Healthcare Planning Senior Project Manager

Overview

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) is embarking on an exciting phase of transformation through our Our Future Hospitals programme. We're looking for a Healthcare Planning Senior Project Manager to lead complex, multidisciplinary capital projects that improve patient pathways, modernise our estate and digital capabilities, and deliver tangible benefits for patients, families and staff. You'll be part of a supportive, expert team that brings together clinical leaders, operational managers, finance, HR/OD, digital and estates colleagues.

If you love solving complex problems with great people—and turning strategy into real-world change—this is the role for you.

• Support the delivery of assigned OFH projects from initiation through to benefits realisation and handover to Business-as-Usual in the Health planning context.
• Stand up the right structure—define scope, set up governance, create project/work-stream plans, map interdependencies, and maintain risk, issue and quality logs.
• Plan and land operational "go-lives"—rollout planning, readiness checks, commissioning/transition support and post-implementation review.
• Assure the basics—produce PIDs, highlight/exception reports and business case inputs (aligned to Green Book), escalating issues through programme governance.
• Coordinate stakeholders and work-stream leads, set clear deliverables, coach others in good project practice, and track financial and non-financial benefits.

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years ).

• Our four primary goals: high-quality care for all, being a great place to work, partnerships for impact, and research and education excellence.
• We will embed health equality in all we do—taking active steps to reduce avoidable differences in healthcare, working in partnership with communities.
• Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all: we are compassionate, we are proud, we are inclusive, and we are one team.

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve. About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: