Senior Project Manager — Patient Flow Transformation (Hybrid)

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuffield Health is seeking a Senior Project Manager (Project Flow) for a 14-month fixed-term contract in London. You will lead initiatives to improve patient flow across hospital networks, shaping delivery plans and coordinating across clinical, operational and technology teams to deliver value early and sustain strategic foundations.

You will manage budgets, governance, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring timely delivery, quality outcomes and clear reporting to Executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of value engineering complex programmes.
• Experience mobilising and managing large-scale transformation programmes with multiple workstreams.
• Strong expertise in programme planning, delivery sequencing and managing critical paths across complex initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in resource planning, workforce mobilisation and coordinating cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong financial management including budget ownership, forecasting and reporting.
• Experience establishing governance structures and programme reporting frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Ability to collaborate across clinical, operational, support and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape and value-engineer the programme, prioritising initiatives for high-value early outcomes.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans across multiple workstreams.
• Manage interdependencies, risks and issues to meet timelines, budgets and quality.
• Create resource plans and coordinate workforce across the programme.
• Collaborate with leaders to secure and optimise resources and costs.
• Establish governance, RAID processes and reporting for informed decisions.
• Lead stakeholder engagement with Executive-level stakeholders and senior leaders.

Skills

Value engineering

Large-scale programmes

Programme planning

Delivery sequencing

Critical paths

Resource planning

Workforce mobilisation

Cross-functional delivery

Budget ownership

Governance

Stakeholder management

Education

Project management qualification (PRINCE2/MSP/Agile)

Tools

PRINCE2

Agile

MSP

Job description

Nuffield Health is seeking a Senior Project Manager (Project Flow) for a 14-month fixed-term contract in London. You will lead initiatives to improve patient flow across hospital networks, shaping delivery plans and coordinating across clinical, operational and technology teams to deliver value early and sustain strategic foundations.

You will manage budgets, governance, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring timely delivery, quality outcomes and clear reporting to Executive leadership.