Healthcare Planning Senior Project Manager in Leicester

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) is embarking on an exciting phase of transformation through our Our Future Hospitals programme. We are looking for a Healthcare Planning Senior Project Manager to lead complex, multidisciplinary capital projects that improve patient pathways, modernise our estate and digital capabilities, and deliver tangible benefits for patients, families and staff.

You will be part of a supportive, expert team that brings together clinical leaders, operational managers, finance, HR/OD, digital and estates colleagues. If you love solving complex problems with great people—and turning strategy into real-world change—this is the role for you.

Main duties of the job:

• Support the delivery of assigned OFH projects from initiation through to benefits realisation and handover to Business-as-Usual in the Health planning context.
• Stand up the right structure —define scope, set up governance, create project/work-stream plans, map interdependencies, and maintain risk, issue and quality logs.
• Plan and land operational 'go-lives' —rollout planning, readiness checks, commissioning/transition support and post-implementation review.
• Assure the basics —produce PIDs, highlight/exception reports and business case inputs (aligned to Green Book), escalating issues through programme governance.
• Coordinate stakeholders and work-stream leads, set clear deliverables, coach others in good project practice, and track financial and non-financial benefits.

About us:

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years. We have four primary goals: high-quality care for all, being a great place to work, partnerships for impact, and research and education excellence. We will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all: we are compassionate, we are proud, we are inclusive, and we are one team. This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

Job responsibilities:

• Identify project resources required to deliver the project, and agree how and from where this will be resourced.
• Ensure the project scope is clearly defined and agreed, ensure the project is managed within the agreed scope and escalate unavoidable scope creep.
• Source and identify best fit solutions; lead and analyse process mapping, benefits analysis and workload and performance audits within the operational area of implementation to establish clear and realistic expectations in terms of deliverables and the benefits these will bring.
• Manage work-stream links and dependencies; ensuring that no work is either overlooked, or duplicated; ensuring work stream-related risks are managed to a successful outcome.
• Lead the development of workforce training and development strategies to ensure that all staff have the requisite skills, training and experience to deliver the project and the wider programme.
• Produce high quality outputs as required through the work streams, ensuring accuracy and robustness of information.
• Manage the successful implementation of the project and undertake post-project evaluation.
• Develop plans with relevant clinical services to ensure the use and benefits of the OFH programme are sustained beyond the initial rollout and become business as usual.

Person Specification:

• Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours.
• Training & Qualifications: Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience. Evidence of continuing professional development. Commitment to ongoing learning/training. Project Management Qualification.
• Experience: Good understanding of the wider NHS and social care policy, including integrated care. Significant experience of working in partnership and collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders across a health and social care economy.
• Demonstrable experience within strategic development within a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate experience of being patient centric in approach to service development and planning.
• Change 'Champion' - able to demonstrate evidence of supporting delivery of a change programme to achieve targets set.
• Communication and relationship skills: Communicate highly complex or sensitive information clearly and concisely to staff at all levels of the organisation.
• Analytical and Judgement skills: Support & manage complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• Planning and organisation skills: As a completer finisher, the post holder will be required to work to tight deadlines and deliver multiple projects to agreed quality standards and timescales.
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
• Other requirements specific to the role: A 'can do' attitude. Self-motivated and able to motivate others. Ability to be flexible and respond to the needs of the organisation.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.