TCD Senior Project Manager
Posted 3 hours 38 minutes ago by NHS
Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
Gloucestershire, Gloucester, United Kingdom, GL1 1
Job Description
TCD Senior Project Manager The closing date is 30 November 2025
1x fixed term contract for up to 12 months
The Senior Project Manager will convene and manage project teams and provide project management support to the operational and business leads within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to enable the delivery of the Trust's Transforming Care Digitally Programme.
To deliver Digital system and service optimisations to support service improvements in line with local strategies and government initiatives which will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.
The post holder will support performance improvements across the organisation as required.
As Senior Project Manager for the Programme supporting Project Managers and support officers as part of escalation or Programme direction setting is key.
Main duties of the job Management of the delivery of Transforming Care Digitally projects working with clinical, operational, clinical system and digital teams to improve care pathways across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Supporting the Programme Manager through acting as a conduit to the wider Project Teams ensuring continuity and quality across the Programme. The Senior Project Manager must ensure compliance with NHS technical and will have accountability for staff, including line management and professional supervision of digital change delivery staff, as well as occasional matrix management of digital portfolio project staff. Additionally, the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the identification, tracking, and realisation of financial benefits.
About us We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
Job responsibilities To formulate, develop and adjust project plans and strategies to be delivered via Final Business Cases (FBC) and Project Initiation Documents (PID).
To plan and organise a broad range of complex activities using best practice project management tools and techniques.
To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; agreement or co-operation required; present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to groups.
To encourage collaborative working to improve services/performance where there may be resistance to change.
To present at and facilitate workshops to large groups of staff and diverse audiences.
To plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning.
To support the Programme through a senior role within the Project delivery teams ensuring continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.
To provide continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.
To work with local and national groups as required e.g., Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS), third sector partners and NHS national teams, sharing complicated plans that need explanation.
To work collaboratively with operational service staff to ensure their involvement in the development of services.
To communicate effectively with stakeholders enhancing the Trusts business where possible.
To inform services, key stakeholders, and others on service direction even if this is unwelcome news.
To monitor all aspects of project and business development and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken and acted upon.
To ensure that workforce development issues are considered and managed within the business and project development, e.g., training, workforce planning and appropriate recruitment.
To ensure that Business As Usual (BAU) Transition, Information Governance and Cyber documentation and agreements are in place prior to go live.
To effectively and efficiently manage budgets in accordance with standing financial instructions.
To analyse facts or situations and develop options and mitigations for consideration.
To be responsible for ensuring the identification, delivery and monitoring including transition to BAU of project Benefits.
To participate in identified meetings as required.
To deliver standard Project Management products such as, but not limited to, highlight reports and exception reports.
Matrix-manage multidisciplinary workstream delivery teams from Operational and Digital Services delivery teams.
To facilitate a Project Managers Peer to Peer community with the Programme.
Person Specification Qualifications
1x fixed term contract for up to 12 months
The Senior Project Manager will convene and manage project teams and provide project management support to the operational and business leads within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to enable the delivery of the Trust's Transforming Care Digitally Programme.
To deliver Digital system and service optimisations to support service improvements in line with local strategies and government initiatives which will require a high level of planning, negotiating, analytical and communication skills.
The post holder will support performance improvements across the organisation as required.
As Senior Project Manager for the Programme supporting Project Managers and support officers as part of escalation or Programme direction setting is key.
Main duties of the job Management of the delivery of Transforming Care Digitally projects working with clinical, operational, clinical system and digital teams to improve care pathways across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Supporting the Programme Manager through acting as a conduit to the wider Project Teams ensuring continuity and quality across the Programme. The Senior Project Manager must ensure compliance with NHS technical and will have accountability for staff, including line management and professional supervision of digital change delivery staff, as well as occasional matrix management of digital portfolio project staff. Additionally, the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the identification, tracking, and realisation of financial benefits.
About us We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
Job responsibilities To formulate, develop and adjust project plans and strategies to be delivered via Final Business Cases (FBC) and Project Initiation Documents (PID).
To plan and organise a broad range of complex activities using best practice project management tools and techniques.
To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; agreement or co-operation required; present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to groups.
To encourage collaborative working to improve services/performance where there may be resistance to change.
To present at and facilitate workshops to large groups of staff and diverse audiences.
To plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning.
To support the Programme through a senior role within the Project delivery teams ensuring continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.
To provide continuity and quality as well as an initial point of escalation.
To work with local and national groups as required e.g., Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS), third sector partners and NHS national teams, sharing complicated plans that need explanation.
To work collaboratively with operational service staff to ensure their involvement in the development of services.
To communicate effectively with stakeholders enhancing the Trusts business where possible.
To inform services, key stakeholders, and others on service direction even if this is unwelcome news.
To monitor all aspects of project and business development and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken and acted upon.
To ensure that workforce development issues are considered and managed within the business and project development, e.g., training, workforce planning and appropriate recruitment.
To ensure that Business As Usual (BAU) Transition, Information Governance and Cyber documentation and agreements are in place prior to go live.
To effectively and efficiently manage budgets in accordance with standing financial instructions.
To analyse facts or situations and develop options and mitigations for consideration.
To be responsible for ensuring the identification, delivery and monitoring including transition to BAU of project Benefits.
To participate in identified meetings as required.
To deliver standard Project Management products such as, but not limited to, highlight reports and exception reports.
Matrix-manage multidisciplinary workstream delivery teams from Operational and Digital Services delivery teams.
To facilitate a Project Managers Peer to Peer community with the Programme.
Person Specification Qualifications
- Educated to degree level, and additional knowledge acquired via formal training and accreditation at master's level, or equivalent specialist knowledge acquired through experience.
- A background in a multi project environment and experience of a wide range of projects, delivered in line with project management methodology.
- Recognised project or programme management qualification (APM, Prince 2, MSP, or equivalent)
- Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development
- Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience of hands-on project management, service development, transformation and change management, and/or business planning.
- Evidence of successfully leading and implementing Digital change projects and teams
- Experience of collaborative working across organisational, regional and national boundaries.
- Experience in creation of highly complex HM Treasury 5 case model documentation to contribute towards central funding applications.
- Experience of benefits identification, management and realisation
- Substantial NHS experience of facilitating and managing major projects and transformational change within and across healthcare organisations, effectively working in Teams at a Senior Project Level.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, delivering a range of projects in complex environment
- Knowledge and experience of budgetary management.
- Ability to create and implement processes to support strategy.
- A systematic approach to problem solving and risk assessment.
- Skills in communicating, negotiating, and influencing with impact both verbally and in writing at all levels.
- Ability to value, understand and synthesise complex information from many sources and to implement that knowledge to influence decision/developments.
- Ability to make decisions in a rapidly changing environment.
- Computer literacy to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office software (e.g., Teams, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook).
- Experience in a senior role within a project delivery team.
- Knowledge of health service policy change management and service redesign.
- A high level of knowledge of complex delivery in regulated services, with a working knowledge of enterprise digital systems and services.
- Sound understanding of the modernisation and development issues facing the NHS.
- Ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of colleagues.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written Good negotiation skills and the ability to bring people not directly managed on board with new ideas and concepts
- Analytical skills to diagnose a problem and understand complex situations or information; Judgmental skills to formulate solutions and recommend/decide on the best course of action/treatment.
- Ability to review options, appraise and offer recommendations to the organisational development team and Senior Management
- Excellent problem solving skills to ensure prompt and effective resolution of matters arising during projects
- Excellent planning and organisational skills to manage and co ordinate day to day projects and workstreams, communicating with key stakeholders, clients and other interested parties as part of that process.
- Self motivated with the ability to respond to changing situations and work to tight deadlines, constantly redefining priorities . click apply for full job details