Project Manager

Project Manager

Elstree Warehouse and London Sites

Depending on Experience

Job Title : Project Manager (12 months fixed term)

Location : Elstree Warehouse, WD6 3SF

About us :

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

About the role :

An opportunity has arisen for a Laboratory Services - Project Manager based at our office in Elstree, with the opportunity to travel to our London sites.  This is a 12-month fixed term, full time post (40 hours per week).

The successful candidates will be responsible for developing comprehensive project plans, ensuring resource availability and budget allocation. Defining the scope of the project and ensuring project phases and targets are completed to schedule and on budget :

A.      Ensure successful management and delegation of projects to all members of the project team.

B.      Ensure projects are implemented, monitored, managed, and reported against.

C.      Identify and implement new project streams; review budget and assess profitability.

D.      Meeting budgetary objectives and adjusting as required.

E.       Provide daily, weekly and monthly progress reports on project statuses.

F.       Ensure open and effective communication with all senior management and stakeholders (internal and external).

G.      Create relationships between trusts, estates teams, external contractors / suppliers, and other external parties.

Please see the job description for more information regarding this role.

At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including :

• Training and development opportunities  – supporting professional development
• Annual performance related salary review
• No banding restrictions :
• As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling
• Discounted gym membership  – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan  – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement  – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance  – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme  – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme  – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox  – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme –  company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance  -  23 days
• Flexible working hours  – 40 hours standard working week