Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-EC2075-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE office
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £112,782 - £129,783 per annum (Exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Programme Integration
NHS AfC: Band 9
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
Job overview
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’re delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We’re looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations.
Main duties of the job
You will support the leadership and delivery of the Integration workstream, helping drive co-ordination across complex programme activities to support delivery of the New Hospital Programme.
The role will:
• Lead and manage complex programme integration activity to support delivery of programme objectives.
• Work closely with senior leadership to support the development and delivery of the programme’s integrated plan.
• Provide leadership and oversight to ensure alignment across programme workstreams and delivery partners.
• Support engagement with internal and external stakeholders to ensure coordinated delivery across multiple disciplines.
• The post holder will support and deputise for the Integration Director where required.
The role requires significant experience operating within large-scale and complex programmes, ideally within infrastructure, capital programmes, government or similarly complex environments. Experience within healthcare systems would be beneficial but is not essential.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For more information on the NHP programme
Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in organisational leadership and delivering successful Major Programmes
- Experience of working across multiple healthcare systems
- Experience of advising on major programmes
- Experience of working across multiple specialisms, disciplines and complexity of programmes
- 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.
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- Professional qualification or equivalent experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a political environment
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
- Strong commercial awareness and skills.
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chloe Lincoln_Todd
- Job title
- Resourcing Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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