Job summary
- Main area
- Project Support
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment until 01/09/2026)
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
- Job ref
- 040-AC366-0925
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Cadoc's Hospital
- Town
- Caerleaon
- Salary
- £48,527 - £55,532 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Assistant Programme Manager
Band 7
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
Join Our Team as an Assistant Programme Manager
Are you ready to play a key role in driving the success of regional partnerships and shaping regional integration of health and care in Gwent? As an Assistant Programme Manager, you will be an essential member of the Gwent Regional Partnership Board Support Team (PMO) within the ABUHB Corporate Planning team. This is your chance to contribute to impactful projects and help streamline operations that make a real difference.
If you’re passionate about making an impact, excited to support a variety of key functions, and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the role for you. Get ready to be at the heart of strategic planning and help create better outcomes for communities across Gwent.
Our team is based in St Cadocs Hospital in Caerleon, and you will be working at our office and from home
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Programme Manager is a key member of the Gwent Regional Partnership Board (RPB) Support Team (PMO), part of the Planning Team. The team delivers a portfolio management function for the Gwent RPB. The RPB brings together the Health Board, local authorities and the third sector to meet the care and support needs of people in Gwent. It receives revenue funding of over £25 million per year across a range of funding streams to improve the wellbeing of key population groups, and to improve how health and care services are delivered.
The postholder will provide project and programme management leadership with a focus on on adults. The postholder will lead and oversee projects and programmes funded via the RPB’s revenue streams monitoring the set budget to ensure deliverables enhance services and can demonstrate difference made for the population of Gwent. This includes the planning of projects and programmes to achieve objectives, maximise benefits, and ensure funding drives service improvements.
In supporting successful project and programme management, the postholder will engage stakeholders to define priorities, scope and implementation processes. They will assist partners in developing performance indicators and measurable outcomes to ensure effective reporting. They will work closely with the Performance Analyst to manage a reporting function, maximise data use, and create performance dashboards.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac
This post is secondment for 12 months to meet the needs of the service.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable level of knowledge and experience.
- Knowledge and/or experience of partnership working.
- Knowledge and/or experience of project and programme management.
- Knowledge of relevant national and local strategy and policy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in developing and writing reports, and presenting information to a variety of audiences.
- Experience and knowledge of working within statutory health and social care services, third sector, housing or related organisation in the delivery or management of operational services. Experience/ knowledge of working
- Experience/ knowledge of working across collaboratively organisational boundaries and in partnership with other organisations.
- Experience of translating policy into delivery for population benefit.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to facilitate and influence.
- Excellent communications skills both verbal and written.
Desirable criteria
- Appreciation of Risk
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Crocker
- Job title
- Adult Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633431718
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