Project Manager
| Posting date: | 25 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 April 2026 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO6 3LY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C8192-26-0166 |
Summary
Communication and Working Relationships: Responsible for engagement of clinical and non-clinical stakeholders across the organisation and wider health system, managing their potentially conflicting views and priorities. Development of communications plans, reflecting the information needs of all stakeholders. Responsible for producing clear, concise highlight reports on plans, progress, risks and issues for the project board and exception reports where project tolerances are breached. Rapidly building strong relationships with all parties - staff, contractors, suppliers and other project stakeholders - to actively manage their contributions to project deliverables. Able to present clearly and persuasively (both formally and informally) to stakeholders within the trust and wider healthcare system the benefits, plans and progress of projects. Manage difficult situations and sensitive matters when liaising with operational staff to identify efficiencies and other matters that may lead to an operational change. Able to use enhanced communication skills to communicate highly complex and sometimes continuous information which may or may not require negotiation and persuasive skills. Analytical and Judgement: Required to monitoring the delivery of all elements of schemes, analysing large amounts of complex information, from multiple sources and often under pressure of time, to identify risks and issues that might derail the project. Identify and manage interdependencies and prioritise actions to mitigate these, escalating to the project board for support when required. Drawing on expert support where needed, analyse, map and review current state processes and pathways across multidisciplinary teams. Work with relevant leads to identify benefits from project activities and ensure that these are documented and actively managed. Required to use own judgment and to interpret and analyse highly complex facts and undertake research to compare these to different options available. Planning and organising: Responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day reporting of project(s) ensuring the project remains within agreed tolerances for time, budget and scope and, where this is at risk, developing alternative plans and submitting exceptions reports to the project board for consideration. Create, launch and execute robust project plans, articulating milestones, timescales, stakeholders etc., using appropriate project management methodologies that consider differing views of project stakeholders. Ensuring all risk and issues are documented and those that need them have mitigation plans in place. Please refer to the full job description before applying for this role.