Project Manager & PA
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation TrustLeatherhead, London
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust based in Leatherhead. The advertised salary is £51,657 to £58,785. Applications close on 2 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
This post will be part of the Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Divisional Management Team. The role of the post holder is to support the Div...
- Provide a clear and visible overview of the divisional project activity to support the safe and timely delivery of key projects.
- Ensure sound project governance and reporting arrangements are established for all key projects and other pieces of work undertaken for the division; defining and establishing the standard for all documentation, from start to finish, providing these tools and, where necessary, supporting teams to populate them.
- Provide advice, challenge and practical help to teams to define and plot clear plans which will deliver the change, and outcomes/benefits, they need.
- Lead the active project management of key projects to deliver our Strategic Plan, e.g. strategic direction for Social Care Services, holding all workstream leads to account for delivery outcomes against agreed milestones.
- Use project management experience and skills to understand highly complex situations and information, identify issues, gather, collate and sift information.
- Work with the Quality Improvement team to help drive and mobilise innovations and improvements across the division.
- Work with the divisional teams to clearly articulate risks that have been identified within the project(s) and ensure they are recorded on our risk register as appropriate.
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Essential: - Educated to master level or equivalent experience; - Formal training programme and project management e.g. Prince 2/ Agile or equivalent
Essential: - Experience delivering successfully implemented project within a Prince 2 and or Agile methodology; - Knowledge and experience of delivering projects across organisational boundaries; - Experience working as a PA; - Good understanding of risk management and management of risk factors; - Experience of presenting complex ideas clearly and efficiently; - Proficient in using Microsoft packages e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel etc.
Desirable: - Experience in working in the NHS and the public sector; experience of working within the mental health and learning disability sector is desirable but not essential
How this role compares
We hold 1,283 NHS vacancies in London that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £45,953. This role pays more than about 61% of them.
There are 13,072 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,768 of them in London.
You have 11 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 14 days, so this is about the usual amount of time.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has 47 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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