Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 325-7390859-CORP
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust Headquarters
- Town
- Leatherhead
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Project Manager (Digital)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
The Trust’s strategic focus is on creating a digital environment that simplifies processes, enhances collaboration, and ensures that staff can focus on delivering high-quality care without being burdened by unnecessary administrative tasks or inefficient systems.
Our Electronic Health Record (EHR) support services within the Digital division are aligned to establish a more integrated team to improve collaboration and communication between the EHR facing teams and as a result improving the quality of support provided to our frontline staff.
A Digital Project Management Office (PMO) has been introduced to better manage the numerous, complex projects that are ongoing within the division and support the effective delivery of digital projects and programmes and digital workstreams in Trust projects and programmes.
Main duties of the job
Provide project management to the Digital Department, working across the Digital Directorate and with stakeholders in the Trust and beyond.
Establish and maintain a wide range of effective working relationships across SABP, delivering a range of digital projects and/or digital workstreams within trust agreed programmes of work.
Use an appropriate project management methodology to manage allocated projects through their lifecycle from inception to delivery.
Drive and coordinate the planning and delivery of a range of Digital projects including developing project plans to ensure delivery against key project milestones using appropriate project planning approaches.
To deal with highly complex information, understand interdependencies between initiatives and projects, and have possibly contentious conversations with colleagues on delivery status.
To facilitate and enable high-level thinking, visioning and problem solving, in sessions that are designed to encourage the right kind of discussions with clear objectives and outputs
Provide project management and support to technical teams and the wider Digital Directorate including planning, implementation, project progress reporting and presentations.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
"Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job."
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level
- Certification in Project Management (Agile Project Management, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP or similar) or equivalent experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Experience of project management in a complex organisation
- Significant experience of using a range of project management methodologies in a complex organisation.
- Experience of planning, implementing and delivering a range of complex projects
- Experience of working in a project environment.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Shearn
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Digital
- Email address
- [email protected]
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