Project Manager

Are you a Project Manager looking to play a key role in making NHS Professionals smarter, simpler and faster? Our transformation project, needs your skills now!

Role summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Transformation team in NHS Professionals (NHSP) as a Project Manager on a fixed term contract for 12 months. As a Project Manager you will define, plan and manage the execution of projects within the Transformation Portfolio and across multiple NHSP business initiatives and programmes. This is a fast paced, complex transformation programme that has the potential to take our organisation to the next level and help us deliver the patient care our NHS needs now and in the future.

Skills/Responsibilities:

• Deliver projects to the agreed time, cost and quality
• You will make sure that the relevant governance is in place and the various aspects of project management are covered
• Ensure the project delivery team’s work is properly coordinated and interfaced with NHSP business policies, processes and procedures and, where required, is aligned with industry standards and best practice
• Manage and deliver projects using the appropriate project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently
  
  
  

This is role is a Fixed Term Contract for 12 months. You will be working from home but there will be a requirement to travel into our London, Victoria offices for workshops and/or team meetings on an ad hoc basis.

We would love to meet people with:

• Demonstrable project management experience in the public or private sector
• Agile project management and/or Prince 2 practitioner level or equivalent
• Experience of working in a structured project focused environment
• Previous experience of formal project management and techniques including change control
• A level of comfort working in a complex, changeable, fast paced environment
  
  
  

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

• Generous annual leave allowance - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
• A commitment to talent management & development
• Star of the Month! - Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
• Pension - We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Engagement & discounts platform
  
  
  

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

We are particularly proud of being the first NHS organisation to gain the accreditation of Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute. This is a huge testament to our ongoing commitment to making NHSP a great place to work for all our corporate employees.