Senior Programme Manager - Strategic Estates

Main area Programme Manageement, Commissioning/ Estates Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  
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Employer NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Gail House Town Maidstone Salary £66,582 - £77,368 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/08/2026 23:59

You will be responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of estates programmes and projects. encompassing primary, community and neighbourhood health care (out of hospital services), across Kent and Medway, ensuring alignment with ICB and national strategies, policies and investment frameworks.

Through a multi-disciplinary team approach they lead project development and delivery, ensuring that estates planning supports high quality, integrated services that meet the needs of local residents.
The postholder holds strategic relationships with partners and contributes to joint commissioning strategies.

• Manages business case development and approvals processes ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory processes and delivering value for money.
• Ensures that delivery of the estates portfolio supports services to meet the needs of residents, working closely with colleagues across the ICB and system partners to ensure integration.
• Manages estates capital planning, prioritisation and investment programmes in line with agreed estates strategy, plans and priorities.
• Provides oversight and management of processes, communications and requirements in relation to general practice payments and premises schemes in line with the NHS (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions 2024, providing subject matter expertise to the primary care estates and primary care contracting and commissioning teams. This will include managing the ICBs relationship with the District Valuer.
• Will hold strategic relationships with specific partners, including NHS Property Companies and Local Authorities.
• Oversees the process to respond to planning applications to secure planning obligations and respond to bidding rounds to secure Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) for primary and community healthcare infrastructure in line with ICB policy/guidance.

We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.

Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.

We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.

We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

• Educated to Master’s level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience

• Programme management experience in commissioning or estates programmes in the NHS or similar complex system
• Experience developing business cases and navigating…