Deputy Director of Programme Integration

The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it's a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We're delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We're looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations. You will support the leadership and delivery of the Integration workstream, helping drive co-ordination across complex programme activities to support delivery of the New Hospital Programme. The Role Will

• Lead and manage complex programme integration activity to support delivery of programme objectives.
• Work closely with senior leadership to support the development and delivery of the programme's integrated plan.
• Provide leadership and oversight to ensure alignment across programme workstreams and delivery partners.
• Support engagement with internal and external stakeholders to ensure coordinated delivery across multiple disciplines.
• The post holder will support and deputise for the Integration Director where required. The role requires significant experience operating within large-scale and complex programmes, ideally within infrastructure, capital programmes, government or similarly complex environments. Experience within healthcare systems would be beneficial but is not essential. NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS. Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services. In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.  If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process. Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices. Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Najwa Serroukh Job title: Resourcing Business Partner Email address: najwa.serroukh@nhs.net