Programme Manager

NHS Blood and Transplant; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

NHS Blood and Transplant is seeking a Programme Manager to lead complex programmes that support our strategic priorities and improve outcomes for donors, patients and colleagues. You’ll turn ambitious goals into clear plans, coordinating people, resources and expertise in a fast-moving environment.

This national role will involve travel across England, with a hybrid working option and a base location to be confirmed.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-profile programmes from planning through to delivery, helping NHSBT achieve strategic goals that save and improve lives.
• Shape clear delivery plans, governance arrangements and resources so that programmes achieve their outcomes, benefits and quality standards.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to build support, influence decisions and keep programmes moving forward.
• Create visibility and confidence in delivery by monitoring progress, managing risks and resolving complex challenges.
• Lead benefits realisation activities, ensuring programme investment delivers measurable value for NHSBT, donors and patients.
• Support business readiness and change activities so that new ways of working are adopted successfully.
• Manage programme budgets and resources responsibly, ensuring effective use of public funds.
• Lead, coach and develop multi-disciplinary teams, creating an environment where people can learn, contribute and perform at their best.

Job description

As a Programme Manager at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you'll lead complex programmes that help deliver our strategic priorities and make a lasting difference for donors, patients and colleagues. You'll turn ambitious goals into clear plans, bringing together people, resources and expertise to deliver meaningful outcomes and measurable benefits. Working with senior stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams, you'll provide leadership, direction and confidence in environments that can be complex and fast moving. This is an opportunity to contribute to work with real purpose, while using your expertise to drive change, improve services and help NHSBT continue saving and improving lives. Based on the NHSBT talent brand guidance, this role offers the chance to contribute, learn and progress while making a genuine impact., This is a national role, requiring travel across England based on business needs. The role offers a hybrid working option. You will be assigned a base location, which could be one of the NHSBT main centres or blood centres. The exact location will be confirmed after the final interview and mutually agreed upon with the line manager during the verbal offer stage., In this role you will be responsible for managing programmes or portfolios of projects from inception through to completion within the Clinical Services Directorate.,

• Lead high-profile programmes from planning through to delivery, helping NHSBT achieve strategic goals that save and improve lives.
• Shape clear delivery plans, governance arrangements and resources so that programmes achieve their outcomes, benefits and quality standards.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to build support, influence decisions and keep programmes moving forward.
• Create visibility and confidence in delivery by monitoring progress, managing risks and resolving complex challenges.
• Lead benefits realisation activities, ensuring programme investment delivers measurable value for NHSBT, donors and patients.
• Support business readiness and change activities so that new ways of working are adopted successfully.
• Manage programme budgets and resources responsibly, ensuring effective use of public funds.
• Lead, coach and develop multi-disciplinary teams, creating an environment where people can learn, contribute and perform at their best.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.