Project Manager (Digital)

NHS; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Surrey is seeking a Project Manager for its Digital Department. The role involves managing digital projects, improving collaboration, and ensuring efficient processes within the Trust. Candidates should have a degree and experience in project management methodologies. A competitive salary and supportive work environment are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Free parking

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience of project management in a complex organisation.
• Significant experience of using a range of project management methodologies.
• Experience of planning, implementing and delivering complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management to the Digital Department.
• Establish effective working relationships across the organization.
• Drive and coordinate planning and delivery of Digital projects.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodologies

Complex problem solving

Education

Educated to Degree level

Certification in Project Management (Agile, PRINCE2)

Job description

Overview

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Project Manager (Digital)

The closing date is 12 October 2025

Our digital strategy focuses on creating a digital environment that simplifies processes, enhances collaboration, and ensures staff can focus on delivering high-quality care without being burdened by unnecessary administrative tasks or inefficient systems. Our Electronic Health Record (EHR) support services within the Digital division aim to improve collaboration and communication between EHR facing teams and, as a result, the quality of support provided to frontline staff. A Digital Project Management Office (PMO) has been introduced to better manage the numerous, complex projects within the division and support effective delivery of digital projects, programmes, and workstreams in Trust projects.

This selection process will include a short interview and a Test on the 17th October. The successful candidates from this round will then be invited to attend a further full panel interview on the 27th October.

Main duties of the job

Provide project management to the Digital Department, working across the Digital Directorate and with stakeholders in the Trust and beyond.

Establish and maintain a wide range of effective working relationships across SABP, delivering a range of digital projects and/or digital workstreams within trust agreed programmes of work.

Use an appropriate project management methodology to manage allocated projects through their lifecycle from inception to delivery.

Drive and coordinate the planning and delivery of a range of Digital projects including developing project plans to ensure delivery against key project milestones using appropriate project planning approaches.

Deal with highly complex information, understand interdependencies between initiatives and projects, and have possibly contentious conversations with colleagues on delivery status.

Facilitate and enable high-level thinking, visioning and problem solving in sessions designed to encourage the right kind of discussions with clear objectives and outputs.

Provide project management and support to technical teams and the wider Digital Directorate including planning, implementation, project progress reporting and presentations.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental health, learning disability and community trusts to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

Note: See the job description and person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level
• Certification in Project Management (Agile Project Management, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP or similar) or equivalent experience

Qualifications

• Experience of project management in a complex organisation
• Significant experience of using a range of project management methodologies in a complex organisation
• Experience of planning, implementing and delivering a range of complex projects
• Experience of working in a project environment

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

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£50,008 to £56,908 a year incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.