Programme Manager - Embedding OD principles into Staff Experience
Employee assistant (counselling)
Cycle to work scheme
Mindful employer plus
Occupational health
30 days holiday
Occupational health
Flexi time
Salary £46,822 per annum plus London weighting if applicable
Location Agile working - London or Leeds base.
Expiry Date 07/06/2026 23:59
This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in 11 days at 23:59 BST.
The vacancy
We are seeking a Programme Manager to join NHS Employers, leading work with the organisation to embed organisational development (OD) and continuous improvement into staff experience.
About the role
You’ll help enhance working lives, improve retention and support better patient care. Reporting to an Assistant Director, you’ll work with the Staff Experience and OD teams to design and deliver approaches to support employers to embed OD/improvement principles to work to improve staff experience in line with the delivery of the 10 Year Workforce Plan.
Key priorities include:
- staff standards
- flexible working
- wellbeing
- capability building and culture change
Collaborating across teams, you’ll ensure our support offer is relevant, timely and impactful, helping NHS organisations become great places to work.
About you
As well as an understanding of key retention priorities, insights, challenges and enablers to good work and staff experience you will also have experience in an OD role working in a complex organisation.
You will also have:
- Associate level knowledge and skills in OD, design and navigating change.
- A track record of developing effective and productive professional working relationships both within and outside the NHS, including at a senior level, and engaging with employers to improve workforce and people practices, including facilitation, influencing skills and delivery presentation to external audiences.
- Experience of robustly evaluating activity to demonstrate impact
- Experience in generating written content, briefings, reports and guidance for large scale use.
To apply
Please download the job description at the end of this page and click apply. Please note we do not accept CVs. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should a high number of suitable applications be received.
For an informal discussion about the post before applying please contact carly.telford@nhsemployers.org or Jennifer.gardner@nhsemployers.org to arrange a conversation.
Application deadline: 7th June 2026 (midnight)
Interview date: TBC
About us
The NHS Alliance is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our fantastic staff EDI networks and trade unions.
The NHS Alliance is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to enable them to fulfil their potential at work whilst balancing home life and health and wellbeing.
You will receive an excellent benefits package, including 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), options to buy or sell additional leave, continuous professional development, salary sacrifice schemes including our pension scheme, cycle to work and green car schemes, time off for volunteering and much more.
Benefits
Employee assistant (counselling)
Cycle to work scheme
Mindful employer plus
Occupational health
30 days holiday
Flexi time
Season ticket loan
Eye tests/ flu jabs
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