Job vacancy: Programme Manager MHED and NMHC, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Fulbourn

Job summary

Main area: Programme Manager
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 310-MCORP-8221549

Employer: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Elizabeth House
Town: Fulbourn
Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/09/2026 23:59

Programme Manager MHED and NMHC

Band 8b

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Establish systems and processes to maintain oversight of and ensure successful delivery of programme activity.
• Contribute complex programme management expert knowledge and experience in guiding others through the challenges of culture change and complex stakeholder management.
• Work with the SRO and other relevant stakeholders to define measures and gain business buy in for adoption of deliverables.
• Work in partnership with clinical leads to form and sustain effective clinical collaboration for the workstreams.
• Ensure strategic programme benefits are defined, agreed, accepted and can be tracked.
• Demonstrate effective governance of strategic programme risk and issue management to ensure that risks to delivery and benefit realisation are understood and mitigated or accepted.
• Responsible for ensuring there is visibility of all projects within the programme and work in partnership with the directorate triumvirate leadership teams, and Head of Improvement to monitor delivery of the trust wide portfolio of programmes.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Post Graduate Degree or Equivalent Management Qualification
Formal Programme and/or Project management training and experience

Desirable criteria

Relevant Masters level qualification in field of health or social care.

Experience

Essential criteria

Worked in complex and multi-professional organisation.
Experience in managing complex programmes and projects through to delivery
Experience of programme management in health/social care
Experienced in reviewing and interpreting complex financial and analytical information to support the development of strategic plans
Experience of collaborative with a range of stakeholders

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in partnership with clinical leaders.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

Ability to translate strategic direction into achievable objectives and plans.
Highly developed analytical, problem solving and judgement skills e.g. ability to receive, interpret and communicate complex data which requires analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
Ability to role model values and standards of the organisation
Comfortable dealing with financial information, including a working knowledge of NHS financial processes and involvement in budget setting.
Skilled communicator and negotiator - provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
Children and young people’s mental health services;
Children’s community services in Peterborough;
Social care;
Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.