Project Manager

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced and influential Project Manager to join the Enterprise Change team at NHS Professionals (NHSP). This is not a traditional project administration role - this is a leadership position at the heart of NHSP's transformation agenda.

You will take ownership of complex, strategic, and business critical projects that shape the future of our services, technology, and operations. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will provide strategic insight, challenge assumptions, and ensure initiatives deliver tangible value across the organisation.

You will work across multidisciplinary teams, bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to high profile change programmes. From shaping scope and governance to leading delivery teams and preparing the organisation for implementation, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring NHSP's transformation agenda is realised.

This role combines strategic oversight, hands on delivery leadership, stakeholder engagement, benefits realisation, and continuous improvement-making it ideal for someone who thrives in a complex, fast paced environment.

What You'll Lead & Deliver

• Delivery of strategic, cross functional projects aligned to NHSP's transformation roadmap.
• Planning and managing resources, budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies, and governance.
• Facilitating workshops and shaping strategic discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Leading multi disciplinary teams (internal, suppliers, and clinical/operational stakeholders).
• Setting delivery standards using appropriate methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
• Overseeing business readiness, rollouts, and benefits realisation.
• Ensuring documentation, reporting, and governance remain transparent and audit ready.
• Identifying opportunities for digital improvement, automation, or service redesign.

Why Join NHSP?

You'll be part of a growing organisation with a critical mission: to support the NHS by providing a resilient, flexible workforce that enables high quality patient care. The work is purposeful, the projects are strategic, and the opportunities to shape the future are significant.

If you want to lead meaningful change and deliver projects that have real impact across the NHS, we'd love to hear from you.

About The Candidate

To be successful in the role we are looking for;

We're looking for more than a project manager. We're looking for a leader-someone who can influence, inspire confidence, and drive meaningful change.

A Strategic Operator

Someone who sees the bigger picture, adds insight, and constructively challenges thinking to make sure we deliver solutions that last.

A Strong Communicator & Relationship Builder

Able to work confidently with stakeholders at all levels, including executives, operational teams, and third party partners.
You can handle difficult conversations, facilitate alignment, and create clarity in complex situations.

A Delivery Leader

You understand how to get projects delivered-motivating teams, removing blockers, and keeping momentum high.
You can balance governance with pragmatism, and you know when to shift approaches to achieve outcomes.

Analytical & Evidence led

Comfortable using data, insight, and structured analysis to support decision making, reporting, and benefits realisation.

Resilient, Organised & Self Driven

You manage pressure well, can juggle competing priorities, and remain calm, credible, and solution focused.

What You'll Bring Essential

• Proven experience delivering complex technology and/or operational projects.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
• Experience in governance, risk management, and benefits realisation.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem solving, and workshop facilitation skills.
• Ability to manage budgets, resources, and suppliers.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira, Confluence, PowerBI, and O365.

Desirable

• PRINCE2, AgilePM, PMP, or similar certifications.
• Experience within the NHS, healthcare, or large scale transformation.
• Exposure to service design, digital transformation, or product management.

About Us

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

• Generous annual leave allowance with the ability to buy and sell - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays.
• A commitment to talent management & development
• Values Star of the Month! - Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers.
• Pension - We'll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme.
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

NHSP is committed to being an inclusive employer of choice, working with a variety of partner organisations which provide valuable insights and best practice. We are accredited as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work. As part of our ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we have been awarded the Race Equality Code Quality Mark and are a signatory of Disability Confident, Menopause Pledge and Mental Health at Work Commitment.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

As part of our commitment to EDI, as well as having a number of related staff support networks and calendar of activities, NHS professionals is also working to the following aims:

• To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society.
• To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does.
• To create a psychologically safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best.
• To actively support and Include disabled people as part of our commitment to the Disability Confident scheme, including offering an interview to applicants to who meet the minimum criteria and choose to apply under the scheme.

We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.