Job Description

Are you passionate about enhancing lives through data and technology? We're offering a 12-month fixed term until 11 January 2027 Senior Project Manager role within our Identity and Access Management (IAM) portfolio.



IAM enables secure, reliable, and convenient access to patient data for over one million health and social care professionals via the Care Identity Service, overseeing essential national authentication platforms. Our team supports products and services aimed at simplifying and securing authentication, identity verification, and access management for staff.



As Senior Project Manager, you'll be a vital member of our agile delivery team, leading the NHS National Single Sign-On programme and providing maternity cover. You'll drive project delivery, engage stakeholders, and oversee business adoption, ensuring strong support across the full delivery lifecycle. The evolving nature of our programmes means you'll have the flexibility to lead priority projects as needed, contributing to transformation and delivering value for money in planning, commissioning, and service. This role is designed to develop both technical expertise and subject matter knowledge for robust service delivery.

The Senior Project Manager you will:

Identify, clarify, measure, track, and ensure ownership of all project benefits.

Adapt readily and provide support for new programmes and projects as needed.

Develop and maintain secure, effective information systems for storing and managing project documentation (including PIDs, dashboards, highlight reports, and risk/issue logs).

Uphold the highest standards of professionalism in all public interactions with the Programme Office.

Embed patient and public involvement at every relevant level of decision making.

Champion best practice by learning from experience and others, and encourage innovation throughout the organisation.

Contribute to the evolution of project and programme management approaches and working methods across the organisation as part of a Project and Programme Management community of practice.

Effectively monitor and manage budgets, following all organisational financial policies and procedures.

Consistently seek value for money and ensure financial balance is maintained.

Provide timely and accurate financial updates and reports as required.



The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:



Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.



Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.



Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care



Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation



Delivering value for money.



If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.



Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.



Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.



If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.



Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is Maternity cover.



You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached and other supporting documents.

Secondments



Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.