Project Manager (PMO) - Cambridge Children's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 September 2026
3 days left
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to join the Cambridge Children's Hospital Project on a 12 month fixed term contract to lead i...
The main duties of the role are to provide project management skills and expertise to support the Cambridge Children's Hospital Project. The roles involve working with a diverse range of colleagues across partner organisations (CUH, CPFT and University of Cambridge), commissioners and regulators.
The Project Manager (PMO) role will include
Actively liaising with project workstreams and contributing to overall planning, data analysis, risk management and project / programme coordination.
Monitoring progress against plans with the workstreams, liaising with the Programme Director / Deputy the Programme Director to ensure the plan remains on track.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note
- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
This post will work on behalf of all Cambridge Children's Hospital partners and be hosted by CUH.
The advert will close at midnight on 3 September 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 17 September 2026.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 11000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent experience
- Degree level education or substantial experience in programme management and delivery or equivalent experience
- Recognised project management qualification at foundation level, e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Numerate degree or health / social care policy / commerce / business strategy
- Qualification or equivalent experience demonstrating proficiency in MS Office Applications and / or working knowledge of project management software or equivalent applications
Experience
Essential
- Experience in delivering project management practices, tools and techniques to successfully plan, manage, deliver and close medium sized projects in accordance with an organisation's project management framework
- Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS or a health and social care services environment including on national or large-scale change management initiatives
- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services and of working via matrix management and across organisational boundaries
- Providing training to peers and colleagues
- Experience in building and maintaining working relationships across project teams and experience of prioritising and managing conflicting workload
- Budgetary management experience for a direct or delegated budget
- Experience in analysing complex data to present summaries and develop options and cost / benefit / risk appraisals
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of supporting a large-scale project - multi-year, £1m+ budget nationally
- Experience of delivering elements of change management or workforce redesign
- Consultancy based skills or experience working in a business consultancy organisation
- Experience with new models of care, national policy development and guidance
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools and techniques, and effective risk and issue management
- Management of procedures for processing project documents, filing and archiving to organisational standards
- Knowledge of facilitation techniques and problem-solving techniques
- Advanced use of IT systems, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.) to analyse and present information
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS finance (revenue and cost models) and business case processes
- Acute provider clinical operations
- Business or process change management
Skills
Essential
- Motivational skills to encourage collaborative working
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a results-focus
- Highly customer focused, pragmatic and solution-oriented
- Flexible, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity
- Committed to high standards and continuous improvement
- Ability to move between big picture and detail
- Ability to engage, conduct diagnoses, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions
- Excellent research and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Negotiating, influencing and holding to account
- Ability to influence clinicians and managers
- Ability to communicate highly complex business analysis to all levels of staff in a comprehensible way that drives action
Desirable
- Primary research, including designing and conducting interviews and surveys
- Working with businesses to identify means of improving resource efficiency
- Helping to develop business cases
- Contributing to economic assessments, including cost-benefit analyses
- Undertaking research related to policy
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
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Provenance
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First seen
10 August 2026
Last checked
12 August 2026
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