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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.
• 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

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.
Documents to download

• Project Manager - Start Well (PDF, 265.7KB)
• Person spec-Project Manager - Start Well (PDF, 265.7KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)