Full job descriptionWe’re looking for an experienced HR Project Manager to support a major workforce transformation programme in the health sector. This is a hands-on delivery role at the heart of significant change: you’ll be the person who plans, runs and lands formal consultations and change processes properly, supporting leaders and staff through every stage.
This is not a generic HR projects role. It suits someone who has personally delivered consultations and organisational change, understands how it feels on the ground, and knows what good looks like when the stakes are high for patients, services and the people who deliver them.
What you’ll be doing
• Planning and delivering formal workforce consultations, both collective and individual - preparing consultation documents, timelines, FAQs and supporting materials
• Advising and coaching managers through consultation meetings, staff briefings and difficult conversations, and being a visible, steady presence during change
• Leading change-management activity end to end: impact assessments, transition planning, redeployment support and clear employee communications
• Working with trade unions, staff-side representatives and employee forums to keep consultation constructive, compliant and well documented
• Supporting the design and implementation of new structures, roles and ways of working as part of the wider transformation programme
• Keeping the programme on track - project plans, risk and issue logs, decision records and progress reporting to senior stakeholders
• Managing sensitive employee relations issues arising from change, including redundancy and redeployment processes, with care and sound judgement
About you
• Proven, hands-on experience of delivering workforce consultations and change programmes - you’ve written the documents, run the meetings and managed the timeline yourself
• Experience of the NHS or wider health sector (or a similarly complex, unionised public-sector environment) is strongly preferred
• A solid working knowledge of employment law as it applies to organisational change, including collective and individual consultation requirements
• Confident advising senior clinical and operational leaders, and credible with trade unions and staff-side representatives
• Practical and delivery-focused: comfortable rolling your sleeves up rather than advising from a distance
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce clear, accurate documentation under pressure
• Resilient, organised and discreet, with the judgement to handle sensitive information appropriately