Project Manager

Company Description

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Job Description

NHS Band 7 Salary:  £49,387 - £56,515 per annum 

Hours Per Week:      37.5 full time

Contract Type:    Temporary for 6 months (Secondment Considered)

The Wessex Kidney Centre (WKC) is centred in premises at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The WKC provides a comprehensive renal service to an adult population of approximately 2.3 million, covering the majority of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and the adjacent parts of Wiltshire, West Sussex, Berkshire, Surrey and East Dorset. There are 800 patients in the dialysis programme (600 on in centre haemodialysis and 200 on home therapies (peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis) There are 1200 patients with functioning transplants. The Unit takes on around 110 new patients with end stage renal failure per million adult population per year and undertakes approximately 110 kidney transplants per year. 

Specific Core Functions

• Owning the planning of the project, developing the project initiation document and agreeing project milestones, timelines and resources.
• Lead the facilitation of changes to business processes needed to realise the benefits from new digital technology
• Actively managing relationships with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders both within the trust and in other partner organisations.
• Leading the recruitment of project resources and managing their contribution to project delivery.
• Owning the development of key project documentation including project initiation document, risk and issue logs, financial tracker and benefits log.
• Identifying and mitigating issues and, when necessary, escalating them to the project board for support.
• Monitoring plans and overall progress and use of resources, taking corrective action where necessary to ensure that the deliverables of the project are produced on time, within budget and to the expected quality.
• Applying trust project management methodology (PRINCE2 and Agile) and sharing expertise to support development of junior colleagues.
• Managing the procurement process where necessary, working with external suppliers to hold them accountable for delivery of their scope of work.
• Identifying dependencies with other projects within and outside the digital transformation portfolio and working with peer project managers and the programme manager to ensure they are met.
• Communicating project plans, progress and issues through regular highlight reporting.

For full job details and person specification, please refer to enclosed job description.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent specialist knowledge.
• Evidence of further professional development.
• PRINCE2 or PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner.

Desirable

• Master's Degree

Experience

Essential

• Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to develop collaborative and effective working relationships with all project stakeholders and team members.
• Demonstrable ability to lead large, complex projects.
• Able to identify and apply project and programme methodologies with consideration to the scale and complexity of individual projects.

Desirable

• Ability to work on own initiative, leading and motivating other staff to deliver set objectives on time and within target

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of benefits planning and management.
• Knowledge of service improvement tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of gathering user requirements and of user-centred design principles.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

Desirable

• Understanding of healthcare information and information systems.
• Programme Management qualification, e.g. MSP.
• Understanding of current Information Governance legislation and policy.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026