Project Manager
Job summary
Band 7: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (effective from 01/04/2026)
Hours Per Week: 37.5 full time
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Base: Block 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN
Working as part of the digital programme team, the project manager will lead the day-to-day management of all aspects of Digital Transformation project(s). Under the delegated responsibility of the project board, you will take one large scheme or multiple smaller schemes within the Digital Transformation programme through the full project lifecycle from business case, through planning, delivery and ultimately project closure.
Main duties of the job
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.
- Actively managing relationships with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
- 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.
About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
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, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communica tion and Working Rela tionships:
- Responsible for engagement of clinical and non-clinical stakeholders across the organisation and wider health system, managing their potentially conflicting views and priorities.
- Development of communications plans, reflecting the information needs of all stakeholders.
- Responsible for producing clear, concise highlight reports on plans, progress, risks and issues for the project board and exception reports where project tolerances are breached.
- Rapidly building strong relationships with all parties - staff, contractors, suppliers and other project stakeholders - to actively manage their contributions to project deliverables.
- Able to present clearly and persuasively (both formally and informally) to stakeholders within the trust and wider healthcare system the benefits, plans and progress of projects.
- Manage difficult situations and sensitive matters when liaising with operational staff to identify efficiencies and other matters that may lead to an operational change.
- Able to use enhanced communication skills to communicate highly complex and sometimes continuous information which may or may not require negotiation and persuasive skills.
- Analy tical and Judgement:
- Required to monitoring the delivery of all elements of schemes, analysing large amounts of complex information, from multiple sources and often under pressure of time, to identify risks and issues that might derail the project.
- Identify and manage interdependencies and prioritise actions to mitigate these, escalating to the project board for support when required.
- Drawing on expert support where needed, analyse, map and review current state processes and pathways across multidisciplinary teams.
- Work with relevant leads to identify benefits from project activities and ensure that these are documented and actively managed.
- Required to use own judgment and to interpret and analyse highly complex facts and undertake research to compare these to different options available.
Planning and organising:
- Responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day reporting of project(s) ensuring the project remains within agreed tolerances for time, budget and scope and, where this is at risk, developing alternative plans and submitting exceptions reports to the project board for consideration.
- Create, launch and execute robust project plans, articulating milestones, timescales, stakeholders etc., using appropriate project management methodologies that consider differing views of project stakeholders.
- Ensuring all risk and issues are documented and those that need them have mitigation plans in place.
Please refer to the full job description before applying for this role.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
- 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.
- Understanding of healthcare information and information systems.
- Programme Management qualification (e.g. MSP).
- Understanding of current Information Governance legislation and policy.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree or equivalent specialist knowledge.
- Evidence of further professional development.
- PRINCE2 or PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner.
Experience
- 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.
- Ability to work on own initiative, leading and motivating other staff to deliver set objectives on time and within target.
Employer details
Employer name
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Address
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
Portsmouth
PO6 3LY
Employer's website
https://www.iow.nhs.uk/