As a Programme Manager within NHS Blood Supply, youll play a pivotal role in shaping services that directly impact patient care and outcomes. You will lead a range of complex and high-profile projects/programmes from initial concept through to successful delivery, ensuring each one strengthens NHSBTs capability to save and improve lives. Working within an organisation driven by purpose and values, you will ensure every project aligns with strategic priorities, meets operational needs, and delivers tangible benefits to donors, colleagues, and the patients who rely on us.In this role, you will bring expert programme and project management skills to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, driving progress through robust planning, stakeholder engagement, and effective resource & budget management. Youll influence at all levels, even without direct line authority, while fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement & high-quality customer care. As a trusted leader, you will also deputise for the Portfolio & Programme Manager and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of NHSBTs project management methods and tools.This is an opportunity for an experienced project or programme professional to make a meaningful difference in a nationally critical service. If you thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy solving complex problems & want your work to directly support the safety, reliability & future of the blood supply chain, this role offers a purposeful next steps
Main duties of the job
To manage programmes or portfolios of related NHSBT projects from inception through to completion. To ensure timely and successful project conclusions and delivery of capability for achieving business benefits through;Planning, supporting and monitoring the progress of the programmeManaging internal resources and external suppliers and consultants,ensuring that programme and project deliverables are tightly linked to the achievement of strategic initiatives for the business unittaking accountability for the planning, structuring, leading and executionEnsuring adherence to programme objectives.Participate in the development and improvement of the NHSBT Portfolio, Programme and Project Management tools and methods
About us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference – Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we’ll save and improve more lives than ever.You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Possess a degree in an appropriate discipline (e.g. business, management, information systems) OR demonstrable equivalent experience
- Practitioner Certificate in PRINCE2 or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
- Proven ability to provide detailed project plans, set deadlines and milestones, allocate and monitor resources and identify critical path
- Proven experience in a broad range of project lifecycles
- Proven experience & knowledge of the production of business cases and all associated documentation required throughout a projects lifecycle.
- Proven resource management and allocation experience, including those not under direct line management control
- Proven experience and knowledge of budgeting and financial control
- Knowledge of using Microsoft Office tools, in particular Microsoft Project, TEAMs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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