Project Manager, Healthcare Management, IT Project Manager

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Project Manager
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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we're in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus.

Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to play a leading role in delivering this major workforce transformation within the Trust. As Project Manager, you will oversee the end-to-end delivery of the programme locally, coordinating stakeholders across HR, Digital, Finance, and operational teams, while ensuring the organisation is fully prepared for a high-profile system implementation.
The Future NHS Workforce Solution Transformation Programme is a nationally led initiative by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). It will replace the current Electronic Staff Record (ESR) with a modern, cloud-based platform, providing enhanced end-to-end workforce functionality—from hire to retire
-across NHS organisations in England and Wales.

• Interview Date Wednesday 01 July 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

Main duties of the job

• Lead the day-to-day management of the New Workforce Solution project, ensuring delivery to agreed milestones, timescales, and quality standards.
• Establish and maintain structured project management processes, including planning, progress tracking, dependency management, and RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) logs.
• Assess organisational readiness for implementation, identify gaps, and coordinate actions to ensure successful deployment.
• Coordinate and engage a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders, programme teams, suppliers, and partner organisations.
• Support governance arrangements by organising meetings, preparing papers, recording actions, and reporting progress to project boards and senior stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain reporting frameworks to provide clear, accurate updates and support informed decision-making.
• Facilitate collaboration across HR, Digital, Finance, and operational teams to ensure alignment and effective delivery.
• Provide expert advice and support to senior managers on project delivery, risks, and change management.
• Manage project communications, ensuring key information is shared effectively across stakeholders at all levels.
• Contribute to service improvement by supporting change management, adoption activities, and benefits realisation.

Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting…