NHS England

Assistant Director of Programmes

Company
Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/3/2025
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 4 Operational Areas

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

The Cyber Improvement Programme (CIP) aims to deliver cyber improvements that provide long-term foundational change towards sustainable cyber risk management across the health and social care system, working towards the vision of creating a health and care sector that is resilient to cyber-attack, improving the safety of patients and service users through good cyber security.

Responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for the delivery of multiple projects/programmes/workstreams within the Cyber Improvement Programme with a specific focus on change management and accountability and responsibility for:

  • The delivery of projects and programmes relating to system change, working with colleagues and subject matter experts to scope, plan design and deliver those across multiple organisations.
  • The delivery of the whole lifecycle of allocated programmes of work containing multiple projects, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, acting as a point of escalation for project and programme managers within the team.
  • The delivery of complex organisational change programmes and facilitating the uptake of initiatives that support excellence and embedding of cyber security across the health and care system.
  • Stakeholder engagement and communications engaging on complex issues, strategy and policy with stakeholders at all levels including programme reporting to stakeholders and senior NHS England and Department of Health colleagues.
  • Forging close working relationships across the organisation and beyond to facilitate an effective matrix management approach to delivery of projects and programmes of work to ensure integration at all levels.

The NHS England Board Have Set Out The Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By

  • Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
  • Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
  • Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
  • Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
  • Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Neelam Uraon Job title: Programme Director Email address: [email protected]
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