Job vacancy: Senior Project Manager, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Job summary

Main area: Digital Services
Grade: Band 7
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 287-CEF-47-25

Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Kilby House, Liverpool Innovation Park.
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 11/06/2025

Senior Project Manager

Band 7

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide project management expertise and advice within the directorate/organisation

Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.

Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.

Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.

To analyse and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, which requires the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options and decide how resources are to be used. Including within this is the management of key interdependencies with other projects.

Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the programme governance.

To identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s),
including the development and implementation of contingency plans.

Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronised with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plans.

Ensure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the project.

To make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programmes/projects and to demonstrate systems to users when necessary.

Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate.

The postholder will be required to contribute to the development and
implementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the Directorate.

The postholder will be required to monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and action taken to resolve situations and to achieve progress.

The postholder will liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues.

The post holder will work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional policies.

Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate.

Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work.

Dedicate the required concentration required to collate, analyse, check and report on complex information, while coping with ongoing project issues and interruptions.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Masters Degree or equivalent
Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects

Desirable criteria

ITIL Foundation qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
Experience of managing a project team
Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
Teaching and presentation skills
Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in a NHS environment
A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Specialist knowledge and indepth Substantial experience of working in a project environment

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
Ability to present project management techniques and tools
Ability to discuss project management technical details with non technical users.
Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.