and leading meetings.
• Experience of working with managers and leaders from across organisations.
• Proven track record and significant experience of successful partnership working.
• Significant experience of project and/or contract management.
• Prioritisation skills with ability to manage multiple projects

Skills

• Able to clearly communicate complex information verbally, in writing and electronically in appropriate formats.
• Proven team worker with ability to motivate others
• Negotiating and influencing change by working with diverse professional groups and organisations
• Highly developed presentation skills
• Communicate with empathy in potentially demanding and challenging situations.
• To work unsupervised in an autonomous manner

Behaviours and values

• Able to demonstrate positive leadership qualities time as part of an empowered team.
• Approachable and accessible to service users & colleagues.
• Reliable and consistent in approach, demonstrating empathy and an open communication style.
• Ability to accept challenge and to challenge others in a constructive and considered manner.
• Ability to travel between venues and the use of you own car for work purposes
• Flexible, enthusiastic and committed
• Communicate with empathy in potentially demanding and challenging situations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Full-time,Home or remote working,Compressed hours