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Programme Director - Transforming People Services

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An established NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly experienced Programme Director to lead one of the most significant workforce transformation programmes across London. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will provide strategic oversight, governance, and assurance for the Transforming People Services (TPS) programme across the region. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring the programme is delivery-ready, compliant, and aligned with national expectations, working closely with senior stakeholders across the NHS landscape.

Job Responsibility:

  • Programme Leadership & Oversight: Provide senior leadership across the London TPS programme, ensuring pace, control, and direction
  • Act as the accountable lead for regional delivery, reporting into national governance structures
  • Ensure alignment with national priorities, milestones, and dependencies
  • Governance, Assurance & Control: Establish and maintain robust programme governance and oversight frameworks
  • Lead on RAID management (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies)
  • Coordinate and respond to national assurance processes
  • Programme Documentation Ownership: Take full ownership of programme documentation, ensuring quality and compliance, including: Programme Initiation Documentation (PID), Target Operating Model (TOM), Strategic Workforce Plan, Business Case and supporting evidence, Transformation roadmaps and implementation plans, Financial models and benefits realisation plans, Governance papers and senior stakeholder briefings
  • Delivery Oversight: Provide strategic oversight across service design, digital, people & change, and programme management
  • Hold workstream leads and partners accountable for delivery and quality
  • Ensure readiness for phased implementation across the region
  • Stakeholder & System Leadership: Engage with national TPS teams, providers, and system leaders
  • Support CEOs, executives, and People leaders across organisations
  • Ensure effective engagement with staff-side and impacted stakeholders
  • Financial & Benefits Oversight: Oversee programme funding, investment, and resource planning
  • Ensure benefits are defined, tracked, and aligned to national frameworks
  • Drive value for money and transparency

Requirements:

  • Extensive senior leadership experience delivering large-scale, complex transformation programmes
  • NHS experience in similar transformation projects is essential
  • Strong expertise in programme governance, assurance, and business case development
  • Experience in shared services, operating model design, or workforce transformation
  • Proven ability to operate at Board and Executive level across multiple organisations
  • Excellent written and documentation skills, with experience owning complex programme artefacts
  • NHS experience is highly desirable
What we offer:
  • Lead a high-profile, London-wide transformation programme
  • Operate at senior system level across multiple NHS organisations
  • Influence national workforce transformation strategy
  • Immediate start with a competitive day rate

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Job Posted:
May 05, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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