Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join the Cambridge Children’s Hospital Project on a 12 month fixed term contract to lead its Project Management Office (PMO) function.
Cambridge Children’s aspires to be more than a hospital. Through a collaboration between CUH, CPFT and the University of Cambridge, we are seeking a visionary new approach to healthcare for children and young people across the East of England. We will treat the whole child or young person with an innovative model of co-located physical and mental healthcare and research.
The PMO manager will play a crucial role in coordinating this exciting and complex project. You will be highly organised, independent and able to work with and across multiple organisations, professions and stakeholders. You will ensure that the project takes a robust approach to project management whilst also championing the ethos and vision of the project in a supportive manner. You will including coordinating the project’s governance processes, engaging with and supporting multiple project workstreams and delivering on discrete project areas.
If you are a professional, positive-thinking individual with demonstrable relevant experience, looking for a rewarding and varied role in which you can use and develop your skills, then we are looking for you to join us.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role are to provide project management skills and expertise to support the Cambridge Children’s Hospital Project. The roles involve working with a diverse range of colleagues across partner organisations (CUH, CPFT and University of Cambridge), commissioners and regulators.
The Project Manager (PMO) role will include:
Actively liaising with project workstreams and contributing to overall planning, data analysis, risk management and project / programme coordination.
Monitoring progress against plans with the workstreams, liaising with the Programme Director / Deputy the Programme Director to ensure the plan remains on track.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent experience
- Degree level education or substantial experience in programme management and delivery or equivalent experience
- Recognised project management qualification at foundation level, e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Numerate degree or health / social care policy / commerce / business strategy
- Qualification or equivalent experience demonstrating proficiency in MS Office Applications and / or working knowledge of project management software or equivalent applications
Experience
Essential
- Experience in delivering project management practices, tools and techniques to successfully plan, manage, deliver and close medium sized projects in accordance with an organisation’s project management framework
- Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS or a health and social care services environment including on national or large-scale change management initiatives
- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services and of working via matrix management and across organisational boundaries
- Providing training to peers and colleagues
- Experience in building and maintaining working relationships across project teams and experience of prioritising and managing conflicting workload
- Budgetary management experience for a direct or delegated budget
- Experience in analysing complex data to present summaries and develop options and cost / benefit / risk appraisals
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of supporting a large-scale project – multi-year, £1m+ budget nationally
- Experience of delivering elements of change management or workforce redesign
- Consultancy based skills or experience working in a business consultancy organisation
- Experience with new models of care, national policy development and guidance
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
- Management of procedures for processing project documents, filing and archiving to organisational standards
- Knowledge of facilitation techniques and problem-solving techniques
- Advanced use of IT systems, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.) to analyse and present information
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS finance (revenue and cost models) and business case processes
- Acute provider clinical operations
- Business or process change management
Skills
Essential
- Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a results-focus
- Highly customer focused, pragmatic and solution-oriented
- Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
- Ability to move between big picture and detail
- Ability to engage, conduct diagnoses, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions
- Excellent research and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Negotiating, influencing and holding to account
- Ability to influence clinicians and managers
- Ability to communicate highly complex business analysis to all levels of staff in a comprehensible way that drives action
Desirable
- Primary research, including designing and conducting interviews and surveys
- Working with businesses to identify means of improving resource efficiency
- Helping to develop business cases
- Contributing to economic assessments, including cost-benefit analyses
- Undertaking research related to policy
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Closing Date: 3 September 2026
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