Senior Project Manager - Transformation & Improvement | Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Crewe

About the Role

Senior Project Manager (Transformation and Improvement) to support delivery of strategic programmes of work at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, aligned to agreed priorities and improvement aims. The primary objective is to support the development and spread of new ways of working, new processes and new mechanisms to support improvements such as elective or non‑elective flow, the delivery of A&E and Trust access standards and restoration of elective activity reducing backlogs. The role will primarily focus on establishing the business support and work streams for the programmes and work with partners to implement the key priorities of the programme. The post holder will engage and work collaboratively with a number of stakeholders across public, voluntary and community sector organisations, driving forward priorities and supporting operational change to achieve person‑centred, safe and effective care. The role reports to the Head of Transformation.

Responsibilities

• End‑to‑end delivery of allocated projects to time, on budget and to appropriate levels of quality in accordance with board priorities.
• Support ongoing improvement capability and cultural change to ensure a sustainable improvement workforce across the organisation.
• Lead programme and project planning and initiation, ensuring the Trust’s Improvement Matters approach and correct governance are followed.
• Facilitate definition of programme and project scope, goals and deliverables and develop business case details, including cost/benefit analysis for each option.
• Define project products and tasks to develop full‑scale project plans and resource requirements.
• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools and techniques, ensuring quality assurance against pre‑defined product definitions and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the project’s budget on behalf of the Project Board, controlling expenditures within tolerance and monitoring costs against deliverables.
• Manage the project’s Risk Log, ensuring items are allocated to owners, reviewed regularly, and corrective action initiated.
• Develop efficient methods for improving project development and delivery, reviewing and initiating extra activities where gaps are identified.
• Constantly monitor and assess the project, producing highlight reports defining progress, problems and solutions to the Project Board and stakeholders.
• Create and maintain communication strategies to ensure effective and timely communication with all stakeholders, including regular Project Board and Team meetings.
• Use a variety of techniques and strategies to support people through change, motivating and supporting stakeholders at all levels.
• Analyse, interpret and present complex data, insights, intelligence and information in an accessible format, utilising dashboards and software for statistics and process control charts.
• Manage third‑party and external stakeholder contributions to programmes and projects where appropriate.
• Provide facilitation and improvement coaching to support and upskill staff, leaving a legacy of continuous improvement.
• Identify, measure and own the benefits of programme and project activities to support business benefit realisation.
• Support the development of a continuous improvement culture, capturing lessons learned and incorporating them into future development.
• Maintain a strategic focus balanced with thorough business knowledge and understanding of high‑level business processes of Board functions and service areas.
• Support the Trust’s commitment to developing a continuous improvement culture using Improvement Matters, the Trust’s single continuous improvement approach.

This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026.