Job summary
The South East Genomic Medicine Service (GMS) is recruiting a Project Manager to develop and deliver some exciting new projects at the start of a newly awarded 10 year contract. If you are someone who loves taking on new challenges, bringing structure to complex projects and driving change then this could be the role for you!
You would join a dynamic and enthusiastic team who are committed to embedding genomic medicine across the region. This role will work across clinical specialties and sit within an established structure that enables collaborative working and continued development.
It's an exciting time to join the GMS with opportunities to shape the service in its new structure and take on some new projects that can have real impact on patients and clinicians across the South East region.
Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas', you'll have access to all of the Trust benefits as well as being connected with colleagues from across the South East region that we serve. The team also run regular socials and have an annual Staff Day with awards to recognise and celebrate colleagues from all departments.
If you are an enthusiastic and driven project manager who is passionate about embedding genomics into the NHS then we'd love to hear from you!
Interviews will be held in person at Guy's Hospital on Thursday 30th April 2026
Candidates who are unable to attend on this date will be offered an alternative where possible.
Main duties of the job
The South East Genomic Medicine Service (SE GMS) is seeking a Project Manager to support a diverse portfolio of projects and improvement initiatives that drive the integration of genomic testing into routine NHS care.
You will join a growing, collaborative team of Project Managers delivering projects across key clinical areas, with opportunities to work regionally and share learning across specialties. Key programmes include the rollout of the Sudden Cardiac Death pathway, development of Population Health services, an AI-driven clinical trial matching service, and ongoing advancements in cancer genomic medicine.
Using structured methodologies and best practice, you will scope, plan and deliver projects of varying complexity, working closely with internal and external stakeholders. The role also includes line management responsibilities, supporting the delivery of complex programmes.
You will lead day-to-day project delivery, stakeholder engagement and impact evaluation, bringing a proactive, organised and innovative approach to overcoming the challenges of embedding genomic medicine within the NHS.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, with the chance to shape new projects from inception and evolve existing initiatives--playing a key role in transforming patient care through genomics.
About us
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team at the start of a newly awarded 10-year contract for the South East Genomic Medicine Service (GMS).
Part of the national NHS Genomic Medicine Service--bringing together seven GMS regions and 17 regional clinical genetics services--the South East GMS covers South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex. We deliver standardised genomic testing pathways aligned to the National Genomic Test Directory and support the integration of genomic medicine into routine care.
Our mission is to reduce unwarranted variation and improve patient outcomes by ensuring clinical care fully benefits from advances in genomics. We play a key role in driving collaboration across specialties and providing clinical leadership to enable a multi-professional workforce to use genomics safely, effectively and efficiently.
We are committed to addressing health inequalities caused by historically unequal access to genomic services. This includes building a diverse team that reflects our communities, strengthening links with primary care, and ensuring strong patient representation across our work.
Operating within an integrated governance structure, accountable to the GMS Partnership Board and including partner Trusts, we are shaping a more equitable and innovative future for healthcare.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Project Management
- Apply a structured project management approach for the delivery of specific projects across the GMS
- Lead the development of project plans and the delivery of agreed objectives in line with wider programme strategy
- Maintain all necessary project documentation, including business cases, project initiation documents, project plans, risk registers, etc
- Ensure that the scope and deliverables of projects will result in operational benefits, and implement means of measuring these. Identify potential benefits and assist in the development of a benefits realisation plan to maximise value and build upon the ideas of patients and other key stakeholders
- Organise, directly manage and monitor project team resources to ensure their effective use while delivering against agreed objectives
- Organise project meetings, ensuring that regular meetings are established, reports are produced and disseminated in a timely way and actions are followed up
- Lead service level workshops with admin, management and clinical teams
- Produce presentation and communications material to introduce change projects and delivery plans, and to communicate information on the delivery progress of the project(s) to key stakeholders as required
- Provide scheduled highlight and exception reports per project, tracking milestones, for circulation to more senior project leads
- Identify risks and support actions to mitigate these in order to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality
- Co-ordinate minutes, agendas and papers for distribution in preparation for meetings, ensuring this is done in a timely manner
- Support evaluation and audit of projects across sites and organisations
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to promote inclusivity and diversity and ensure all projects and initiatives are designed and delivered in line with principles of equality, diversity and inclusion
Financial management
- Support the management of contracts, specifications for tenders and awarding of new contracts
- Manage a delegated budget for own area of work to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary reports
- Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage
- Support the commissioning and procurement of products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the project
Staff and stakeholder management
- Line manage a small team of junior project and programme staff
- Motivate and encourage your team to strive for service and personal improvement
- Demonstrates a strong ability to manage, motivate and develop staff
- Support engagement plans for project to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project
- Support strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians
- Support delivery plans and ensure these are regularly updated for all projects
- Support specific project management training and model practices to both internal staff members and external stakeholders and partners
- Work collaboratively across regional stakeholders to ensure broad input in the development and delivery of projects, including patient and public voice
Information management
- Monitor and maintain project information management systems
- Maintain data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data
- Maintain databases required by the project
- Interpret policies and protocols to support the project that are consistent with Trust standards
Personal Development
- Maintain up to date knowledge of a range of skills including project management techniques and be responsible for developing and maintaining own CPD programm
Research and Development
- Undertake primary and secondary research, audits and evaluations as required
General
- Autonomy for specific areas of directorate, to assess the impact of change and make decisions, balancing risks and priorities
- Proactive in identifying and addressing issues which are significant within and across directorates
Job description
Job responsibilities
Project Management
- Apply a structured project management approach for the delivery of specific projects across the GMS
- Lead the development of project plans and the delivery of agreed objectives in line with wider programme strategy
- Maintain all necessary project documentation, including business cases, project initiation documents, project plans, risk registers, etc
- Ensure that the scope and deliverables of projects will result in operational benefits, and implement means of measuring these. Identify potential benefits and assist in the development of a benefits realisation plan to maximise value and build upon the ideas of patients and other key stakeholders
- Organise, directly manage and monitor project team resources to ensure their effective use while delivering against agreed objectives
- Organise project meetings, ensuring that regular meetings are established, reports are produced and disseminated in a timely way and actions are followed up
- Lead service level workshops with admin, management and clinical teams
- Produce presentation and communications material to introduce change projects and delivery plans, and to communicate information on the delivery progress of the project(s) to key stakeholders as required
- Provide scheduled highlight and exception reports per project, tracking milestones, for circulation to more senior project leads
- Identify risks and support actions to mitigate these in order to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality
- Co-ordinate minutes, agendas and papers for distribution in preparation for meetings, ensuring this is done in a timely manner
- Support evaluation and audit of projects across sites and organisations
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to promote inclusivity and diversity and ensure all projects and initiatives are designed and delivered in line with principles of equality, diversity and inclusion
Financial management
- Support the management of contracts, specifications for tenders and awarding of new contracts
- Manage a delegated budget for own area of work to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary reports
- Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage
- Support the commissioning and procurement of products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the project
Staff and stakeholder management
- Line manage a small team of junior project and programme staff
- Motivate and encourage your team to strive for service and personal improvement
- Demonstrates a strong ability to manage, motivate and develop staff
- Support engagement plans for project to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project
- Support strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians
- Support delivery plans and ensure these are regularly updated for all projects
- Support specific project management training and model practices to both internal staff members and external stakeholders and partners
- Work collaboratively across regional stakeholders to ensure broad input in the development and delivery of projects, including patient and public voice
Information management
- Monitor and maintain project information management systems
- Maintain data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data
- Maintain databases required by the project
- Interpret policies and protocols to support the project that are consistent with Trust standards
Personal Development
- Maintain up to date knowledge of a range of skills including project management techniques and be responsible for developing and maintaining own CPD programm
Research and Development
- Undertake primary and secondary research, audits and evaluations as required
General
- Autonomy for specific areas of directorate, to assess the impact of change and make decisions, balancing risks and priorities
- Proactive in identifying and addressing issues which are significant within and across directorates
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of recent continued professional development
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills or experience
Desirable
- Understanding of lean methodology or formal qualification in project management
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of managing successful projects or service improvements in a multi-professional environment
- Evidence of designing a project and monitoring its progress and outputs
- Experience of working and communicating with senior stakeholders across a multi-disciplinary audience
- Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries to achieve common goals
Desirable
- Experience working in a complex NHS environment
- Experience in genomic medicine service environments with an understanding of stakeholders and structures
Skills
Essential
- Ability to define, scope, plan and implement a project from conception through to completion, with demonstratable track record of success
- Well developed understanding and skills in operational/project/change management methodologies and techniques
- Ability to write and present accurate and concise materials and to deliver complex messages to audiences of varied expertise, to inform and influence decision makers
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, networking and negotiation skills
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy and policy agendas
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of recent continued professional development
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge, skills or experience
Desirable
- Understanding of lean methodology or formal qualification in project management
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of managing successful projects or service improvements in a multi-professional environment
- Evidence of designing a project and monitoring its progress and outputs
- Experience of working and communicating with senior stakeholders across a multi-disciplinary audience
- Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries to achieve common goals
Desirable
- Experience working in a complex NHS environment
- Experience in genomic medicine service environments with an understanding of stakeholders and structures
Skills
Essential
- Ability to define, scope, plan and implement a project from conception through to completion, with demonstratable track record of success
- Well developed understanding and skills in operational/project/change management methodologies and techniques
- Ability to write and present accurate and concise materials and to deliver complex messages to audiences of varied expertise, to inform and influence decision makers
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, networking and negotiation skills
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy and policy agendas
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
