Programme Lead Capital Development
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job Summary
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Programme Leader to join the Capital Team on a permanent basis to support the strategic development and delivery of a highly complex RAAC programme. The role is Trust wide. The role will work with a range of stakeholders to facilitate discussions to drive the strategy forward to achieve enabling works in year and capture cross‑departmental requirements to determine safe and appropriate strategies for decant and RAAC removal, considering all necessary perspectives. The Project Lead will be an SME in both healthcare programme development and construction / capital interventions and will design processes that will ensure sufficient oversight of key milestones in the programme, and any barriers to delivery, as well as sufficient scope management and associated change control. This will involve leading internal and external teams and working with colleagues across Estates, Capital and our Care Org. clinical and operational staff.
Supporting the creation of a robust strategy, utilising industry standard techniques, the post holder will ensure the RAAC programme delivers by working with clinical reference groups to validate decant strategies and ensure there are clear plans in place for decant activities to support subsequent RAAC removal.
Main Duties of the job
The postholder will be a key role within the Capital Development Team with responsibility for delivering decant and RAAC removal strategy. The successful applicant will have experience in the successful delivery of programmes: including appropriate oversight of the RAAC project team to ensure effective: project scheduling and programme level roll up for executive consumption, stakeholder engagement, procurement, financial management, project monitoring and control. The role will also involve capturing and interpreting technical guidance from estates, design teams and clinical / operational teams. We are therefore interested in applicants who have a background in delivering a complex programme of works within regulated and multi‑stakeholder environments.
This Will Include
* Identifying areas where data quality is poor
* Supporting improvement in data quality
* Developing educational programmes
* Providing subject matter expertise
* Developing data quality insights
About Us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work‑life balance.
Details
* Date posted: 08 December 2025
* Pay scheme: Agenda for change
* Band: Band 8b
* Salary: £64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum
* Contract: Permanent
* Working pattern: Full‑time, Part‑time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
* Reference number: 236-NCA-EA118-25
* Job locations: Salford Royal, Ladywell Building, Salford, M6 8HA
Person Specification
Essential Knowledge
* Expert knowledge of Capital Programme Management
Essential Experience
* Extensive experience working at a senior management level in a large complex organisation preferably within the NHS
* Managing and implementing change at a senior level
* Experience of establishing, developing and managing a multi‑disciplinary team (internal and external colleagues)
* Extensive experience of managing complex, large scale construction projects at the early design stages
* Demonstrable experience of delivering complex building projects at all stages
* Significant experience in commercial management and procurement processes
* Significant experience of working with complex programmes, preferably within the NHS
* Experience of preparing and presenting reports of complex, sensitive or contentious information at senior forums
Desirable Experience
* Experience of estate master planning, preferably within a healthcare portfolio
Essential Qualifications
* Post‑graduate qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable Qualifications
* Management or Leadership Qualification
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer Details
Employer name: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust / Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Salford Royal, Ladywell Building, Salford, M6 8HA
Employer's website: https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/
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