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Band 7
Full-time, Flexible working

Band 7 - Delivery Manager, Efficiency Team

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford General Hospital, Watford, WD18 0HB, United Kingdom£49,387 - £56,515Closes 17/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 7
Contract
Secondment
Pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Posted
11/09/2026
Closes
17/09/2026

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Role summary

The Delivery Manager will lead strategic projects and transformation programmes, managing them from initiation to benefits realisation. This involves ensuring projects meet objectives, timescales, budgets, and quality standards. The role requires working with multidisciplinary teams, providing project leadership, and overseeing planning, governance, risk management, and reporting. The manager will also contribute to programme planning and continuous improvement within the organisation.

Essential criteria

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

  • PRINCE2 Practitioner Master's Degree.
  • CCAB qualified accountant and or other CIMA qualified.
  • PRINCE2 or other structured methodology.
  • Project or change management best practice.
  • MS Office including MS Project.
  • CAPM.
  • Relevant experience of project Implementation
  • Experience in delivering improvement projects across various disciplines
  • Proven ability to prioritise and organise workload
  • Experience in financial management and budgeting skills.
  • Experience at a management level.
  • Experience of working within a finance team.
  • Education and qualifications
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent.
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner Master's Degree.
  • CCAB qualified accountant and or other CIMA qualified.
  • PRINCE2 or other structured methodology.
  • Project or change management best practice.
  • MS Office including MS Project.
  • CAPM.
  • Relevant experience of project Implementation
  • Experience in delivering improvement projects across various disciplines
  • Proven ability to prioritise and organise workload
  • Experience in financial management and budgeting skills.
  • Experience at a management level.
  • Experience of working within a finance team.

Useful to know

Band 7 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.

This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 7 - Delivery Manager, Efficiency Team

The closing date is 17 September 2026

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of strategic projects and transformation programmes across the organisation. The post holder will be responsible for managing projects from initiation through to implementation and benefits realisation, ensuring delivery to agreed objectives, timescales, budgets and quality standards.

Working closely with clinical, operational and corporate stakeholders, you will provide project leadership, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and support the delivery of organisational priorities. You will oversee project planning, governance, risk and issue management, performance reporting and assurance processes, ensuring that projects remain on track and deliver measurable outcomes.

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Main duties of the job

Lead and manage the delivery of multiple projects and workstreams, ensuring achievement of agreed objectives and benefits.

Develop and maintain project plans, reporting frameworks, risk registers and governance documentation.

Monitor project performance, identifying risks, issues and depen

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