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Senior Programme Manager - Occupant Safety

NHS England

Nationally, SE1 8UGView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£79,504 to £91,609

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

2 November 2026

12 days left

Job description

The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it's a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We'r...

We are seeking an experienced Senior Programme Manager to play a pivotal role in delivering the New Hospital Programme's strategic objectives.

Working across a complex portfolio of projects and business change activities, you will provide leadership and coordination across programme teams and integration workstreams, ensuring successful delivery of key outcomes. You will be responsible for driving robust governance, assurance, performance monitoring, risk management and organisational readiness for change, with a strong focus on safety, compliance and continuous improvement.

The role will also oversee the coordination and assurance of Occupant Safety across programmes, ensuring risks are effectively managed and programme objectives are delivered safely and efficiently.

Significant experience managing large-scale programmes and complex portfolios.
Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
Experience in governance, assurance, risk management and performance reporting.
A track record of delivering business change and organisational transformation.
Knowledge of safety, compliance and programme management best practice.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025,the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Qualifications

Essential: - Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Desirable: - Professional qualification or equivalent experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects

Experience

Essential

Experience in organisational leadership and delivering successful Major Programmes
Experience of working across multiple healthcare systems
Experience of working at a senior level in a complex environment, managing multiple transformation projects with a range of stakeholders
Experience of leading and delivering large scale transformational change and the ability to convey a compelling and engaging vision of change
Experience of translating strategy into delivery through plans, programmes, people and culture.
Knowledge and application of risk awareness and management
Knowledge of commissioning practices and models
Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy
Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements

Skills

Essential

Ability to work positively with stakeholders to achieve outcomes and deliver change through people
Highly developed interpersonal, advocacy and communication skills to be able to work effectively with individuals and a range of stakeholders
Strong commercial awareness and skills
Strong influencing and negotiation skills
Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical)