Programme Director | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £117,645 - £134,103 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EU |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7654518/196-SMT1774D |
Summary
The Children’s Hospital Programme (CHP) has been established to ensure that Evelina London continues to deliver the Trust’s ambition to be a provider of a comprehensive range of children’s services to south east London and beyond. Huge progress has been made over the past decade, with new services set up, many existing services extended to ensure full 24/7 cover and a wide range of new clinical and research facilities opened.
Building on the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust merger with the Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust in 2021, as well as NHS England’s decision for the Evelina London to provide very specialist cancer services through the Children’s Cancer Principal Treatment Centre, the Children’s Hospital Programme will be instrumental in in in integrating and growing specialist services driven by national clinical standards and the growing volume and complexity of children’s needs. This includes co-locating congenital heart disease and cancer services with other specialist services for children. Recognising the general growth of demand for children’s clinical services and the increasing specialisations required, the CHP will be one of service development, reconfiguration and transformation across our hospital sites, with significant enabling capital investments.
The CHP has been established as a Major Programme within the Trust, and involves substantial transformational change and capital investment. The programme is currently preparing to deliver a Business Case in 2026.
The Programme Director is a senior member of the Children’s Hospital Programme Team and reports directly to the Evelina London Director of Major Programmes.
This is a key role in supporting the realisation of our ambitious strategic vision for the Children’s Hospital Programme. The post holder will fulfil the role of the capital programme director and will work as part of a matrix team within and outside the organisation to deliver this complex programme, ensuring coherence and co-ordination across sub-programmes, other major programmes and initiatives.
Partnership working will be essential to fulfil the breadth of this portfolio, with the post-holder required to work as part of a multi-professional matrix structure with estates, facilities, finance, programme and project, and fundraising colleagues involved in delivering this programme. They will be a role model for effective collaboration.
This role provides additional programme capacity at a time of massive change and major programme delivery.
Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With almost 4,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’. Every year, the number of women, children and young people Evelina London cares for, in our hospitals and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world. As the only NHS Trust in London with women’s and specialist children’s services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children.
Find out more at www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk. Watch our short film to see inside our children’s hospital.
Please kindly refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details about the duties and responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025