Job overview
Are you ready to transform healthcare through innovation, data, and cutting-edge research?
At Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, we’re building a future where research, innovation, and population health are deeply embedded in everything we do. We’re on the lookout for an ambitious, strategic, and dynamic Project Manager to lead our Agile PMO and accelerate bold, system-changing initiatives that impact thousands of lives.
This isn’t just another NHS role. It’s your opportunity to be at the epicentre of innovation — where data, digital, and health expertise converge to reimagine patient care, prevent illness, and reduce health inequalities across the county and beyond.
You’ll Thrive If You:
Love leading agile, cross-functional teams to deliver real-world impact
Have a strong grip on research governance, funding strategy, or health innovation
Are excited by scaling innovations that improve lives and reduce costs
Want to be a change-maker who drives sustainable, scalable health solutions
You will be curious, collaborative, and commercially minded. You love problem-solving and are never afraid to challenge the status quo. You’re a confident communicator with the ability to influence at all levels – from patients and clinicians to board executives and external funders.
Whether you're from a clinical background (nursing, medicine, AHP, pharmacy) or a non-clinical powerhouse (data, digital, finance, health economics), we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
You will be the engine behind our agile transformation, leading high performing "Growth Squads" across research, digital innovation, and population health. You’ll coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to unlock funding, drive strategic projects, and translate national policy into ground-breaking local impact.
You’ll combine financial savvy, project delivery excellence, and bold strategic thinking to:
1. Launch and scale impactful research and innovation projects
2. Drive preventative healthcare models and reducing inequalities
3. Lead on intellectual property, regulatory governance, and strategic grant pipelines
4. Foster partnerships with NHS leaders, commercial innovators, academia, and patients
5. Leading the Agile PMO, embedding a "growth mindset" across our R&I landscape
6. Managing financial performance and unlocking external funding
7. Spearheading performance reporting, impact analysis, and KPI frameworks
8. Representing BHT at regional and national forums
9. Supporting innovative clinics and decision-making in population health
10. Shaping the future of digital health, AI in care pathways, and preventative medicine
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
11. degree or equivalent experience in project management
12. professional certification in Agile, Prince2 Agile, PMP or equivalent
13. leadership of management certification
14. high grade GCSE or equivalent in mathematics and english
Desirable criteria
15. ICH - GCP certification
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
16. management of financial processes and reporting of funded projects
17. experience in NHS or healthcare research environments
18. strong stakeholder management and communication skills at all organisational levels
19. ability to analyse and report performance and financial data
20. leadership and/or line management of colleagues
21. experience of clinical audit and service improvement
22. experience of leading PMO within health research, innovation or complex multi-disciplinary environments
23. experience of co-ordinating cross functional teams and driving organisationally change
KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS
Essential criteria
24. knowledge of UK and international governance framework for research and innovation
25. knowledge of lipid lowering therapies, novel lipid therapies and NICE guidance for lipid therapies for secondary prevention
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
26. Good communication skills
27. Good standard of spoken and written English
28. Able to work on own initiative
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Essential criteria
29. Knowledge of the principles of good clinical practice
30. Experience of research and innovation
31. Experience of clinical audit
32. Knowledge of lipid lowering therapies, NICE guidance (lipid therapies for secondary prevention) and novel lipid therapies.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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