# Programme Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/programme-manager/35a1e78b-cd3a-4588-883e-1405f05f9395 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/programme-manager/35a1e78b-cd3a-4588-883e-1405f05f9395.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £75,328 - £86,114 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover) - **Employment type:** Full time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-28T15:50:30.712Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8189840 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8189840?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced, dynamic leader passionate about transforming children’s healthcare? Join West London Children’s Healthcare (WLCH) as a Programme and Innovation Manager and drive high-impact initiatives across North West London. You’ll collaborate with clinical teams, commissioning partners, and stakeholders to deliver innovative programmes that improve outcomes for children and young people. This pivotal role will provide a highly effective management function for programme initiatives that are facilitated by our organisation, supporting the development and delivery of high impact programmes that span the entire North West London region. From enhancing mental health support in acute settings to advancing care pathways in epilepsy and transition services, the post holder will take on a portfolio of highly impactful programmes that will continue to change, and work with a highly skilled MDT to shape and innovative integrated solutions that improve outcomes for children and young people. The successful candidate will champion service improvement, foster cross organisational collaboration, and ensure programmes are aligned with strategic priorities and delivered in a highly organised and timely manner. This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible difference to the lives of children and young people, touching pathways that are key to the delivery of the ten year plan and improving the lives of our population both in the hospital and outside! ### Main duties of the job - You will work across a complex and evolving portfolio of programmes, relationships, challenges, and innovations that contribute to service transformation for children and young people. - You will be expected to think laterally, build strong and trusted relationships quickly, and work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. - You will bring a strong appetite for analytics, evidence, and learning into everything you do, and demonstrate the ability to rapidly understand new clinical and operational subjects. - Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development, including undertaking an annual Personal Development Review and supporting others to do the same. - Engage proactively in available project opportunities, with an expectation of contributing to project work for approximately 70–80% of your time, often working on several programmes simultaneously, and balancing short term deliverables with longer-term strategic goals. This is a guideline rather than a formal performance metric, intended to support effective workload and resource planning. - The post-holder is responsible for shaping and overseeing the delivery of projects (including coordinating research, analysis, and materials production), working with significant self-direction and directing others; and for managing various inputs to ensure the completion of projects to time and within the allocated resources. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Bachelors qualification or equivalent experience **Desirable** - Masters Degree qualification or equivalent experience (especially within the health sector) - Prince2 or equivalent experience for the management of complex projects ### Skills and capabilities **Essential** - Ability to prioritise workload effectively within a fastpaced and pressured environment, and work to strict deadlines using a systematic approach - Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions - Advanced level of working with Microsoft Office to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence - Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, some at very senior level ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Knowledge and Experience Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organisational realities - Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals - Knowledge health research methods, health research methods, and systems thinking **Desirable** - Experience of developing, delivering, and managing complex improvement projects, having led or been part of a multi-disciplinary team - Proven experience of establishing and leading on national strategic work in relation to policy development, operations, and systems ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 571.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10494324) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements form (doc, 901.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10494325) ## 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.