Programme Manager

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 per annum, including high cost allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

We are looking for exceptional an Programme Manager to support the design and implementation of key system transformation and to deliver real benefits to our patients in SEL.

You will have:

Experience: A track record of managing projects in complex, politically sensitive healthcare environments.

Skill: High-level analytical ability to interpret complex data and the ability to communicate with a wide range of key stakeholders, including clinical and operational teams, patients, and other system partners.

Mindset: Tenacity, autonomy, and a genuine commitment to collaborative working

We are a dynamic and supportive team, committed to building individuals’ skills and experience in challenging but enjoyable system leadership roles.

We welcome applications from candidates that would like the opportunity to influence transformation and innovation in acute services in SEL.

The Programme Manager will provide high-quality programme and project management support across the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative (APC) Networks and Programmes, working closely with clinical, operational, corporate and system partners across the three acute Trusts. The role exists to support the delivery of agreed APC priorities by coordinating complex work streams, strengthening governance and reporting, and enabling effective collaboration across organisations.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring programmes are well planned and being implemented, risks and issues are proactively managed, and progress is clearly communicated, contributing to improved patient outcomes, equity of access, system performance, and the effective use of shared resources across South East London.

The Programme Manager role will work across a set of networks/programmes aligned to APC priorities and programme requirements.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Our six strategic ambitions are delivering
high-quality patient care
; creating a great place to work
; leading pioneering research, innovation and education
; building strong and successful partnerships
; providing timely and efficient care
; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability
.

We have also agreed four new organisational values –
Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we…