Deputy Director of Programme Integration
Job Description
Job summary
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:o Lead and manage complex programme integration activity to support delivery of programme objectives.o Work closely with senior leadership to support the development and delivery of the programme's integrated plan.o Provide leadership and oversight to ensure alignment across programme workstreams and delivery partners.o Support engagement with internal and external stakeholders to ensure coordinated delivery across multiple disciplines.o 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.
About us
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 announcedthat 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.
Job 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
Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date due to the high volume of applications received.
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
- 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
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent 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
Skills
Essential
- 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 details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
Any NHSE office
National
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)
