Greenwich INT Senior Programme Manager

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 73,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic leader to oversee the Greenwich Integrated Neighbourhoods programme. You will provide coherent programme oversight, manage interdependencies across workstreams and report to SROs and boards.

The role anchors on strong leadership, change management and innovation within a broad NHS partnership. The post requires robust governance, risk management and multi-stakeholder engagement to deliver new care models, while coordinating across partner

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience; PRINCE2/ MSP Practitioner training.
• 7 years’ senior-level experience in clinical, care or management roles.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver significant transformation programmes and projects for Greenwich Integrated Neighbourhoods.
• Manage the whole lifecycle of the neighbourhood programme with governance, risks and issues management.
• Create and develop an overarching programme management framework and timelines.
• Coordinate programme activity to meet milestones and maintain plans.
• Lead on implementation of new models with project management skills and stakeholder liaison.
• Provide line management and ensure resources are used within budget.

Skills

Communication & Stakeholder engagement

Organisational planning analysis

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent experience

PRINCE2 Practitioner

Job description

Main area 279 Integrator INT (L3) Grade Band 8b Contract 12 months (Fixed term and/or Secondment) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 277-8260795-CPH

Site The Woolwich Centre Town London Salary £72,719 - £83,505 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/2026 23:59

Job overview

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in supporting the implementation of neighbourhood health across Greenwich. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual with a strong track record of leadership, change management and innovation, and with significant experience of working across services for people of all ages.

The role will form part of a cross-system programme team, working alongside colleagues and workstream leads from across Health Greenwich Partnership organisations. The postholder will provide coherent programme oversight across these workstreams, ensuring effective coordination, management of interdependencies, and clear communication across the system. The role will be hosted by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and will be responsible to the Neighbourhood Health and Care Programme Senior Responsible Officers.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver significant transformation programmes and projects for Greenwich Integrated Neighbourhoods
• Manage the whole lifecycle of the neighbourhood programme, ensuring excellent governance throughout, including reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, escalating where necessary to SROs and boards
• Create and develop an overarching programme management framework and timelines for the completion of the identified work streams, ensuring these fit with the Integrator and organisational objectives.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide a wide range of reports as required to a wide variety of audiences, showing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations where a range of options may exist
• Responsible for the delivery of robust information systems to ensure that all programme and project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issue logs etc.)
• Support development of business cases and service models for bids, proposals, and developing new models of care as part of the integration agenda, working across partner organisations.
• Working to agreed objectives, work independently to co-ordinate programme activity (eg set up meetings, review of documentation etc) to ensure relevant people are involved in process and information is shared. Prepare programme and project plans to agreed methodology and organise workstreams to meet key milestones and maintain programme and project work plan reporting system to ensure all work stream activity is monitored.
• Lead on implementation of new models using expert project management skills to ensure delivery timescales are met. This will involve liaising with and advising people both within and outside the organisation, utilising negotiation skills to achieve deadlines.
• Co-ordinate and have oversight of the relevant identified work streams ensuring that they have a focus on the key tasks and have clear objectives and work plans, including interdependencies.
• To challenge, in a positive manner, current working practices, promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information; barriers to understanding; present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large and small groups.
• Analyse complex information across a range of inter-connected services and interpret information to identify solutions to complex issues to achieve milestones.
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of the required trust wide project infrastructure.
• Provide leadership at a trust project management level to ensure the objectives of work streams are met and that individual projects do not work in isolation.
• Maintain a project documentation log and library.
• Deliver core programme and project management processes including status reporting; risk and issue identification and resolution; benefits realisation and change control.
• Oversee the planning of meetings, workshops and wider stakeholder forums, overseeing changes and amendments as necessary. Ensure that invitations to participate in these are sent to those best placed to affect results.
• Implement and evaluate model/s with continual prototyping to ensure an effective and sustainable model. For example, recruitment of patients and users, reimbursement models, development of guides (to ensure learning can be shared)
• Analyse and respond to changes affecting the progress of project work. For example, flexing the project plan requirements to meet changes in deadlines.
• Be responsible for the progress and successful completion of project work through successful organisation of own workload, priorities and deadlines.
• Be required to work flexibly to accommodate timely submission of bids.
• Working with the wider team, ensure resources are used effectively and within budget.
• Co-ordinate, analyse and summarise complex and abundant information to and be able to present this via writing and production of documents and presentations.
• Set up appropriate systems to ensure reliance on external parties eg sub-contractors are signed off appropriately, and deadlines are met.
• Undertake research as necessary to support new models of working and ensure consistency across Southeast London (SEL)
• Provide line management undertaking all managerial responsibilities (recruitment, training, performance management and disciplinary action) for other project roles

Education/Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience and PRINCE2 Practitioner/ MSP Practitioner or alternative methodology trained

Experience

• 7 years’ experience at a senior position either clinical, care or management / programme/project roles

Skills

• Communication & Stakeholder engagement/ able to work at all levels/ coach others/ Reporting /presenting and producing information
• Strong organisation, planning, analysis, problem solving

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.