Programme Director

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Programme Director to support the Children's Hospital Programme. This crucial role involves ensuring coherence in a complex programme, working collaboratively with various teams. The ideal candidate should have significant experience in delivering major programmes, strong leadership skills, and the ability to influence staff at all levels. The role offers an opportunity to drive strategic development and improve children's health services across south east London.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in delivering major programmes.
• Extensive experience influencing diverse staff and stakeholders.
• Ability to lead teams in strategic direction and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Children's Hospital Programme within a complex programme.
• Work collaboratively within a matrix team.
• Ensure coherence across sub-programmes and major initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Financial literacy

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Programme Director

The closing date is 30 December 2025

The Children's Hospital Programme (CHP) has been established to ensure that Evelina London continues to deliver the Trust's ambition to be a provider of a comprehensive range of children's services to south east London and beyond. Huge progress has been made over the past decade, with new services set up, many existing services extended to ensure full 24/7 cover and a wide range of new clinical and research facilities opened.

Building on the Guy's and St Thomas' Trust merger with the Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust in 2021, as well as NHS England's decision for the Evelina London to provide very specialist cancer services through the Children's Cancer Principal Treatment Centre, the Children's Hospital Programme will be instrumental in integrating and growing specialist services driven by national clinical standards and the growing volume and complexity of children's needs. This includes co-locating congenital heart disease and cancer services with other specialist services for children. Recognising the general growth of demand for children's clinical services and the increasing specialisations required, the CHP will be one of service development, reconfiguration and transformation across our hospital sites, with significant enabling capital investments.

The CHP has been established as a Major Programme within the Trust, and involves substantial transformational change and capital investment. The programme is currently preparing to deliver a Business Case in 2026.

Main duties of the job

The Programme Director is a senior member of the Children's Hospital Programme Team and reports directly to the Evelina London Director of Major Programmes.

This is a key role in supporting the realisation of our ambitious strategic vision for the Children's Hospital Programme. The post holder will work as part of a matrix team within and outside the organisation to deliver this complex programme, ensuring coherence and co-ordination across sub-programmes, other major programmes and initiatives.

Partnership working will be essential to fulfil the breadth of this portfolio, with the post-holder required to work as part of a multi-professional matrix structure with estates, facilities, finance, programme and project, and fundraising colleagues involved in delivering this programme. They will be a role model for effective collaboration.

This role provides additional programme capacity at a time of massive change and major programme delivery.

About us

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With almost 4,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas'. Every year, the number of women, children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world. As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children.

Find out more at www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk. Watch our short film to see inside our children's hospital.

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details about the duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant experience and evidence of successfully delivering major programmes of similar size and complexity
• Extensive experience influencing staff at all levels to ensure that programme or project objectives are owned by all members of the team, including users and stakeholders. Substantial evidence of the ability to involve teams in analysis of situation and solution development; persuade teams to take on new ways of working and to constructively challenge the status quo

Knowledge

• Financially literate with the ability to review, challenge and effectively utilise financial information for decision making and good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation. Has proven ability to drive value for money through good commercial and contract management skills

Skills

• Ability to lead change with and through the Trust's senior teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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