Project Manager - Business Development

Location: Worthing - Vacancy type: Full Time/Permanent - Pay: Grade 8 (£52,912-£55,140, DOE) - Contract: Pro rata for part time roles - Hours: 37.5 per week - Application deadline: Sunday, 25 January 2026.

About the role

The Project Manager will be responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget. This role requires strong leadership, the ability to think commercially and work autonomously, and excellent communication skills to manage cross functional teams and ensure successful project outcomes.

This is an exciting role that joins the organisation during a time of change. The role will be varied and an appetite to "get stuck in" will be needed.

You'll be

• An experienced project manager who is able to, and enjoys, working autonomously.
• Commercially motivated with the ability to take business development ideas and turn them into practical solutions.
• Able to build effective and open working relationships with colleagues across the organization.
• Experienced in strategic planning.
• Have strong transferable experience but may be from a range of backgrounds - retail, healthcare, commercial.
• Motivated by driving through projects, being accountable for change, and seeing tangible results.

The anticipated interview date for this post is 3 February 2026.

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree House is the children's hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people centric organisation like ours.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days' annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.