Project Manager
Job summary
Ensure projects are initiated and delivered in line with the organisation's project management framework and standards. Monitor and manage project progress against objectives, keeping stakeholders fully informed of progress, risks, issues, and dependencies. Collaborate with stakeholders to define detailed project scope, requirements, and acceptance criteria linked to business benefits. Coordinate project team activities, allocate resources, and manage budgets and financial targets. Prepare and present project information to programme boards and support effective decision-making. Maintain accurate project documentation, plans, and records using project management tools. Identify and track financial benefits, including measurable outcomes such as cost savings and efficiencies. Support organisational change and transition, including service design, go-live readiness, and post-implementation activities. Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships to maximise value delivery. Attend CAB and contribute to release management, prioritisation, testing, and validation. Provide project management support across the organisation and assist the Portfolio Manager in team capability development.
Main duties of the job
The Project Manager is responsible for delivering IT projects in line with agreed timeframes, scope, and budget. The role provides professional project management expertise across the organisation, working closely with key stakeholders to drive engagement, alignment, and adherence to delivery processes. This includes ensuring projects have clear objectives, well-defined scope, measurable benefits, and effective transition into live service, while supporting the wider change framework and team capability development.
About us
Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS
Job description
Job responsibilities
Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS
Person Specification
Qualifications
- DevOps/software development practices
Experience
- Agile, PRINCE2 or hybrid methodologies
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Cora Health Group Limited
Address
Quorum Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE12 8EU
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://www.corahealth.co.uk/