Strategic Programmes Project Manager

Job overview

We are recruiting for a 12-month FTC for a Strategic Programmes Project Manager to support delivery of our organisational priorities across the Great Care, Timely Care and Best Place to work priority programmes.

This role provides vital coordination to ensure that our strategic programmes are supported by strong planning, aligned timelines, robust governance, and consistent reporting. The post holder will work closely with Strategic Programme Leads, Organisational Development Team and wider people team, operational teams, and transformation colleagues to coordinate project structures, support delivery, and evidence progress against strategic objectives.

This position requires a proactive, organised, and adaptive project manager who can create clarity, maintain momentum, and support teams to deliver improvements in quality, productivity, flow, and patient experience. The first priority area for this role will be to lead the creation and delivery of the project management infrastructure for our Timely Care – Zero Delays strategic priority area.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

• Build and maintain strong project management infrastructure for strategic programmes.
• Develop and coordinate project plans, timelines, milestones, and dependencies.
• Maintain reporting, dashboards, risks, and governance documentation.
• Work with stakeholders across clinical, operational, OD, digital, finance, and transformation teams.
• Support governance, assurance, and preparation of reports and papers for senior leaders.
• Facilitate engagement, communication, and planning sessions to embed change

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Task and Responsibilities

Strategic Programme Delivery

• Work closely with the Strategic Programme Leads to Lead the creation of a robust project management infrastructure for strategic programmes particularly zero delays, ensuring a clear framework for planning, delivery, and reporting.
• Support the development of project plans, milestones, dependencies and delivery timelines across strategic priority areas.
• Work in partnership with Strategic Programme Leads to ensure alignment between project plans, operational delivery, and organisational strategy.
• Support additional work across Timely Care and Great Care programmes to maintain consistency and alignment across all strategic areas.
• Support collaboration with relevant stakeholders to ensure the programme developed meets organisational, system, service user and trainer need and is a sustainable offer for longer term delivery at the end of project period.

Project Management & Coordination

• Conduct scoping work and thematic analysis to support programme planning.
• Break down programmes into phases, tasks, and deliverables, maintaining project documentation including Gantt charts and RAID logs.
• Maintain up‑to‑date reporting dashboards, trackers, and governance documents that clearly evidence progress and risks.
• Proactively identify delays, barriers, and risks, escalating to Programme Managers and SROs as appropriate.
• Coordinate workstream activity, ensuring milestones are aligned, realistic, and well communicated.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Work collaboratively with clinicians, operational managers, strategic improvement teams, and corporate colleagues.
• Support effective stakeholder communication including updates, presentations, and briefing papers for senior leaders and Board committees.
• Facilitate engagement sessions to ensure teams understand programme objectives, timelines, expectations and required deliverables.
• Maintain strong working relationships with cross‑functional partners including Quality Improvement, Digital, Finance, and Performance.

Governance & Assurance

• Support the establishment and maintenance of programme governance structures.
• Ensure all service and cost improvement schemes are underpinned by robust governance standards.
• Produce reports, papers, and presentations to communicate complex project information to senior managers and executive teams.

Monitoring, Tracking & Reporting

• Track delivery of milestones and benefits realisation across workstreams.
• Monitor progress against strategic objectives and provide regular high‑quality updates.
• Ensure all project documentation is accurate, version‑controlled, and aligned with Trust governance requirements.

Supporting Organisational Change & Improvement

• Facilitate structured planning sessions, supporting teams to navigate change.
• Help embed new ways of working by supporting adoption of improved systems, processes, and performance management practices.
• Work closely with internal improvement specialists to align project delivery with cultural and behavioural expectations.