Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Project Manager - Strategic Projects Team

The closing date is 15 August 2025

Job summary

INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

Are you an experienced project manager passionate about healthcare transformation? Join our small but impactful Strategic Projects Team at Royal Papworth Hospital and help shape the future of patient care across our Trust and wider healthcare system.

Our current focus is the Trust's Elective Recovery Programme, service and cost improvements and the development of the Trust next Five-year strategy 2026-2031 and supporting strategies.

We also work closely with partner organisations on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and across Cambridge and Peterborough Integrated Care System.

The Project Manager leads several projects providing project management and support to ensure outputs are delivered effectively across the Strategic Projects team and Director of Strategic Projects portfolio You'll be responsible for defining and managing projects with a focus on identifying risks, resolving issues, and coordinating project interdependencies to ensure successful delivery of outcomes. More importantly is collaboration with clinicians, nursing and operational colleagues as well as senior managers, executives and external stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

The role includes line management of an Assistant Project Manager, providing support, mentorship, and development opportunities within the team.

Royal Papworth Hospital is proud to employ a diverse workforce who are encouraged to use their individuality to provide exceptional and personalised patient care. We believe that our strength as an organisation relies on our ability to foster an environment which encourages using our differences as a strength.

In your Supporting Information, please describe how you demonstrate our Trust values of Compassion, Excellence, and Collaboration in your work.

For further information and/or an informal discussion please contact Wendy Walker, Director of Strategic Projects on w.walker1@nhs.net or Katie Morrish, Programme Manager on katie.morrish@nhs.net

Interview Date : 1st September 2025

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

31 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2526-NP1348

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
Formal project management qualification or equivalent experience in project management across a range of complex projects to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.

Desirable

Management qualification

Experience

Essential

Effective use of project management methodologies and techniques, including change, people and stakeholder management
Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills
Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, delegate effectively and finding innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems
Evidence of managing successful projects and / or operational performance and improvement; including the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
Use of analytical and judgement skills including understanding, analysis and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
IT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes and in
particular in Excel.

Desirable

Experience, or knowledge and understanding, of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas.
MS Project

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource in response to changing demands and requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
Formal project management qualification or equivalent experience in project management across a range of complex projects to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.

Desirable

Management qualification

Experience

Essential

Effective use of project management methodologies and techniques, including change, people and stakeholder management
Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills
Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, delegate effectively and finding innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems
Evidence of managing successful projects and / or operational performance and improvement; including the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
Use of analytical and judgement skills including understanding, analysis and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
IT literate, including competency in MS Office programmes and in
particular in Excel.

Desirable

Experience, or knowledge and understanding, of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas.
MS Project

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource in response to changing demands and requirements.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Employer's website

https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)