Senior Programme Manager

The Product and Platforms Directorate designs, builds and runs the core infrastructure that supports digital health and care services across the UK.

We are recruiting aSenior Programme Manager (Band 8c)to lead delivery of theSingle Unique Identifier (SUI)and related services within the Demographics Platforms domain.

You will lead complex, high-profile programmes end-to-end. You will ensure delivery is aligned to NHS England priorities, governance, and policy.

You will combine strong delivery leadership with clear governance and assurance. You will ensure outcomes, benefits and progress are well defined, measured and achieved.

The Demographics and GP Registration service sits within Product and Platforms, part of the Transformation Directorate in NHS England

We lead the development of a future, tech-enabled, person-centred health and care system by:

Job description

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to master's level or equivalent years' experience
• Relevant Programme and Project Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in project and programme management, delivering complex initiatives and achieving measurable outcomes
• Strong experience of leading process analysis and improvement across project, programme, and portfolio environments, driving efficiency and better delivery outcomes
• The ability to deliver programme management functions, including establishment of effective management controls, governance, assurance, strategic planning and analysing, reporting and decision making

Experience of developing business cases and other investment justification

Knowledge

Essential

• Working knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and experience applying them in delivery environments.

About the employer

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 any vacancies.