Job summary
- Main area
- PMO
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-EC4226-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHS England Office
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Head of PMO client
NHS AfC: Band 8d
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
The role is ideal for someone looking to combine client management with strong project management skills, enabling the successful delivery against sponsor requirements and approved business cases.
Key aspects of this role include:
- Acts as the key client link with the PMO, providing strategic direction and oversight, and managing delivery of outputs from the programme’s delivery partner
- Establishes and continuously improves governance, assurance, planning, controls, reporting, and performance/benefits frameworks
- Provides executive decision support to the Programme Operations Director and COO
- Ensures high‑quality, timely, insight‑rich information flows to underpin governance and stakeholder confidence.
It interfaces closely with the Sponsor Team and Delivery Teams, acting as the “bridge” to assure that strategic intent is translated into delivery and that risks, issues and dependencies are actively
Working for our organisation
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.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven leadership experience in complex / public sector environments, including establishing and leading PMO / controls functions on major programmes
- Expertise in programme planning, scheduling, benefits management and project controls (risk/issue/dependency/change)
- Experience providing board level reporting/analysis and translating strategy into delivery
- Understanding of NHS governance and policy context and the interface with DHSC/NHSE and provider/commissioner organisations
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid working knowledge of financial process requirements
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership, vision and strategic thinking; able to operate across strategic and operational horizons and make sound judgements under ambiguity
- Highly developed communication and influencing skills
- Analytical and quantitative skills to interrogate performance, schedule, risk and financial data and convert into insights/actions
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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