Healthcare Planning Senior Project Manager

Job overview

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) is embarking on an exciting phase of transformation through our Our Future Hospitals programme. We’re looking for a Healthcare Planning Senior Project Manager to lead complex, multidisciplinary capital projects that improve patient pathways, modernise our estate and digital capabilities, and deliver tangible benefits for patients, families and staff.

You’ll be part of a supportive, expert team that brings together clinical leaders, operational managers, finance, HR/OD, digital and estates colleagues. If you love solving complex problems with great people—and turning strategy into real‑world change—this is the role for you.

Main duties of the job

• Support the delivery of assigned OFH projects from initiation through to benefits realisation and handover to Business‑as‑Usual in the Healthplanning context.
• Stand up the right structure—define scope, set up governance, create project/work‑stream plans, map interdependencies, and maintain risk, issue and quality logs.
• Plan and land operational “go‑lives”—rollout planning, readiness checks, commissioning/transition support and post‑implementation review.
• Assure the basics—produce PIDs, highlight/exception reports and business case inputs (aligned to Green Book), escalating issues through programme governance.
• Coordinate - stakeholders and work‑stream leads, set clear deliverables, coach others in good project practice, and track financial and non‑financial benefits.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Identify project resources required to deliver the project, and agree how and from where this will be resourced. This includes the identification of work-stream leads for the project: including the clinical leads.

• Ensure the project scope is clearly defined and agreed, ensure the project is managed within the agreed scope and escalate unavoidable scope creep.

• Source and identify best fit solutions; lead and analyse process mapping, benefits analysis and workload and performance audits within the operational area of implementation to establish clear and realistic expectations in terms of deliverables and the benefits these will bring.

• Manage work-stream links and dependencies; ensuring that no work is either overlooked, or duplicated; ensuring work stream-related risks (particularly those associated with interdependencies between projects) are managed to a successful outcome and that the impact of any change is related back to its impact upon the operational area of implementation and the stage the business case is at.

• Leading the development of workforce training and development strategies to ensure that all staff, whether project support staff, the multidisciplinary project team, or staff within the operational area of implementation have the requisite skills, training and experience to deliver the project and the wider programme.

• Produce high quality outputs (as agreed with Project Committees) as required through the work streams, ensuring accuracy and robustness of information; using appropriate modalities to produce documents and presentations for the workstreams (and project as requested) and for general project management (e.g. Including use of excel, PowerPoint etc.)

• Manage the successful implementation of the project and undertake post-project evaluation.

• Develop plans with relevant clinical services to ensure the use and benefits of the OFH programme are sustained beyond the initial rollout and become business as usual.