(Urgent Search) Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

The closing date is 27 October 2025

The Capital, Estates and Facilities Directorate are seeking to recruit two qualified Senior Project Managers with experience of working in a healthcare environment.

You will be expected to work as part of a team on a wide range of challenging capital projects.

You will work within the Capital Planning and Development Team, working alongside a dedicated team of project and engineering managers, clerk of works and support staff.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Project Manager is to support the Capital Programme Manager, in close cooperation with other Estates Officers in the delivery of capital projects within the Estates and Facilities Directorate.

You will form part of a multi-disciplined team whose role is to provide the best possible service to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will have group and individual responsibilities for defined aspects of the service, but will ensure their contribution is beneficial to other departments within the Trust, as well as the Capital Planning and Development team, so as to fulfil the Trust's overall objectives.

About us

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 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.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

- applied for a Graduate visa

- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This advert will close at midnight on 27 October 2025.

Interviews are due to be held on 07 November 2025.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Post graduate certificate or evidence of CPD in highly specialised project management i.e. PRINCE2

- Record of continuous development

Experience

- Demonstrable experience of working within the NHS or health sector in a project management related capacity

- Experience of NHS capital and construction project management in a large complex acute hospital / organisation

- Experience of effective implementation of complex multidisciplinary estates related projects.

- Experience of procuring construction & refurbishment work

- Experience of procuring consultants and suppliers

- Experience of managing external building contractors

- Demonstrable management of external advisory consultants as part of a project team

- Evidenced portfolio of previous capital project work with proven record

- Experience of managing projects through the full project lifecycle

- Experience of managing external building contractors within a healthcare environment

- Knowledge of building contract documentation and procurement routes

Knowledge

- An evidenced understanding of the use of clinical output specifications and function contents required for acute hospital planning.

- Awareness of the application of Health Technical Memorandum & Health Building Notes within a healthcare environment.

- A robust and evidenced understanding of the NHS Estates Capital Investment Manual with particular focus on Project Organisation, Management of Construction Projects, Commissioning a Health Care Facility.

- Understanding of clinical relationships/adjacencies within a hospital facility with demonstration of recognised significance of support services, patient experience, consumerism and stakeholder (including patient) consultation.

Skills

- Ability to read and interpret architectural design layouts

- Ability to plan, organise and deliver multi-stranded projects.

- Ability to work without constant direct supervision using own initiative within a constantly changing and demanding work environment.

- Ability to manage own and others work load, using own initiative, as well as being part of a team.

- Strong time management skills, ability to prioritise and meet demanding deadlines.

- Lateral thinker with excellent problem solving skills

- Excellent communication and liaison skills across a wide spectrum of staff groups

- Excellent report writing, verbal and presentation skills

- Highly developed organisational and planning ability

- Evidenced facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills

- Ability to use computer software to create project reports, documents, drawings and other project information with accuracy and attention to detail.

- Ability to assess complex situations and prioritise

- Ability to present multi-stranded project, design, financial and contractual information to a variety of project stakeholders.

Additional Requirements

- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

- Proactive with drive and enthusiasm.

- Commitment to ensure the highest possible professional standards are upheld when delivering capital projects for the Trust.

- Motivated, enthusiastic, conscientious, diplomatic and positive outlook to workload.

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.

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