Project Manager - NHS Wales | Cardiff (Hybrid) (Cardiff)

Project Manager – NHS Wales | Cardiff (Hybrid)

Location: Cardiff – 1 day per week onsite

Contract: 3 months (rolling)

Rate : £250 per day (Inside IR35)

Are you an experienced Project Manager ready to make a national impact?

Join NHS Wales at the heart of digital transformation. Building on recent investments in healthcare technology, this opportunity sits within a pioneering department responsible for delivering large-scale, high-impact programmes that shape the future of patient care across Wales.

About the Role

You’ll take over an in-flight project aimed at enabling Community Pharmacists’ access to the Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP) — a critical move in supporting the safe prescribing of Sodium Valproate for women of childbearing age.

This is a technical proof of concept project, requiring coordination across digital systems, clinical governance, and multi-agency stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver national-scale digital projects with complex technical and clinical elements
• Engage directly with clinicians, pharmacists, and programme teams to ensure successful rollout
• Oversee project governance, RAID management, timelines, and reporting
• Support programme boards, manage communications and brief key leaders
• Ensure operational readiness, service transition and post-project evaluation
• Guide and supervise the input of project support and administrators

✅ What You’ll Need

Essential:

• Strong project management experience in healthcare, digital, or government settings
• Expertise in project planning, delivery and assurance (PRINCE2 Agile preferred)
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Proven track record of managing risk, cost, quality and performance metrics
• Ability to interpret data, write reports, and influence change

Desirable:

• Familiarity with NHS Wales or wider health systems
• Understanding of the regulatory and strategic healthcare landscape in Wales

Qualifications

• Degree level education or equivalent experience
• PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner (or similar)
• Practical project delivery experience across digital/clinical environments

Be part of something bigger — help modernise how care is delivered in Wales.

Apply now to join a vital mission improving health services at scale.

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