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NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.

Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.

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0300 330 1369

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Ref: 990-TD-CY-15016-E Vacancy ID: 7423880

Assistant Director of Programmes

Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2025 23:59

Open

Accepting applications until: 16-Sep-2025 23:59

Location

NHSE Office in Leeds / Exeter / London
Wellington Place, Leeds / Hexagon House, Exeter / Wellington House, London
Leeds / Exeter / London
LS1 4AP
West Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Fixed term: 12 months (until 31 October 2026 - Secondment only for current NHS Employees)
Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

£91,342 - £105,337 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 8d)

Specialty

Cyber Operations

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.

Job overview

Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.

The Cyber Operations sub-directorate consists of 4 operational areas:

  • Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU).
  • Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU).
  • Cyber Improvement Programme (CIP).
  • Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO).

The Cyber Improvement Programme (CIP) aims to deliver cyber improvements that provide long-term foundational change towards sustainable cyber risk management across the health and social care system, working towards the vision of creating a health and care sector that is resilient to cyber-attack, improving the safety of patients and service users through good cyber security.

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In this role you will be responsible for the delivery of multiple projects/programmes/workstreams within the Cyber Improvement Programme with a specific focus on change management and accountability and responsibility for:

  • The delivery of projects and programmes relating to system change, working with colleagues and subject matter experts to scope, plan design and deliver those across multiple organisations.
  • The delivery of the whole lifecycle of allocated programmes of work containing multiple projects, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, acting as a point of escalation for project and programme managers within the team.
  • The delivery of complex organisational change programmes and facilitating the uptake of initiatives that support excellence and embedding of cyber security across the health and care system.
  • Stakeholder engagement and communications engaging on complex issues, strategy and policy with stakeholders at all levels including programme reporting to stakeholders and senior NHS England and Department of Health colleagues.
  • Forging close working relationships across the organisation and beyond to facilitate an effective matrix management approach to delivery of projects and programmes of work to ensure integration at all levels.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes

Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet:

All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered.


Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role. You don’t need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn. For further advice please check https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#security-check-sc

Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is short term vacancy

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.

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates experience of scoping, designing, costing and managing complex projects and programmes including the development of key performance indicators and milestones, managing conflicts, ensuring that interdependencies are managed effectively and that risks are mitigated appropriately to deliver within agreed timescales and budgets.
  • Demonstrates considerable experience of effectively delivering business change initiatives within the health and care system to facilitate adoption and take up of products and services across the health and care system in order to realise mutual benefits.
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates experience of writing and delivering high-level programme reports for programme boards assessing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations on mitigation and management of risk where a range of options may exist.

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates ability to communicate, engage and build successful relationships with key internal and external partners including influencing and negotiating on difficult and contentious issues which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the programme.
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates excellent communication and presentation skills communicating at times complex, sensitive and contentious information to a wide range of potentially hostile/antagonistic audiences.

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • To have one or more of the below programme /project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience: • Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner • Managing Successful Programmes Advanced Practitioner • P3O Practitioner • APM Registered Project Professional.

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Neelam Uraon
Job title
Programme Director
Email address
[email protected]
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