Programme Manager

NHS England; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England seeks a capable professional to help transition digital products into ongoing support within the Cyber Operations landscape. The role focuses on reducing cyber risk and building public confidence while coordinating across delivery strands and senior management.

Key duties include governance, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring deliverables are fit for business-as-usual support. A strong emphasis on security clearance and UK residency is required.

Qualifications

• SC clearance required at minimum.
• UK residency of 5 years for National Security Vetting.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the end-to-end transition from products into support.
• Ensure products have undergone appropriate review and met transition criteria.
• Ensure programme governance is adhered to.
• Support strands through key implementation and transition activities.
• Manage senior stakeholders.

Job description

Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England's cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate's purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS. The Cyber Operations sub-directorate consists of four operational areas:

• Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU & SIO)
• Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU)
• Cyber Improvement Programme
• Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)

Working in the Cyber Improvement Programme - this role works across different delivery strands and co-ordinates with a range of teams and senior management to oversee the transition of products from programme delivery into business as usual support. The Cyber Improvement Programme aims to reduce cyber risk across the NHS and build public confidence in the handling of their private data. This is key to supporting neighbourhood models of care. This involves ensuring alignment with programme governance, planning and reporting, highlighting and progressing risks and issues, and strong stakeholder management skills amongst others. The role oversees and co-ordinates the delivery strands and ensures that each of their final deliverables are in a fit state, have been communicated to all appropriate stakeholders, and the benefits have been defined before they are accepted into Business As Usual support.

Main duties include:

• Leading on the end to end transition from products into support
• Ensuring that products have been through appropriate review and met expected criteria for transition
• Ensuring that programme governance is adhered to
• Supporting individual strands through key implementation and transition activities
• Managing senior stakeholders

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS. Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms - enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services. In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department. If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices. Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. We cannot offer visa sponsorship for external candidates.

Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet: All NHS England personnel must hold Security Clearance (SC) level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered.