Job vacancy: NHS PeoplePortal Programme Manager, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Dartford

Job summary

Main area: Human Resources
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: 18 months (fixed term contract)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 252-8322925

Employer: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Darent Valley Hospital
Town: Dartford
Salary: £59,798 - £67,020 per annum inclusive of allowances
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/10/2026 23:59

NHS PeoplePortal Programme Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities: -

Local Project Leadership

Provide senior leadership and overall project management for the organisation's NHS PeoplePortal implementation.

Responsible for translating the national NHS PeoplePortal programme requirements into a clear, achievable and appropriately resourced local implementation plan.

Establish and maintain effective project governance, ensuring appropriate senior oversight, decision-making and escalation.

Lead the local implementation team and coordinate contributions from technical, operational, HR, communications, learning and other specialist colleagues.

Ensure that all implementation workstreams and domain activities are aligned, sequenced and delivered against agreed milestones.

Provide visible leadership and delivery momentum throughout the implementation lifecycle.

Monitor delivery against scope, milestones, quality and expected outcomes, taking corrective action where required.

Ensure that the organisation is appropriately prepared for each implementation stage and ultimately for go-live.

Provide senior-level advice and assurance to organisational leadership on implementation progress, risks and readiness.

Manage project team, including recruitment, objective setting, appraisals etc.

Please see attached job description for further information.

Person specification

Education and Training

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters degree level in a relevant subject of equivalent experience
Project and/or Programme management office qualification, PRINCE 2, MSP or equivalent experience
Evidence of Continued professional development

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent strategic and operational project management skills.
Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to operate effectively without direct authority.
Strong understanding of digital implementation and organisational change.
Ability to understand complex technical issues and translate them into organisational impacts, risks and decisions.
Excellent communication, facilitation and negotiation skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
Ability to constructively challenge senior stakeholders and delivery partners.
Strong governance, assurance and reporting skills.

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant senior project or programme management experience within a complex organisation.
Demonstrable experience of leading major digital, technology-enabled or organisational change implementations.
Strong understanding and utilisation of Oracle Fusion or NHS ESR
Experience of managing complex projects across multiple workstreams, stakeholders and organisational boundaries.
Experience of providing senior-level reporting, assurance and recommendations to governance forums.
Strong experience of risk, issue, dependency and change management.
Experience of leading or overseeing technical implementation, system testing and/or data migration.
Experience of leading stakeholder engagement, communications, training and organisational readiness activity.
Experience of working with national programmes, shared services, external suppliers or multiple delivery partners.
Demonstrable experience of delivering complex projects to challenging timescales.

Desirable criteria

Significant NHS experience, particularly within a complex provider or system environment.
Experience of working across multiple NHS organisations or regional/national programmes.

Our staff are our most valuable asset. We are committed to making staff feel appreciated, supported and included in the Trust’s successes. Our mission is to be an outstanding place to work providing the very best care for our patients and excellent career opportunities for our staff. Everything we do is guided by our core values and behaviours, identified by our staff and embedded throughout the organisation.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement

We have the highest CQC rating of all Acute NHS Trusts in Kent and Medway (Good). The CQC highlighted that managers promoted a positive culture that supported, valued staff and created a sense of common purpose based upon shared values.

The Trust is a great place to work, stay, develop a career and enjoy a healthy work life balance. We have made and are delivering on a wide range of commitments to staff; health and wellbeing; equality; diversity and inclusion; access to education and career development. During 2020 we sett up quality councils, driven by our staff to create a culture of shared governance and quality improvement.

We have a strong focus on innovation and improvement. Part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) ‘Healthcare Alliance’ we are introducing new models of care to improve clinical outcomes for patients. Our association with GSTT also gives staff wishing to develop their skills excellent opportunities to work across numerous specialities.

As our local population increases, our services and skills are expanding and adapting to meet demand. We are continuously looking at best practice models to enhance and improve the services we offer.

The Trust provides services at Darent Valley Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, for a local population of over 500,000 people.

If you would like to be part of our innovative and forward thinking team putting patients at the centre of all we do, we invite you to #joinourfamily.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please note this vacancy may close earlier than stated to aid efficient processing of applications. To ensure your application will be considered please submit it at your earliest convenience. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

Please note, that due to the limited number of car parking spaces, car parking permits will be allocated subject to compliance with the Trusts eligibility criteria and availability of spaces. Permit holders are not guaranteed a car parking space.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is a smoke free organisation. To improve public health smoking or vaping is not permitted anywhere on the hospital site.