Position
Project Manager
Rate of Pay
£38,000 - £40,000 FTE
Location
Northside House, Bromley
Hours
22.5 hours per week
Responsible to
Operational Lead - Education & Training Team
Accountable to
Chief Executive
Organisation Overview
Primary Care Workforce Academy, incorporating Southeast London Workforce Development Hub and Bromley Education and Training Hub, is dedicated to revolutionising Primary Care Training and Development, empowering healthcare professionals with essential skills for top-tier patient care. Our commitment lies in fostering confidence in every practitioner to navigate the dynamic primary care landscape.
Job Overview
The Project Manager will lead the planning, delivery, and evaluation of projects within both the GPA Training Programme and Education Team. The role will support the development, implementation, and coordination of workforce education, training, and transformation programmes, ensuring delivery to agreed objectives, timescales, quality standards, and budgets.
The post holder will work collaboratively with system partners, including GP practices, PCNs, education providers, and ICS stakeholders, to support a sustainable, skilled, and resilient primary care workforce.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management & Delivery
- Lead and manage GPA Training Programme and support Education Team within Primary Care Workforce Academy (PCWA)
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, risk logs, and reporting documentation.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within agreed resources.
- Apply recognised project management methodologies.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders across primary care, including GP practices, PCNs, training hubs, education providers, and system partners.
- Act as the central point of contact for GPA Programme, facilitating communication and collaboration.
- Support co-design approaches involving clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
Workforce & Education Programmes
- Support the development and implementation of workforce education, training, and career development initiatives.
- Coordinate GPA programme activity such as training pathways, induction models, supervision frameworks, and new roles.
- Coordinate the delivery of training programmes, including scheduling, learner communications, online learning platforms and venue management.
- Support the development and implantation of new education programmes in response to workforce need and NHS priorities.
- Monitor uptake, engagement, and outcomes of initiatives designed, developed and delivered for the GPA Programme
Governance, Reporting & Assurance
- Provide regular progress updates, highlight risks and issues, and propose mitigating actions.
- Prepare reports and papers for programme boards, steering groups, and senior stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with governance, quality, and equality standards.
Financial & Resource Management
- Support budget monitoring, forecasting, and value-for-money considerations.
- Manage external suppliers, contracts, or commissioned services where required.
Evaluation & Continuous Improvement
- Support data collection and evaluation of projects to demonstrate impact and learning.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and best-practice sharing across Primary Care Workforce Academy and wider Primary Care system.
Essential
Desired
Education and Qualification
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
- Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2 Practitioner, Agile, MSP).
Knowledge
- Demonstrable knowledge of project management principles.
- Understanding of primary care and NHS workforce challenges.
Skills
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
- Analytical and problem-solving capability.
Experience
- Proven experience of managing projects or programmes in a complex organisation.
- Experience of working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience of preparing reports and presenting information clearly to varied audiences.
- Experience of managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Experience of workforce development, education, or training programmes.
- Experience working within the NHS, primary care, or an ICS.
- Experience using event management platforms such as livestorm, eventzilla and medtribe.
Other
- Understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion in workforce planning.
Privacy Notice for Job Applicants
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have implemented this privacy notice to inform you, as prospective employees of our Company, of the types of data we process about you. We also include within this notice the reasons for processing your data, the lawful basis that permits us to process it, how long we keep your data for and your rights regarding your data.
A) DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
Under GDPR, all personal data obtained and held by us must be processed according to a set of core principles. In accordance with these principles, we will ensure that:
a) processing is fair, lawful and transparent
b) data is collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes
c) data collected is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes of processing
d) data is kept accurate and up to date. Data which is found to be inaccurate will be rectified or erased without delay
e) data is not kept for longer than is necessary for its given purpose
f) data is processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of personal data including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage by using appropriate technical or organisation measures
g) we comply with the relevant GDPR procedures for international transferring of personal data
B) TYPES OF DATA HELD
We keep several categories of personal data on our prospective employees in order to carry out effective and efficient processes. We keep this data in recruitment files relating to each vacancy and we also hold the data within our computer systems, for example, recruitment logs.
Specifically, we hold the following types of data:
a) personal details such as name, address, phone numbers;
b) name and contact details of your next of kin;
c) your photograph;
d) your gender, marital status, information of any disability you have or other medical information;
e) right to work documentation;
f) information on your race and religion for equality monitoring purposes;
g) information gathered via the recruitment process such as that entered into a CV or included in a CV cover letter;
h) references from former employers;
i) details on your education and employment history etc;
j) driving licence;
k) criminal convictions.
C) COLLECTING YOUR DATA
You provide several pieces of data to us directly during the recruitment exercise.
In some cases, we will collect data about you from third parties, such as employment agencies, former employers when gathering references or credit reference agencies.
Should you be successful in your job application, we will gather further information from you, for example, your bank details and next of kin details, once your employment begins.
D) LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING
The law on data protection allows us to process your data for certain reasons only.
The information below categorises the types of data processing we undertake and the lawful basis we rely on.
Activity requiring your data
Lawful basis
Carrying out checks in relation to your right to work in the UK
Legal obligation
Making reasonable adjustments for disabled employees
Legal obligation
Making recruitment decisions in relation to both initial and subsequent employment e.g. promotion
Our legitimate interests
Making decisions about salary and other benefits
Our legitimate interests
Making decisions about contractual benefits to provide to you
Our legitimate interests
Assessing training needs
Our legitimate interests
Dealing with legal claims made against us
Our legitimate interests
Preventing fraud
Our legitimate interests
E) SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF DATA
Special categories of data are data relating to your:
a) health
b) sex life
c) sexual orientation
d) race
e) ethnic origin
f) political opinion
g) religion
h) trade union membership
i) genetic and biometric data.
We carry out processing activities using special category data:
a) for the purposes of equal opportunities monitoring
b) to determine reasonable adjustments
Most commonly, we will process special categories of data when the following applies:
a) you have given explicit consent to the processing
b) we must process the data in order to carry out our legal obligations
c) we must process data for reasons of substantial public interest
d) you have already made the data public.
F) FAILURE TO PROVIDE DATA
Your failure to provide us with data may mean that we are unable to fulfil our requirements for entering into a contract of employment with you. This could include being unable to offer you employment or administer contractual benefits.
G) CRIMINAL CONVICTION DATA
We will only collect criminal conviction data where it is appropriate given the nature of your role and where the law permits us. This data will usually be collected at the recruitment stage, however, may also be collected during your employment. We use criminal conviction data to determine your suitability, or your continued suitability for the role. We rely on the lawful basis of our legitimate interests to process this data.
H) WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
Employees within our company who have responsibility for recruitment will have access to your data which is relevant to their function. All employees with such responsibility have been trained in ensuring data is processed in line with GDPR.
The Company will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The Company will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks and the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.
We may also share your data with third parties as part of a Company sale or restructure, or for other reasons to comply with a legal obligation upon us. We have a data processing agreement in place with such third parties to ensure data is not compromised. Third parties must implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of your data.
We do not share your data with bodies outside of the European Economic Area.
I) PROTECTING YOUR DATA
We are aware of the requirement to ensure your data is protected against accidental loss or disclosure, destruction and abuse. We have implemented processes to guard against such.
J) RETENTION PERIODS
We only keep your data for as long as we need it for, which, in relation to unsuccessful candidates, is six months to a year.
If your application is not successful and we have not sought consent or you have not provided consent upon our request to keep your data for the purpose of future suitable job vacancies, we will keep your data for six months once the recruitment exercise ends.
If we have sought your consent to keep your data on file for future job vacancies, and you have provided consent, we will keep your data for nine months once the recruitment exercise ends. At the end of this period, we will delete or destroy your data, unless you have already withdrawn your consent to our processing of your data in which case it will be deleted or destroyed upon your withdrawal of consent.
Where you have provided consent to our use of your data, you also have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This means that we will stop processing your data and there will be no consequences of withdrawing consent.
If your application is successful, your data will be kept and transferred to the systems we administer for employees. We have a separate privacy notice for employees, which will be provided to you.
K) AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING
Automated decision making means making decision about you using no human involvement e.g. using computerised filtering equipment. No decision will be made about you solely on the basis of automated decision making (where a decision is taken about you using an electronic system without human involvement) which has a significant impact on you.
L) YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights in relation to the personal data we hold on you:
a) the right to be informed about the data we hold on you and what we do with it;
b) the right of access to the data we hold on you. We operate a separate Subject Access Request policy and all such requests will be dealt with accordingly;
c) the right for any inaccuracies in the data we hold on you, however they come to light, to be corrected. This is also known as ‘rectification’;
d) the right to have data deleted in certain circumstances. This is also known as ‘erasure’;
e) the right to restrict the processing of the data;
f) the right to transfer the data we hold on you to another party. This is also known as ‘portability’;
g) the right to object to the inclusion of any information;
h) the right to regulate any automated decision-making and profiling of personal data.
In addition to the above rights, you also have the unrestricted right to withdraw consent, that you have previously provided, to our processing of your data at any time. Withdrawing your consent means that we will stop processing the data that you had previously given us consent to use. There will be no consequences for withdrawing your consent. However, in some cases, we may continue to use the data where so permitted by having a legitimate reason for doing so.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights explained above, please contact The HR Team.
M) MAKING A COMPLAINT
If you think your data rights have been breached, you are able to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner (ICO). You can contact the ICO at Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF or by telephone on 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745.
N) DATA PROTECTION COMPLIANCE
Our appointed compliance officer in respect of this privacy notice and related data protection activities is:
Tara Field
[email protected]
Pay: £38,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Bromley BR1 3WA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
