Project Manager (SWASH)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This Project Manager role is a key part of the SWASH+ Service Management Team, focusing on the day-to-day management and delivery of Digital Radiology projects. The post holder will drive major schemes or several smaller initiatives through the entire project lifecycle, from business case development to implementation and closure. Responsibilities include coordinating resources, managing risks, engaging stakeholders, and adapting to emerging needs to ensure projects are delivered efficiently, on time, and within budget. The role also involves planning and executing ad hoc change initiatives to meet service demands and digital transformation goals.
Essential criteria
- Master's degree or equivalent specialist knowledge.
- Evidence of further professional development.
- PRINCE 2 Foundation or PRINCE 2 Practitioner certificate.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to develop collaborative and effective working relationships with all project stakeholders and team members.
- Able to identify and apply project and programme methodologies with consideration to the scale and complexity of individual projects.
- Ability to work on own initiative, leading and motivating other staff to deliver set objectives on time and within target.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable ability to lead large, complex projects.
- Previous experience of patient workflows, patient care and working within the NHS.
- Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge of benefits planning and management.
- Knowledge of service improvement tools and techniques.
- Knowledge of gathering user requirements and of user-centred design principles.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- Understanding of diagnostic imaging services and systems (Specifically PACS & RIS).
- Understanding of healthcare information and information systems.
- Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2).
- Understanding of current Information Governance legislation and policy.
- Master's degree or equivalent specialist knowledge.
- Evidence of further professional development.
- PRINCE 2 Foundation or PRINCE 2 Practitioner certificate.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to develop collaborative and effective working relationships with all project stakeholders and team members.
- Able to identify and apply project and programme methodologies with consideration to the scale and complexity of individual projects.
- Ability to work on own initiative, leading and motivating other staff to deliver set objectives on time and within target.
- Demonstrable ability to lead large, complex projects.
- Previous experience of patient workflows, patient care and working within the NHS.
- Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge of benefits planning and management.
- Knowledge of service improvement tools and techniques.
- Knowledge of gathering user requirements and of user-centred design principles.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- Understanding of diagnostic imaging services and systems (Specifically PACS & RIS).
- Understanding of healthcare information and information systems.
- Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2).
- Understanding of current Information Governance legislation and policy.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Project Manager (SWASH)
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
NHS Band 6 Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per
annum
Hours per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs
Contract type: Permanent
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the SWASH+ Service Management Team, the Project Manager will take ownership of the day-to-day management and delivery of Digital Radiology projects. Acting under the delegated authority of the project board, the post holder will be responsible for driving one major scheme or several smaller initiatives through the entire project lifecycle from initial business case development and detailed planning through to implementation and project closure.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you wi
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