Senior Project Manager in London

An exciting 6-month secondment opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Project Manager to join our Strategy Directorate to lead and manage delivery of vital projects and programmes at UCLH. The post will cover a sixth month secondment.

The Strategy Directorate oversees all key strategic programmes including, but not exclusive of, new hospital building developments, clinical service developments and redesign and joint collaborations with other local health and care partners.

Main duties of the job:

• Working closely with clinical and corporate colleagues, you will play an important role in designing and leading some of our most critical programmes and projects.
• As an experienced manager, you will demonstrate the ability to deliver complex projects in a co-productive and collaborative manner with our wide range of internal stakeholders and partner organisations.
• Day to day duties will include facilitation of workstream meetings, project plan development, identification and mitigation of project risks and delivery of key elements of each specific programme to agreed timeframes.
• The ability to build relationships and credibility with a wide range of stakeholders will be key to success in this role.
• The portfolio for the successful candidate will be discussed following successful recruitment as portfolios are dynamic and change to fit the needs of the organisation.

This is an ideal opportunity for a self-motivated individual wanting to gain experience of designing, delivering and leading on elements of health care strategy in a dynamic and ambitious organisation.

Working for our organisation:

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.