Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the delivery of a diverse portfolio of imaging infrastructure projects and programmes that improve diagnostic and interventional services across the Trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage assigned projects and workstreams, developing project plans, and coordinating activities from initiation through to delivery.
• Work collaboratively with clinical, operational, estates, procurement, finance, and supplier teams to ensure projects are delivered safely, effectively, and with minimal disruption to services.
• Monitor project progress, risks, issues, actions, and dependencies, providing regular updates, reports, and governance documentation to support decision-making.
• Support equipment replacement programmes, room refurbishments, service relocations, and new facility developments across Ultrasound, X-ray, CT, MRI, and Cardiac Catheter Laboratory services.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, maintain project documentation, and help coordinate operational readiness, mobilisation, and go-live activities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, helping develop project management tools, templates, and best practice approaches across the programme.

What Experience and Skills Are Needed?

The Ideal Candidate Will Be Able To Demonstrate

• Experience of successfully delivering estates or infrastructure projects within a complex healthcare, public sector, or large organisational environment.
• Strong project management, organisational, and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of managing project risks, issues, actions, and governance requirements, and producing high-quality reports and documentation.
• Degree-level qualification, equivalent experience, or a recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Foundation or APM.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Additional Information

• Occasional travel between hospital sites and supplier locations may be required.
• The postholder will be expected to work flexibly to support key project milestones, equipment installations, and service transitions, which may occasionally occur outside normal working hours.
• The role involves regular attendance within clinical, diagnostic, and construction environments and adherence to relevant safety procedures.
• The successful applicant will be subject to the appropriate pre-employment checks in accordance with NHS recruitment standards.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a team delivering some of the Trust's largest and most complex healthcare infrastructure programmes.
• Gain exposure to major imaging and diagnostic transformation projects that directly improve patient care.
• Work alongside senior clinical, operational, and programme leaders in a dynamic and supportive environment.
• Play a key role in shaping the future of imaging services across one of the UK's leading NHS organisations.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience

Essential Criteria

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree (Tech, Business, Change) or equivalent specialist knowledge and experience.
• Masters or equivalent specialist knowledge and experience.
• Recognised Project Management qualification to practitioner level or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge and practical experience of the management and successful delivery of the full project lifecycle (including pre-project phases) of medium projects.
• Experience of analysing complex datasets and producing reports, dashboards, and performance information to internal and external groups.
• Proven knowledge and practical experience in the development, management, and maintenance of databases, ensuring data integrity and usability.
• Project management skills including use of multiple methodologies, e.g., waterfall and agile.
• Knowledge of the creation, review, update, and reporting of standard project artefacts.
• Knowledge of how to analyse complex technical information relating to programmes and present to a variety of audiences.
• Knowledge of how to identify, source, assimilate, and apply relevant (clinical, system, setting) specific and technical knowledge.
• Knowledge of how to identify complex project risks and issues and develop detailed mitigation strategies.
• Understanding of relevant legislation and guidance.

Desirable Criteria

• Recognised relevant change management qualifications, e.g., relating to risk, benefits, change, business analysis, or continuous improvement.
• Other project and change management training courses.
• Staff management training courses.
• Management and successful delivery of the full project lifecycle of medium, small, and very small change projects (including pre-project phases) in an Acute NHS Trust, a provider NHS (non-acute), or the NHS.
• Evidence of recent further professional development.

Trust Values

Essential Criteria

• Patient First
• Working Together
• Always Improving