# Programme Manager MHED and NMHC > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/programme-manager-mhed-and-nmhc/05e9b924-b0d1-4a5d-9e96-5ccb72d506df - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/programme-manager-mhed-and-nmhc/05e9b924-b0d1-4a5d-9e96-5ccb72d506df.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** CPFT at North Cambridgeshire Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Programme manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T08:01:42.606Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Fulbourn/Cambridgeshire_Peterborough_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Programme_Manager/Programme_Manager-v8221549 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8221549?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity to join our team to support our implementation of Mental Health Emergency Departments and Neighbourhood Mental Health Centres within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust If you have programme management experience and would like to work in a large NHS community Trust, this could be your new post! The role will be based within the Transformation and Programme Management Team supporting and working with a wide range of health and care partners. The role of Programme Manager is to support the workstream SRO, clinical lead and responsible Directors in delivery of the stated objectives of the workstreams. The post holder will contribute complex project management expert knowledge and experience in guiding others through the challenges of service transformation projects with complex stakeholder management. The post holder will define a clear strategic direction, setting out plans for project delivery, coordinating redesign and influencing strategic development. If you are enthusiastic and resilient, enjoy challenge, are numerate and self-motivated this is a role for you and will allow you to be a part of an exciting and ambitious programme of work. ### Main duties of the job - Supervise and lead Change Managers and Project Support Officers within the Improvement Team. - Provide high-quality leadership that fosters a culture of improvement and innovation. - Mentor and coach team members, both within and external to the Improvement Team. - Exhibit exemplary leadership behaviour and remove obstacles to enhance team effectiveness. - Advocate for and implement best practices in change management across the team. - Offer formal and informal support to clinical and non-clinical staff. - Actively assist and collaborate with peers in the Improvement Team. This role is pivotal in promoting a supportive and innovative work environment, guiding change processes, and ensuring the adoption of best practices within the team. ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - 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** - Experience of working in partnership with clinical leaders. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post Graduate Degree or Equivalent Management Qualification - Formal Programme and/or Project management training and experience **Desirable** - Relevant Masters level qualification in field of health or social care. ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - 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. ## Documents - [cpft values (pdf, 114.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1743) - [cpft benefits (pdf, 74.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2967) - [cpft accommodation (pdf, 713.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2805) - [cpft mindful employers (pdf, 51.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1744) - [mhed nmhc programme manager jdps (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541103) - [employee probation period guidance (pdf, 177.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3046) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.