Senior Project Manager

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead an innovative 18-month initiative enhancing PrEP delivery across multiple NHS Trusts. This role offers the opportunity to significantly impact public health policy and service accessibility, providing flexibility and autonomy in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced project manager with a background in public health.
• Formal project management qualification or substantial experience.
• Strong understanding of PrEP and healthcare initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the project delivery while ensuring milestones and objectives are met.
• Manage collaboration across multiple NHS Trusts.
• Oversee budgets and resources to ensure funding efficiency.

Skills

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Coordination

Problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Masters Degree or equivalent

PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Project Manager

The closing date is 18 July 2025

Are you an experienced project manager with a passion for driving change in healthcare? Do you want to play a key role in a ground-breaking initiative that could transform the delivery and accessibility of PrEP on a national scale? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Elton John AIDS Foundation has awarded funding for an ambitious 18-month project aimed at enhancing the delivery and uptake of PrEP across multiple NHS Trusts in Liverpool, West Sussex, and Brighton. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-profile project that has the potential to shape national policy and improve access to life-changing prevention services.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the implementation of this innovative initiative. Working across several NHS Trusts over a wide geographical area, you will be responsible for ensuring seamless collaboration.

This hybrid role offers a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, with the expectation of some travel to partner organisations and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic and operational delivery of the project, ensuring all milestones and objectives are met.
• Coordinate and facilitate collaboration across multiple NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards, fostering strong partnerships and shared learning.
• Oversee the integration of PrEP services into Women's Health Hubs and targeted primary care services for asylum seekers and refugee populations.
• Manage project governance, reporting, and evaluation to demonstrate impact and inform future national policy.
• Engage with a range of stakeholders, including clinical teams, commissioners, community organisations, and policymakers.
• Identify and mitigate risks to project delivery, ensuring challenges are proactively addressed.
• Oversee budgets, resources, and project timelines to ensure efficient use of funding.
• Champion best practices in equality, diversity, and inclusion to maximise the impact of PrEP access for all communities.
• Support the implementation of digital PrEP pathways, including the expansion of the PrEP EmERGE platform.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an individual who is:

• An experienced project manager with a track record of delivering complex, multi-partner projects in a healthcare or public health setting.
• A skilled coordinator who can bring together multiple organisations and stakeholders to achieve a common goal.
• A strategic thinker who can navigate the complexities of NHS structures and public health initiatives.
• A confident communicator with the ability to engage and influence a diverse range of stakeholders.
• A problem solver who can anticipate challenges and proactively develop solutions.
• Passionate about health equity and access, with a strong understanding of PrEP, HIV prevention, and public health priorities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters Degree or equivalent
• Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects

Experience

• Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
• Experience of managing a project team
• Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
• Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
• Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
• Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution
• Experience of working in a NHS environment
• A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care

Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge and indepth Substantial experience of working in a project environment

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
• Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
• Ability to present project management techniques and tools
• Ability to discuss project management technical details with non technical users.
• Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience

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.

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