Job vacancy: Programme Manager, Provide CIC, England

Job summary

Main area: Programme Manager
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (nil)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE4222

Employer: Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS
Site: Provide CIC
Town: England
Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/08/2026 23:59

Programme Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Project Management

Lead the development and delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner.
Ensure the flexibility of the project if required to meet conflicting/changing requirements.
Be responsible for the planning and organisation of numerous events/meetings. Ensuring communication tools are used to their maximum value for circulating the minutes, agenda and presentations in a timely manner and take accurate notes and action points to record the meeting where required.
Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and organisations at all levels.
Consider the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business. Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagement and sponsorship within the wider NHS as required.
Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of the organisation.

Operational

To be responsible for the delivery of day-to-day activities and projects.
To manage and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects.
To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables
Adopt a pro-active approach to risk management including the systematic identification, assessment, and management of risk.
Develop, plan and organise efficiency schemes and deliver pathway changes and savings associated with them.
Manage change effectively and creatively, respond to complex and changing situations by use of creative problem solving and bring new thinking, delivery mechanisms and solutions to the organisations.

Financial and Physical Resources

Identify products, equipment, services, and facilities for assigned activities, achieving stakeholder buy in as required. Placing order and signing invoices, keeping mindful of budget limitations.
Develop transformation models that ensure value for money and are based on best practice and promote excellence.
Accountable for managing budgets associated resources and compliance with standing financial instructions and schemes of delegation.
Develop and take responsibility for delivering of assigned efficiency programmes.
Budget holder for assigned function/team

Staff Management

Line management of employees within portfolio
Responsible for recruitment when appropriate.
Responsible for undertaking appraisal and personal development including progressing any disciplinary or capability issues.
Forge close positive working relationships
Support, motivate and develop people within the teams.
Manage third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within budget.

Person specification

essential

Essential criteria

evidence of previous large scale programme management
project management qualifications

essential

Essential criteria

ability to drive and access to transport
Comfortable working across the country

FURTHER INFORMATION:

How will we contact you?

All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via [email protected]
If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

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Work Trials

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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant:

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.