Senior Project Manager - New QEH

Job overview

The Senior Project Manager – New QEH will assist the Design and Construction Lead in maintaining and developing the New QEH and its workstreams to deliver against the program aims. The post holder will engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across the Trust's clinical networks and corporate services and will have oversight of the delivery of key projects within the Trust’s diverse change programmes centred around the delivery workstreams of the New QEH Project.

Projects will need to be delivered within budget and to agreed timescales. Individual projects may span one or more clinical networks.

• Provide clear and comprehensive project highlight reports detailing status, progress, key risks, key issues, and delivery trajectory to all relevant stakeholders.
• Champion project management best practices and methodologies across the Trust, ensuring alignment with national standards and policies.
• Lead and facilitate meetings, including project team meetings, stakeholder groups, and programme boards, ensuring effective communication and collaboration among all parties involved.
• Serve as a key liaison between the Trust and external partners, including contractors and third-party organisations, to ensure seamless project execution.
• Employ advanced negotiation, motivational, and conflict resolution skills to address and resolve issues that arise during project implementation.
• Keep all managers up to date with project progress.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We love working here and think you will too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details regarding this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to relevant degree level or equivalent
• Better Business Case Foundation or Higher
• Prince2 (Practitioner level) or other equivalent project management qualification

Experience

• Experience working in a multi-agency partnership, sharing information and building valued relationships
• Experience producing high-quality briefings and written project documents for senior managers
• Substantial experience in policy and strategy development and their impact across the organisation
• Experience as a budget holder, including budget planning, management, and financial reporting

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

• In-depth knowledge and experience in a project management role within a customer-focused organisation
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working partnerships with professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and in other agencies
• Knowledge and experience of corporate governance in an NHS setting, either directly or by working in partnership with the NHS
• Knowledge and experience of business intelligence related data collection
• Strong delegation skills

Aptitude

• Self-motivated and innovative thinker.

We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).

By applying for this post you are agreeing to the transfer of information in the application form to Trac jobs & if you are offered a job your personal information will be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system. Please check your email account regularly for communication regarding this vacancy.

We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Free counselling service
• NHS Pension scheme
• Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
• Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
• Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.

We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.

Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.

Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.