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Job summary

Main area
PMO
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
241-494CD-26
Employer
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Dowling House
Town
Bolton
Salary
£39,959 - £56,515 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/08/2026 23:59

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Project Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

 


 

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join the Programme Management Office at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, where you will play a key role in supporting colleagues to transform and improve services.

We are interested in receiving applications from individuals with a passion for PMO working, in a complex and fast-paced healthcare provider environment.

If you are excited by the challenge of working in a PMO function, to deliver world class healthcare for patients, and support the organisation to meet its strategic objectives, we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

As Project Manager within the PMO, you will be responsible for supporting our teams to develop and deliver schemes within the Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) plan. 

You will be responsible for maintaining high levels of governance across the CIP schemes and will work with key stakeholders to project documentation is completed to a consistently high standard. 

You will need to possess excellent project management skills and have a good working knowledge of finance within the NHS. You will need to be able to analyse and interpret complex financial data and present it clearly so that it is understandable to a wide audience. 

Working for our organisation

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values.  

The aims of this Trust are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff has joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve. We value our staff and can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development. We are keen to reflect our local population and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.

If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner level
  • Relevant post graduate qualification
  • MSP

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in managing a varied and demanding portfolio of tasks
  • Experience in managing staff
  • Proven successful track record in leading and supporting the delivery of a complex project(s
  • Proven successful track record in applying financial control and achieving financial savings targets;
  • Proven successful track record in leading, challenging and performance-managing teams and individuals
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in leading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation
  • Experience of using a variety of improvement methodologies to deliver benefits

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience of providing and receiving information, which can be highly complex, sensitive, or contentious, requiring persuasion, negotiation, diplomatic and motivational skills
  • Highly developed and effective communication skills. Communication may be oral, and written, in the form of letters and reports, to staff at all levels in the Trust, and external to the Trust.
Desirable criteria
  • The ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information both formally and informally to small groups and present to large audiences

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of NHS strategy/policy
  • Detailed knowledge of, and demonstrable experience in, the application of best practice project management methodology.
  • Knowledge and understanding of clinical and corporate governance and risk management systems and processes
  • Knowledge and understanding of emerging national NHS policy.
Desirable criteria
  • Significant experience of the NHS operational environment, patient care and clinical safety and quality domains

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Mellor
Job title
Head of PMO
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01204 390390
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