Senior Project Manager – Transformation: Sponsorship Available

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen within the Transformation Programme Team for a full time, permanent Band 7 Senior Project Manager. This post will play a key system-wide leadership and development role in the planning, development and implementation of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme across North Yorkshire and York.

The successful postholder will work as part of a busy programme team, work in partnership with partners and stakeholders across Voluntary, Community, Primary Care and Secondary Care services to help realise our collective ambition to develop neighbourhood based community mental health services, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery, improving patient experience and their outcomes.

You will possess highly developed leadership skills and project management expertise and have a commitment to successfully delivering compassionate and recovery focused care. You will be expected to support the development of services and staff to plan, develop and support the transformation of services in North Yorkshire and York.

A commitment to meaningful engagement and co-production with partner agencies, service-users, carers and other stakeholders to help deliver and continuously improve our services is essential.

Experience of operational management, project management and a willingness to work to a recovery focused model is essential.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will project manage one or more specific large-scale projects, helping to develop the project’s business case and ensuring that the outputs specified in the business case are delivered on time and to specification.

The project(s) may be part of a programme, or stand-alone reporting directly to EMT. The post holder will have a high level of autonomy in decision-making, making recommendations to the Trust on implementation at a strategic level.

You will keep the relevant Programme or Project Board and/or Locality Management and Governance Board and/or Trust Executive Management Team aware of progress and risks (escalating as appropriate).

In addition to this, the postholder will ensure the Trust’s project management framework is fully utilised and that the planning, monitoring and governance of the project are carried out in line with relevant Trust policies and procedures, raising any concerns to senior management level in a timely manner.

You will establish and sustain effective arrangements to plan, manage and monitor the outputs of any workstreams that underpin the project, ensuring that they deliver the required outputs to the agreed specification and deadlines.

You will manage the project’s budget appropriately and carry out the role of Authorised Signatory in accordance with Trust policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to postgraduate diploma level in a relevant subject
  • Evidence of training in programme or project management principles and techniques
  • The Trust’s QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders Certificate (or willing to achieve within agreed timescale)

Desirable

  • Project Management qualification
  • Quality improvement qualification, or evidence of training in quality improvement principles and techniques

Experience

Essential

  • Developing and monitoring complex programme or project plans
  • Experience of producing written reports and relating to complex information and data
  • Experience of producing written reports and relating to complex information and data

Desirable

  • Experience of developing project scopes, initiation documents and business cases

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the issues and context underlying the specific programme/projects to be managed
  • Has understanding of nationally recognised project management systems.
  • Understanding of the political and managerial context of the NHS and drivers of reform and change within the NHS

Desirable

  • Understanding of mental health and/or learning disability issues and services

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

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