Senior Project Manager (Sponsorship Available) At The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Employer: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 25 March 2026

Job Summary

Previous applications for this position need not apply – your application is being reviewed.

Right to work: Diversity and inclusion are actively promoted. Please note that this role is unlikely to meet the eligibility requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. Applicants are advised to assess eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Reporting to the Head of Transformation, the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end management of transformational projects across the Trust, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

The post holder will hold professional accountability for the delivery and implementation of a wide range of delegated projects within the Trust’s Transformation Programme. This will include responsibility for the full project lifecycle: project management, design coordination, contract administration, site supervision, commissioning, and ensuring that all works align with strategic objectives, operational needs, and statutory compliance.

The Senior Project Manager will lead project teams comprising internal stakeholders, external consultants, and contractors, ensuring a collaborative and integrated approach to project delivery.

Main Duties of the Job

• To deliver projects from inception to technical and clinical delivery and completion. This will involve planning, monitoring and control of all aspects of a project to ensure that the most cost effective, timely and appropriate solutions are developed to achieve delivery in line with the trusts strategic goals.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of capital projects, from inception to completion, ensuring cost, time, and quality targets are met.
• To design projects in liaison with end users and consultants, setting scopes of work.
• Work with senior stakeholders, including clinical and operational leads, to develop project scopes that align with the Trust’s long-term estate and digital transformation strategies.
• To manage project budgets and ensure that expenditure is contained within approved budgetary constraints.
• To undertake regular and detailed project financial forecast reports and be able to explain and justify these for review with senior management colleagues in both estates and finance.

About The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

The vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. The organisation is proud of its expert and loyal staff and welcomes people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that is done.

Values

The values represent who the organisation is and what it believes in. They define how people act to deliver the best possible care for patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive

Job Responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification at Masters level in management or equivalent formal post graduate senior management development training
• Formal project management qualification, or equivalent experience in programme delivery/PMO-type role
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development relevant to the role

Desirable

• Recognisable management qualification desirable e.g. Diploma
• PRINCE 2 (foundation) qualification or equivalent

Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Extensive, in-depth knowledge and experience across a range of relevant areas, including finance, people management and project management.
• Demonstrable senior management experience in a health or social care organisation.
• Demonstrable ability and experience in budget/financial management.
• Wide ranging experience of leading major change initiatives through to successful delivery, relating to quality, cost and timescales.
• Considerable and demonstrable experience of managing significant change and developing services in difficult or sensitive environments, involving situations of conflict.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the complexity of NHS organisations.
• To have expert knowledge in relation to cancer services and the national cancer agenda.
• Knowledge of policy context relevant to the commissioning and provision of cancer services.
• Knowledge of the role of Cancer Alliances and their relationship to successful delivery, governance and improvement of cancer services.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of leading and implementing system change involving different partners.
• Experience of managing projects across providers, using the full project cycle.

Desirable

• Previous experience of matrix working and/or in a programme management office environment.
• Previous experience of working within a workforce development role / position.
• Previous experience of coaching and/or mentoring others.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

How to Apply

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