Programme Support Manager

Integrated Care System; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A health and care organisation in Bradford is seeking a Programme Support Manager to coordinate the Healthy Working Life Programme. This role involves managing project documentation, monitoring risks, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure programme success. The ideal candidate has a degree in a related field, strong project management experience, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a hybrid working model, combining office and home work.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Employee support initiatives

Qualifications

• Practical experience managing multiple successful projects with defined frameworks.
• Ability to present complex information clearly to various audiences.
• Experience with budget management and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the Healthy Working Life Programme across multiple health interventions.
• Support smooth programme functioning through tracking and reporting.
• Liaise with various stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.

Skills

Project management

Organisational skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Data analysis

Education

Degree in programme/project management or related field

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Go back NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Programme Support Manager

The closing date is 18 August 2025

Please note the location is White Rose House WF1 1LT

Healthy Working Life Programme (West Yorkshire) - Wakefield Place post. The post will end on 31 March 2026.

Are you driven by purpose and thrive on making things happen?

Step into a pivotal role where your organisational skills and systems thinking will support Wakefield's Healthy Working Life Programme, a place-based initiative funded by NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) health and growth accelerator programme funding.

As Programme Support Manager, you will sit in the Strategy and Partnerships Directorate and report to the Place programme lead. You will support the coordination and mobilisation of over the place-based interventions.

You will work closely with senior programme managers, commissioners, delivery partners (including NHS trusts, local authority and VCSE providers), and system leads in BI, contracts, and IG. Your key responsibilities include managing programme documentation, monitoring risks and issues, drafting papers, coordinating stakeholder meetings, and managing progress trackers. This role offers hybrid working with a Wakefield base.

Ideally, you are a detail-focused, proactive organiser with strong stakeholder skills. You will enjoy working in complex, multi-partner settings and making a real difference to health-driven economic participation across our communities.

Expected Shortlisting Date

18/08/2025

Planned Interview Date

26/08/2025

Main duties of the job

As Programme Support Manager, you will play a vital role in coordinating the Healthy Working Life Programme, a system-wide initiative designed to reduce economic inactivity due to ill health. This is a fast-paced, hands-on project management role, supporting the delivery and mobilisation of over a dozen health, prevention, and employment-based interventions across Wakefield.

Reporting to the Strategic Programmes and Health Inequalities Lead (Place Lead), you will work alongside intervention leads, delivery partners, finance, BI and analytics, local authority, VCSE providers, and NHS organisations. You will support smooth programme functioning by tracking actions, managing programme governance, preparing briefing materials, coordinating meetings, and ensuring timely reporting and risk oversight.

You will also liaise with regional colleagues and contribute to the oversight of programme delivery across all three pillars. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on collaboration, is highly organised, and enjoys making complex programmes run smoothly. You will be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team with a shared commitment to delivering lasting change for communities.

About us

NHS West Yorkshire ICB works to improve population health and reduce inequalities, addressing diverse community needs. As part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, we collaborate with local councils, health providers, and community organisations.

We value diversity as a strength that enhances creativity and patient outcomes. Committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace, we prioritise wellbeing and encourage applications from all areas of the community who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristics.

We support Carers with a Carer-friendly environment and a working Carer passport. As a Mindful Employer, we support employees and applicants with mental health conditions. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee interviews for suitable applicants meeting the essential criteria. Please let us know of any required adjustments.

Lease cars are a benefit offered by the organisation subject to eligibility. Fleet Solutions provides these cars, and any fleet cars will transfer (novate) through them. The organisation cannot transfer cars from other lease providers that Fleet Solutions will not novate with.

Note: This advert may close early due to high application volume, or be paused or withdrawn in line with our policies if an applicant at risk or on pay protection applies.

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

As Programme Support Manager, you will support the successful delivery of the Wakefield Work and Health Economic Accelerator Programme, working across funded interventions led by programme/commissioning leads across the Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership. This role will coordinate project activity, support alignment across intervention areas and across all accelerator pillars, and contribute to programme development and evaluation.

The role will support the development of a Provider Collaborative Community of Practice (CoP) to connect interventions, encourage shared learning, and maximise programme impact.

You will support the Place Programme Lead to bring together and support intervention leads across all three pillars of work to support Wakefield in achieving its outcomes of reducing economic inactivity.

The Programme Support Manager will require significant involvement with stakeholders from a wide range of services including at the executive level (e.g., West Yorkshire delivery team) and interaction with other place leads. Internally, with the Director of Strategy and Partnerships, place commissioning leads, provider leads, local authorities, VCSE, hospital Trust, BI, and evaluation leads.

In addition, this post will be responsible for maintaining excellent project management processes to support the overall monitoring and coordination of the programmes within the Wakefield Economic Accelerator Programme.

You will have practical project management experience or demonstrable transferable project management skills. The role also involves contributing to other work areas as required, where delivery responsibilities may be outside your remit; therefore, excellent communication and negotiation skills are essential to influence stakeholders across various organisations.

This work will also require connecting the work into the wider Trailblazer and Pathfinder initiatives across the district, working with DWP and WYCA colleagues.

We are piloting a hybrid working model where staff work some of their time in the office and the remainder from home, so the ability to work independently and manage complex deadlines and workstreams is key to this role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Practical experience managing multiple successful projects, including developing complex project management frameworks, monitoring, and review processes.
• Performance management, including monitoring delivery to timescales.
• Ability to work within tight deadlines and with differing priorities.
• Ability to present complex information, including data and statistics, clearly and accurately to various audiences.
• Experience of budget management and forecasting or familiarity with project budget processes.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in programme management, project management, workforce planning, workforce development, or operational management.
• Knowledge and experience of project management tools, techniques, and methodology.
• Qualified as an MSP or Prince2 practitioner or equivalent professional experience.
• Knowledge of health issues and systemic factors contributing to economic inactivity.

Other Criteria

• Drive and energy; commitment to personal, staff, and organisational development.
• Self-confident and emotionally resilient.
• Flexible and enthusiastic.
• Seeks and appropriately uses professional support.

Skills and Behaviours

• Ability to work with ambiguity and think on your feet.
• Influence and negotiation skills to achieve results with stakeholders.
• Ability to gain confidence and credibility across professionals.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex facts or situations.

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board