Health Service Readiness Lead (Remote, UK)

Experis UK; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis UK in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Deputy Service Lead to support delivery, readiness, and development of a critical public health service capable of scalable responses during outbreaks and health incidents.

You'll work closely with service leadership to coordinate preparedness, manage delivery initiatives, and ensure services mobilise effectively. Healthcare experience is essential, spanning public health, health protection, or NHS-related programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, public health, health protection, or healthcare technology environments.
• Strong governance, program delivery, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate policy objectives into practical service requirements.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams in complex public sector programmes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate operational priorities, activities, dependencies, and delivery plans across multiple teams.
• Develop and maintain operational readiness, mobilisation, and preparedness plans.
• Support the service roadmap delivery aligned with policy, operational, and user requirements.
• Define requirements and support commissioning of business and technical services.
• Manage projects including budgets, milestones, risks, dependencies, and reporting.
• Produce business case inputs, briefing papers, recommendations, and decision support materials for senior stakeholders.
• Identify and escalate risks, issues, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Work with operational, policy, clinical, technical, and programme teams to drive outcomes.
• Strong project, programme, and operational delivery experience within complex public sector or healthcare environments.
• Experience in healthcare, public health, health security, healthcare operations, healthcare technology, or NHS-related programmes.
• Experience supporting operational readiness, service mobilisation, or emergency preparedness activities.
• Experience coordinating public health programmes, health security, and business continuity environments.

Job description

Experis UK in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Deputy Service Lead to support delivery, readiness, and development of a critical public health service capable of scalable responses during outbreaks and health incidents.

You'll work closely with service leadership to coordinate preparedness, manage delivery initiatives, and ensure services mobilise effectively. Healthcare experience is essential, spanning public health, health protection, or NHS-related programmes.