Project Manager

Job details

• Job reference: 253453
• Salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
• Job closing date: 24/07/2026
• Job Type: Administrative Services
• Location: 56 Canaan Lane
• Employment type: Fixed-term
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 10/07/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
• Department: Clinical Systems Project Team, Digital Programmes & Development

Fixed term 1 year

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own.

• Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
• Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
• Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.

Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool.

To manage one or more IM&T project(s). The post-holder has overall responsibility and accountability for the financial, operational, people management and customer relationship aspects of project(s). These projects themselves are often conceptualised and initiated by or in consultation with the post-holder, and address highly complex and often sensitive information processing problems.

As a senior member of the departmental management team, the post-holder manages the conceptualisation, development, implementation and maintenance of projects, processes and applications that are aligned to and support wider organisational strategy. The post is highly collaborative in nature and involves communication and negotiation with technical and non-technical experts and managers internally and externally. As such, the post-holder must have highly specialised knowledge in either IT or business related areas, with knowledge that will have been accumulated over several years and/ supported by formal qualifications, training and experience.

The post-holder will provide leadership, advice, support and guidance to multi-disciplinary teams and all other stakeholders.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Katie Baird on 07719 572 863 or at katie.baird@nhs.scot

Fixed term 1 year

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own.

• Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
• Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
• Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.

Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool.

To manage one or more IM&T project(s). The post-holder has overall responsibility and accountability for the financial, operational, people management and customer relationship aspects of project(s). These projects themselves are often conceptualised and initiated by or in consultation with the post-holder, and address highly complex and often sensitive information processing problems.

As a senior member of the departmental management team, the post-holder manages the conceptualisation, development, implementation and maintenance of projects, processes and applications that are aligned to and support wider organisational strategy. The post is highly collaborative in nature and involves communication and negotiation with technical and non-technical experts and managers internally and externally. As such, the post-holder must have highly specialised knowledge in either IT or business related areas, with knowledge that will have been accumulated over several years and/ supported by formal qualifications, training and experience.

The post-holder will provide leadership, advice, support and guidance to multi-disciplinary teams and all other stakeholders.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Katie Baird on 07719 572 863 or at katie.baird@nhs.scot