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- Prif leoliad
- Administration
- Gradd
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Cyfnod Penodol: 12 mis (until 30 September 2026 - Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Oriau
- Llawnamser
- Gweithio hyblyg
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 990-ECC&D-17520-E
- Cyflogwr
- NHS England
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Wellington Place/ Wellington House
- Tref
- Leeds / London
- Cyflog
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
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- Yn flynyddol
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- 16/10/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr

Programme Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Do you want to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Working in the NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you’ll do.
The NHS Cancer Programme sets the agenda for cancer services in England. Working with patients, clinicians, charities and across the public sector, our aim is to reduce preventable cancers, diagnose cancer earlier, increase survival and improve the quality of life and experience for cancer patients. We develop national policy and strategy, and work with Cancer Alliances across the country to transform services for patients.
This is an exciting time for the NHS Cancer Programme as we drive improvements in performance against the cancer waiting times standards; and developing a National Cancer Plan.
The Cancer Programme team takes its responsibility to promote equality and diversity seriously. We respect colleagues from different backgrounds and embrace different cultural preferences in everything we do.
We’re recruiting a Programme Manager to join our Cancer Alliances Strategy & Engagement (CASE) team. The post holder will work as part of an exciting, cross-cutting team within the NHS Cancer Programme to deliver an efficient, effective and high quality Cancer Alliances strategy and engagement service.
This vacancy is offered as a fixed term maternity cover position until September 2026.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The role focuses on local strategy and delivery, through Cancer Alliances, working in the NHS Cancer Programme’s Delivery team, managing projects that support the local delivery of the national cancer agenda.
Primary responsibilities:
- Design and deliver products and initiatives to support Cancer Alliances to plan, deliver and report on local service transformation locally;
- Build effective and impactful working relationships with Cancer Alliances, Regional teams, and across the National Cancer team, to drive successful planning, delivery and assurance of cancer priorities;
- Implementation of the operating model for local delivery, to ensure our work with regional teams and Cancer Alliances aligns with the wider policy and NHS environment;
- Cancer Alliance leadership development and capability support.
Development of and reporting on Cancer Alliances annual plans and financial allocations to senior delivery forums; - Work collaboratively with senior stakeholders, both internally and externally, to deliver projects in a way that meets the needs of the NHS Cancer Programme and its stakeholders;
- Develop and manage member(s) of the CASE team to ensure appropriate project support of CASE priorities.
- Represent the Cancer Programme at a range of internal and external forums and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and delivery partners.
- Work flexibly across the team’s portfolio and within tight timescales.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is Maternity Leave.
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to masters level, or with equivalent experience of working at a manager level in a specialist area
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Knowledge of the wider NHS landscape and how Cancer Alliances operate and function within it
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of designing and delivering policy driven and strategic approaches to engagement
- Experience acting as a senior sponsor/relationship manager to NHS systems, collaboratives or networks
- Experience of programme management in a large-scale organisation, and operating within complex organisational structures
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Demonstrate ability to build effective and impactful working relationships with director level colleagues to drive delivery and assurance
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Gill Bartlett
- Teitl y swydd
- Strategy Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda NHS England yn Gwasanaethau Gweinyddol neu bob sector