Snr Technical Administrator (Specialist) Projects

Job summary

Are you a motivated and forward-thinking Project Manager with a passion for technology, innovation, and delivering meaningful change? Then join the Estates & Facilities Technical Development Team and play a key role in shaping the future of one of the UK's largest healthcare estates. This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead and deliver a diverse portfolio of technical and digital projects that support Estates & Facilities services across the Trust. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you will manage projects involving business-critical systems, smart building technologies, and embedded/IoT solutions, helping to modernise services and improve the experience of patients, visitors, and staff. As part of the Trust's ambitious Digital Estate vision, you will be instrumental in turning strategy into realitydelivering innovative projects that enhance operational performance, drive efficiencies, and support the creation of a fully connected, data-driven estate. Based primarily at St James's University Hospital, you will work across all Trust sites, providing exposure to a broad range of high-profile projects and emerging technologies. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in healthcare, working in a challenging and rewarding environment where your work will have a lasting impact.

Main duties of the job

This role provides the following services to the Trust: Project Management of new/updated/upgraded non-clinical systems and IoT relating to the management of all LTHT hospital buildings at all sites Key input to major long-term digital transformation initiatives (of which the individual projects will form a part) delivering LTHTs Digital Estate Strategy Support to existing Trust processes surrounding Information Governance, cyber-security assessments and the management of in-scope systems. Support to the expansion of digital mobilisation initiatives (i.e. expanding the use of mobile technologies) across the extensive and varied Estates & Facilities workforce This role has a particular focus on changing and improving systems via structured projects. The team work to the Scrum framework for managing projects and day to day activities (though there is no software development requirement for the role, it is a highly technical function). Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Details

• Date posted: 22 July 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: 001396
• Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Tim Hawkes Estates & Facilities Head of Technical Development tim.hawkes@nhs.net 0113 2060700 Shortlisting Date: 06/08/2026 Interview Date: 27/08/2026

Job Summary

Are you a motivated and forward-thinking Project Manager with a passion for technology, innovation, and delivering meaningful change? Then join the Estates & Facilities Technical Development Team and play a key role in shaping the future of one of the UK's largest healthcare estates. This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead and deliver a diverse portfolio of technical and digital projects that support Estates & Facilities services across the Trust. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you will manage projects involving business-critical systems, smart building technologies, and embedded/IoT solutions, helping to modernise services and improve the experience of patients, visitors, and staff.

As part of the Trust's ambitious Digital Estate vision, you will be instrumental in turning strategy into reality—delivering innovative projects that enhance operational performance, drive efficiencies, and support the creation of a fully connected, data-driven estate. Based primarily at St James's University Hospital, you will work across all Trust sites, providing exposure to a broad range of high-profile projects and emerging technologies. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in healthcare, working in a challenging and rewarding environment where your work will have a lasting impact.

If you thrive on delivering complex projects, enjoy working with cutting-edge technology, and want to contribute to the future of healthcare infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

Why you should join our Team

The Technical Development team manage Digital Estate systems and technology across Estates and Facilities, leading on technological development, improvement and advancement for our non-clinical operational services. Working closely with operational and technical teams, in this role you will provide technical solutions for the Estates and Facilities team, and play a part in ensuring crucial services are provided across the Trust.

Applicants should be motivated, conscientious and able to both work alone and be a reliable team player. You will need to be flexible and friendly, act as a role model to all staff and be prepared to join a hard-working, busy, and sociable department. To be successful in this role you will need demonstrable experience of the specification, configuration and implementation of a variety of smart building related line of business systems, including embedded systems such as CCTV, access control, large scale activity systems with mobile field service operatives, asset management/maintenance systems, all provided across a busy, corporate environment.

On the job training will be provided to help gain proper understanding of the systems involved. The normal hours of work will be 37.5 hours weekly, agreeable between 0800 - 1800 Monday to Friday.

What you will bring to the role

This role provides the following services to the Trust:

• Project Management of new/updated/upgraded non-clinical systems and IoT relating to the management of all LTHT hospital buildings at all sites
• Key input to major long-term digital transformation initiatives (of which the individual projects will form a part) delivering LTHT’s Digital Estate Strategy
• Support to existing Trust processes surrounding Information Governance, cyber-security assessments and the management of in-scope systems.
• Support to the expansion of ‘digital mobilisation’ initiatives (i.e. expanding the use of mobile technologies) across the extensive and varied Estates & Facilities workforce
• This role has a particular focus on changing and improving systems via structured projects. The team work to the Scrum framework for managing projects and day to day activities (though there is no software development requirement for the role, it is a highly technical function).

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.