Project Manager

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Project Manager

Band 7

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

Are you an experienced NHS Digital Project Manager seeking to shape the future of healthcare?

Our portfolio spans AI and Automation, Cloud First strategy, a region-wide LIMS rollout, and support for our Networks of Excellence.

As outlined in the NHS 10-Year Plan and Life Sciences Sector Plan, Genomic Medicine is a key priority for moving healthcare from treatment to prevention. Digital, Data and Informatics are vital to enabling this transformation.

In the North East and Yorkshire (NEY), we lead nationally in research and innovation in this space. These roles offer the chance to join a forward-thinking service driving change.

We are recruiting a Digital Project Manager to strengthen our senior Digital, Data and Informatics delivery team. This is a 18-month fixed-term post, supporting future service delivery and strategic priorities.

The NEY Genomic Medicine Service (GMS) is one of seven regional services providing diagnostic, prognostic and treatment insights, delivering equitable, patient-centred care to around 8.5 million people.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of four partner trusts in the NEY GMS, alongside Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Working with NHS and regional clinical partners, we embed genomics into routine care enabling faster, more accurate diagnoses, personalised treatments, and prevention through early detection.

Main duties of the job

Dimension 1: Drive forward our existing Genomic Laboratory Information Management System (GLIMs) implementation. This will provide a single solution across our entire region which will bring considerable benefits for our Clinical, Scientific and Operational teams to enhance our digital maturity and operations, resulting in improved experience for the population we serve and the staff who provide the service.

Dimension 2 : Drive forward the delivery of our digital roadmap which is a combination of the NHSE commissioned national programme, including Digitisation of the Test Directory, Order Management and the Unified Genomics Record, and Regional Initiatives including Cloud First Strategy, Networks of Excellence and AI and Automation.

As a regional service, this will require travel within NEY but there is an opportunity for hybrid working for a suitable candidate.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
  
  

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Interview Date: 8 May 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
  
  

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Job Purpose

• Direct and effective management of projects as required within time, cost and quality parameters.
• Contribute towards the delivery of the GLH Programme/Project portfolio and co-ordinate project inter-dependencies.
• To make a significant contribution to the aspects of the GLH strategy, which enables the Trust to meet its business goals and to achieve statutory and business reporting requirements.
• To ensure the timely and accurate production of programme status reports for senior management.
• Development and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of work comprising of programmes, projects, technical requests and feasibility studies.
• Client interaction, including developing a pipeline of work from the client, managing programmes/project priorities with the client, financial tracking and reporting, and project tracking and reporting.
• Cross-activity relationship management.
• The position will involve a considerable amount of interaction with colleagues, business groups, IT and external vendors.
• To make a considerable contribution to the ongoing development of the GLH IT Change Framework (structure, processes and controls).
• Promoting the value of the Change Framework within the change community, and driving improvements based on experience gathered from business partners. Maturing those disciplines across the organisation ensuring deliverance of a professional, high quality service.
• Contributing and developing the GLH Programme Management Operating Plan, maintaining alignment to NHS direction and policy.
• Managing effective interfaces in order to maintain an end-to-end view of programme priorities and direction.
• Feeds into and updates a register of portfolio risks and issues, including mitigation plans. Ensuring that these are escalated and acted upon effectively.
• Experience of managing stakeholders and debate, up to Director level.
  
  

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience e.g. IT, Business, Health or have substantial experience in a relevant post
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Have experience of managing a team, ideally management of project or service support teams
• Have experience of delivering change management technology
• Have experience of analysing and forecasting staff and budgets
• Have experience of inter-agency working involving multiple and diverse partners
• Have experience of supporting executive level Project Boards
• Be competent with the Microsoft Office Suite
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Have experience of managing multiple complex projects
• Have a good understanding of Trust policies and procedures
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing projects in other organisations of similar size and complexity within or outside of the NHS
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Hold a current recognised project management qualification, preferably PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent experience in project management techniques
  
  

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Documents to download

• JD & PS (PDF, 158.7KB)
• Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
• Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)
  
  

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Lisa-Jayne Brown-Schofield Job title Operational Co-ordinator Email address lisa-jayne.brown-schofield@nhs.net Telephone number 0191 2138602

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