Location: Cora Health, The Lightbox, Quorum Park, Benton Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE12 8EU
Contract Type: 12 month FTC
Salary: competitive
Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS
Purpose of the Job Role
The Project Manager is responsible for delivering IT projects in line with agreed timeframes, scope, and budget. The role provides professional project management expertise across the organisation, working closely with key stakeholders to drive engagement, alignment, and adherence to delivery processes. This includes ensuring projects have clear objectives, well-defined scope, measurable benefits, and effective transition into live service, while supporting the wider change framework and team capability development.
What you’ll be doing
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Ensure projects are initiated and delivered in line with the organisation’s project management framework and standards.
- Monitor and manage project progress against objectives, keeping stakeholders fully informed of progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define detailed project scope, requirements, and acceptance criteria linked to business benefits.
- Coordinate project team activities, allocate resources, and manage budgets and financial targets.
- Prepare and present project information to programme boards and support effective decision-making.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, plans, and records using project management tools.
- Identify and track financial benefits, including measurable outcomes such as cost savings and efficiencies.
- Support organisational change and transition, including service design, go-live readiness, and post-implementation activities.
- Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships to maximise value delivery.
- Attend CAB and contribute to release management, prioritisation, testing, and validation.
- Provide project management support across the organisation and assist the Portfolio Manager in team capability development.
What we’re Looking For
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Strong project management expertise with proven ability to deliver IT/digital projects on time, within scope and budget.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, influencing at all levels with clarity and transparency.
- Solid experience in Agile, PRINCE2 or hybrid methodologies, including planning, risk management, and benefits realisation.
- Proficient in project management tools (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Monday.com) and governance standards.
- Financial awareness, including budgeting, cost tracking, and ROI/benefit measurement.
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills with resilience in fast-paced, changing environments.
- Knowledge of healthcare operations, digital transformation, and DevOps/software development practices.
Why work for Cora Health?
At Cora we’re passionate about investing in our colleagues, fostering professional growth, and ensuring everyone feels appreciated. We believe that happy and engaged colleagues provide exceptional patient care and will be motivated to perform at their best. Here's a glimpse of what we offer you:
Generous Holiday Entitlement: Benefit from up to 25 days of holiday (plus public holidays) to relax and recharge. You’ll also get another day off for your Birthday. If you’d like even more holiday to enjoy you can participate in our generous holiday buy and sell scheme.
Wellness Support: Access a suite of health support tools and an employee assistance program for your well-being so you can be at your best and be your true self.
Performance Awards: Excel in your objectives and be rewarded further for your hard work with a range of pay, gifts and incentives awarded alongside attending our annual colleague awards to be treated and feel special.
Savings and Support: Make huge saving by making the most of Blue Light and Healthcare Services discounts as well as the very important employer pension contributions and a Christmas savings club.
Membership Fee Reimbursement: Save your pennies, as we cover the cost of role required professional membership fees.
Flexibility: Work in a way that supports home live, through hybrid working options and flexibility in working hours and times.
