Project Manager (SWASH)

Job summary

NHS Band 6 Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum

Hours per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs

Contract type: Permanent

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the SWASH+ Service Management Team, the Project Manager will take ownership of the day-to-day management and delivery of Digital Radiology projects. Acting under the delegated authority of the project board, the post holder will be responsible for driving one major scheme or several smaller initiatives through the entire project lifecycle from initial business case development and detailed planning through to implementation and project closure.

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Details

• Date posted: 02 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: REF2463U
• Job locations: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 3LY, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

The Project Manager will play a central role in ensuring that all assigned projects are delivered efficiently on time, and within budget. This includes coordinating resources, managing risks, engaging stakeholders, and adapting to emerging needs. In addition to structured projects, the role will also involve the planning and execution of ad hoc change initiatives within SWASH+, ensuring agile and effective responses to service demands and digital transformation goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owning the planning of the project, developing the project initiation document and agreeing project milestones, timelines and resources.
• Coordinate with Clinical and Non-clinical staff the facilitation of changes to business processes needed to realise the benefits from new digital technology.
• Actively managing relationships with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders both within the trust and in other partner organisations.
• Managing project resources and their contribution to project delivery.
• Owning the development of key project documentation including project initiation document, risk and issue logs, financial tracker and benefits log.
• Identifying and mitigating issues and, when necessary, escalating them to the project board for support.
• Monitoring plans and overall progress and use of resources, taking corrective action where necessary to ensure that the deliverables of the project are produced on time, within budget and to the expected quality.
• Applying trust project management methodology (PRINCE2).
• Supporting the procurement process where necessary, working with external suppliers to hold them accountable for delivery of their scope of work.
• Identifying dependencies with other projects within and outside the SWASH+ Consortium and working with other members of the SMT and PACS Managers to ensure they are met.
• Communicating project plans, progress and issues through regular highlight reporting.

For full job details and person specifications, please refer to enclosed job description.