Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 per year
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Band: 8a – Agenda for Change
Closing Date: 14 September 2025
Job Summary
This role is focused on commissioning and project managing major capital schemes or a series of projects of significant capital value.
Responsibilities include:
Planning and managing a wide range of capital projects to high technical standards.
Ensuring delivery is efficient, professional, and aligned with stakeholder requirements.
Embracing best practice and innovation while ensuring statutory compliance, quality, and value for money.
Leading a team of Building Surveyors, Engineers, and Commissioning Managers to deliver on the Trust’s capital programme.
Main Duties
Manage complex capital projects within the Trust’s capital programme.
Work collaboratively with the Department of Health, Sheffield City Council, Trust Executive, and other external agencies.
Ensure projects are developed and progressed according to “project management” best practice.
Provide leadership and support to align projects with the Trust’s strategic direction and NHS priorities.
Take responsibility for all project stages: from briefing and design through to tender, construction, commissioning, hand-over, and post-project evaluation.
About Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Trust values and respects staff and the community it serves. It is recognised as a leader in both the NHS and research sectors.
Employees benefit from:
Professional development opportunities.
Strong support for balancing personal and professional lives.
A workplace culture built on respect and inclusion.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential:
Previous project management experience with in-depth technical and financial knowledge.
Experience in Estates Capital Management team-level work and contributing to directorate-level topics.
Extensive project management experience, including managing multiple projects in a live environment.
Experience deputising for senior colleagues.
Proven clarity on project and organisational expectations during planning.
Ability to prioritise objectives, identify root causes, and make collaborative decisions.
Experience contributing to business cases under the Capital Investment Manual.
Extensive experience with budgeting, cost control, and cash flow forecasting.
High-level technical competency in planning and managing complex health facilities.
Knowledge of NHS Design Guidance, Health Building Notes, Health Technical Memoranda, and DCAGs.
Experience managing capital schemes under SFI’s/SO’s in a healthcare environment.
Knowledge of engineering technology, building elements, regulations, and contracts.
Experience as a change manager in large organisations.
Desirable:
Experience in both public and private sectors.
Completed Finance Training Programme.
Qualifications
Essential:
Educated to Degree level or equivalent.
Post-graduate managerial knowledge and skills.
Estates Management-related professional qualification and membership (e.g., RICS, MCIBSE, MCIOB, RIBA).
PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner certification.
Desirable:
MBA.
Formal project management qualification.
Further Training
Essential:
Engineering Design.
Construction H&S.
CDM Regulations.
Building Contracts.
Special Skills / Aptitudes
Essential:
Successful team leadership and ability to motivate others.
Ability to plan and adjust operations strategically over long periods.
Strong financial awareness and business acumen.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to gain trust and credibility.
Lateral thinking and problem-solving at project level.
Ability to manage multiple diverse projects under tight timescales.
Commitment to teamwork, initiative, and customer service.
Strong management skills with capacity for long-term strategic direction.
Role model leadership, promoting diversity and learning within teams.
Experience with HR, finance, and information issues in large organisations.
Negotiation and persuasion skills.
Understanding and managing change processes.
Proficiency with software: CAD, spreadsheets, word processing, project management tools, stakeholder mapping, databases, internet.
Additional Information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post requires a DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from candidates requiring Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome and will be considered alongside others. Skilled Worker applicants must provide a criminal record certificate for any country resided in for 12 months or more over the past 10 years.
UK Registration
Applicants must hold current UK professional registration.
How to Apply
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