Strategic Programmes Project Manager | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	04 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£53,751 - £60,651 pa inc
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	06 March 2026
Location:	Dartford, DA2 7WG
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7776349/277-7776349-CORP

Summary

We are recruiting for a 12-month FTC for a Strategic Programmes Project Manager to support delivery of our organisational priorities across the Great Care, Timely Care and Best Place to work priority programmes.

This role provides vital coordination to ensure that our strategic programmes are supported by strong planning, aligned timelines, robust governance, and consistent reporting. The post holder will work closely with Strategic Programme Leads, Organisational Development Team and wider people team, operational teams, and transformation colleagues to coordinate project structures, support delivery, and evidence progress against strategic objectives.

This position requires a proactive, organised, and adaptive project manager who can create clarity, maintain momentum, and support teams to deliver improvements in quality, productivity, flow, and patient experience. The first priority area for this role will be to lead the creation and delivery of the project management infrastructure for our Timely Care – Zero Delays strategic priority area.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

• Build and maintain strong project management infrastructure for strategic programmes.
• Develop and coordinate project plans, timelines, milestones, and dependencies.
• Maintain reporting, dashboards, risks, and governance documentation.
• Work with stakeholders across clinical, operational, OD, digital, finance, and transformation teams.
• Support governance, assurance, and preparation of reports and papers for senior leaders.
• Facilitate engagement, communication, and planning sessions to embed change

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Key Task and Responsibilities

Strategic Programme Delivery

• Work closely with the Strategic Programme Leads to Lead the creation of a robust project management infrastructure for strategic programmes particularly zero delays, ensuring a clear framework for planning, delivery, and reporting.
• Support the development of project plans, milestones, dependencies and delivery timelines across strategic priority areas.
• Work in partnership with Strategic Programme Leads to ensure alignment between project plans, operational delivery, and organisational strategy.
• Support additional work across Timely Care and Great Care programmes to maintain consistency and alignment across all strategic areas.
• Support collaboration with relevant stakeholders to ensure the programme developed meets organisational, system, service user and trainer need and is a sustainable offer for longer term delivery at the end of project period.

Project Management & Coordination
• Conduct scoping work and thematic analysis to support programme planning.
• Break down programmes into phases, tasks, and deliverables, maintaining project documentation including Gantt charts and RAID logs.
• Maintain up‑to‑date reporting dashboards, trackers, and governance documents that clearly evidence progress and risks.
• Proactively identify delays, barriers, and risks, escalating to Programme Managers and SROs as appropriate.
• Coordinate workstream activity, ensuring milestones are aligned, realistic, and well communicated.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• Work collaboratively with clinicians, operational managers, strategic improvement teams, and corporate colleagues.
• Support effective stakeholder communication including updates, presentations, and briefing papers for senior leaders and Board committees.
• Facilitate engagement sessions to ensure teams understand programme objectives, timelines, expectations and required deliverables.
• Maintain strong working relationships with cross‑functional partners including Quality Improvement, Digital, Finance, and Performance.

Governance & Assurance
• Support the establishment and maintenance of programme governance structures.
• Ensure all service and cost improvement schemes are underpinned by robust governance standards.
• Produce reports, papers, and presentations to communicate complex project information to senior managers and executive teams.

Monitoring, Tracking & Reporting
• Track delivery of milestones and benefits realisation across workstreams.
• Monitor progress against strategic objectives and provide regular high‑quality updates.
• Ensure all project documentation is accurate, version‑controlled, and aligned with Trust governance requirements.

Supporting Organisational Change & Improvement
• Facilitate structured planning sessions, supporting teams to navigate change.
• Help embed new ways of working by supporting adoption of improved systems, processes, and performance management practices.
• Work closely with internal improvement specialists to align project delivery with cultural and behavioural expectations.


This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026

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