SEGMS Senior Programme Manager | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The South East Genomic Medicine Service (GMS) is recruiting a Senior Programme Manager to lead key transformation and improvement programmes at the start of a newly awarded 10 year contract. If you are someone who loves taking on new challenges, bringing structure to complex programmes and driving change then this could be the role for you!

You would join a dynamic and enthusiastic team who are committed to embedding genomic medicine across the region. This role will work across clinical specialties and sit within an established structure that enables collaborative working and continued development.

It's an exciting time to join the GMS with opportunities to shape the service in its new structure and take on some new programmes that can have real impact on patients and clinicians across the South East region.

Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas', you'll have access to all of the Trust benefits as well as being connected with colleagues from across the South East region that we serve. The team also run regular socials and have an annual Staff Day with awards to recognise and celebrate colleagues from all departments.

If you are an enthusiastic and driven programme manager who is passionate about embedding genomics into the NHS then we'd love to hear from you!

The South East GMS is seeking a Senior Programme Managerresponsible for providing overall management and leadership of a programme or significant work stream(s) to ensure outputs are delivered effectively and to time.

This role is responsible for leading rigorous and robust transformation and improvement programmes; programme strategy; programme management including planning, reporting, managing risk, and a strong focus on benefits realisation.

The post holder will develop and oversee the direction and delivery of all project work streams, and support and enable senior managers, clinicians, partners and directors to deliver the programme.

A key aspect of the role will be to ensure appropriate evaluation and metrics are in place to support impact monitoring and milestone achievement.

The role is expected to provide leadership directly and indirectly for project management and support and identify resources needed to enable programme delivery.

The post holder will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies and delivery of objectives

It is expected that the specific programme / projects managed by the post holder will change over time as the portfolio of work changes.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team at the start of a newly awarded 10-year contract for the GMS.

The South East GMSis one of seven network providers recently commissioned by NHS England (NHSE) for delivering genomic testing, pathway transformation and embedding genomic medicine into routine care.

The GMS is a partnership, hosted by Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust as Lead Provider. Our partnership includes Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, St Georges’ University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and Synnovis, a leading pathology provider. The South East GMS covers Kent, South London, Surrey and Sussex and aims to accelerate the impact of genomics for the benefit of our c.9 million patient population.

The South East GMS is committed to addressing the health inequalities that have arisen as a result of previous inequitable access to genomic medicine services. We will do this by appointing a team that represents the diversity that exists across our region, strengthening our links across care pathways and ensuring that we have strong patient representation across all our projects.

The South East GMS operates under an integrated governance structure, with strategic oversight from a regional GMS Partnership Board. This integrated governance structure includes representation from partner Trusts.

Programme Management

· Lead the production of a programme plan that delivers agreed programme milestones and objectives that are consistent with overall business plans and programme strategy.

· Lead thedevelopmentofbusinesscases,including feasibility studies, outline business cases (OBC), and detailed scheme designs.

· Provide programme management leadership and expertise to the programme and individuals in the team, to deliver the objectives of the system.

· Plan and organise complex, long term and often interdependent projects that form the programme.

· Design, facilitate and effectively lead programme management meetings with stakeholders; ensuring breadth in participation and a focus on action planning.

· Determine and allocate staff and other resources for the programme and individual projects, monitoring work allocation and re-allocating as necessary to ensure successful delivery to time, cost and quality.

· Champion the use of appropriate project management practice.

· Proactively monitor progress to ensure the programme is managed in line with the Trust’s Values, Standing Financial Instructions, project management processes, and in compliance with appropriate legislation, statutory approvals and mandatory standards.

· Commission, plan and implement appropriate evaluation and audit of the programme across sites and organisations.

Financial management

· Ensure that programme related business plans are underpinned by detailed and robust financial plans through budget planning and negotiation of appropriate budgets.

· Manages budget for own area of work and multi-stranded project workstreams to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary reports.

· Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage.

· Lead the commissioning and procurement of products, equipment, services, systems and facilities, as required for the delivery of the project.

· Deliver and oversee complex recharging arrangements across multiple organisations.

Staff and stakeholder management

· Lead engagement plans for the programme to proactively ensure that positive and effective relations are developed and maintained between members of the team, all clients and key internal and external stakeholders throughout the project.

· Lead strategies to achieve acceptance, consensus and alignment of views, both formally and informally from senior managers and clinicians.

· Use highly developed negotiation, persuasion and motivational skills to gain support for the programme across the breadth of stakeholders, including commissioners, patients and providers.

· Establish and lead framework, governance and systems to support effective programme management.

· Provide full line management and leadership to multidisciplinary team(s), assigning responsibility to achieve the programme’s objectives.

· Lead project management training and model practices to both internal staff members and external stakeholders and partners.

· Present and take feedback at board level

· Work in a matrix management style and foster close working relations with other stakeholders.

· Lead the development and performance of the team to ensure they remain high performing, credible and delivery-orientated.

Information management

· Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate programme information management systems for allocated projects ensuring they are fit for purpose to a range of audiences.

· Lead programme team to develop, refine and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data, including quantitative and qualitative data.

· Accountable for ensuring data quality of databases required by the programme.

· Lead and develop policies and protocols to support the programme that are consistent with Trust standards and work across clinical services.

· Support wider review and development of existing project information management systems to ensure an integrated approach to programme management.

Strategy, change and service improvement

· Lead the development of a programme strategy including research and development to identify, develop and promote best practice.

· Ensure infrastructure in place to test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment.

· Regular horizon scanning of best practice and ways of working within the sector and within project management

Personal Development

· Maintain up to date knowledge of a range of skills including service improvement techniques and be responsible for developing and maintaining own CPD programme.

Research and Development

· Undertake primary and secondary research, audits and evaluations as required.

General

· Autonomy for specific areas of directorate, to assess the impact of change and make decisions, balancing risks and priorities

· Provide advice to the GM/DMT.

· Proactive in identifying and addressing issues which are significant within and across directorates.

This advert closes on Thursday 7 May 2026