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Job summary

Main area
Administrative
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (-)
Job ref
220-WHT-3707
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Whittington Hospital,
Town
Jenner Building,
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/03/2026 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Project Manager – Start Well

Band 7

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Job overview

The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering the Start Well programme, which aims to transform maternity, neonatal, and paediatric services across North Central London to ensure every child has the best start in life.  

Reporting to the Programme Manager, the post holder will manage defined projects and workstreams within the programme, ensuring they are well-organised, delivered on time, and achieve agreed outcomes. 

 

Main duties of the job

·         Coordinate project activities, including scheduling, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.

·         Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and escalate concerns appropriately.

·         Prepare reports, presentations, and updates for programme boards and stakeholders.

·         Support the development and implementation of new models of care and service pathways.

·         Facilitate workshops and meetings with clinical and operational teams to gather input and drive consensus.

·         Ensure compliance with governance processes and maintain accurate project documentation.

·         Contribute to benefits tracking and evaluation to demonstrate value for money and improved outcomes.

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Working for our organisation

Whittington Health aims to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve. 

We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an ‘integrated care organisation’. 

The Start Well programme represents a major reconfiguration of maternity, neonatal, and paediatric surgical services across North Central London (NCL), following a strategic commissioning process that spanned over three years. In March 2025, the NCL Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS England Specialised Commissioning approved the eventual closure of the maternity and neonatal unit at the Royal Free Hospital and the birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre. This decision marks a significant milestone in the region’s healthcare transformation, positioning NCL as a leader in post[1]COVID system reconfiguration.

 

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

·         Coordinate project activities, including scheduling, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.

·         Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and escalate concerns appropriately.

·         Prepare reports, presentations, and updates for programme boards and stakeholders.

·         Support the development and implementation of new models of care and service pathways.

·         Facilitate workshops and meetings with clinical and operational teams to gather input and drive consensus.

·         Ensure compliance with governance processes and maintain accurate project documentation.

·         Contribute to benefits tracking and evaluation to demonstrate value for money and improved outcomes.

Project Management

·         Support the programme team and director in the delivery of project plans, undertaking and allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.

·         Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to, and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.

·         Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.

·         Responsible for the planning and organisation of numerous events/meetings. Ensuring

·         communication tools are used to their maximum value for circulating the minutes, agenda, and presentations in a timely manner.

·         Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels.

·         Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, are actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS.

·         Responsible for planning and organising a wide range of highly complex activities, including

·         stakeholder management, clinical expert groups and project governance groups

·         Responsible for the development of systems and performance analytics to manage and report on the progress of the project to key groups such as the Programme Board and Implementation Leadership Group

·         Responsible for the analysis and interpretation of a range of information and its presentation to a wide variety of stakeholders.

 

Person specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level or equivalent experience
  • Project management qualification
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Understanding of the health and care system and service transformation
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Start Well scope

Work Experience

Essential criteria
  • Coordinating projects in complex, multi stakeholder environments (matrix working)
  • Risk, issue and dependency management (RAID), project reporting
  • Preparing briefing papers, board updates and presentations
  • Service redesign / improvement projects within healthcare
Desirable criteria
  • Monitoring project budgets and supporting benefits tracking (value for money)
  • Working across trusts/ICB partners (e.g., Whittington, UCLH, RFL)

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Analyse complex information, develop options and make recommendations
  • Planning and organisation over short/medium time frames; adjust plans/resource
  • Stakeholder engagement: present complex/sensitive information and negotiate
  • Proficiency with project tools (e.g., MS Project/SharePoint) and MS Office
  • Knowledge of programme/project governance; equality, diversity and inclusion

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Mansuralli
Job title
Programme Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0207 2723070
Additional information

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