All Locations
Hemel Hempstead, Hybrid/Remote
Vacancy ID:
4578
Position
Business Development
Advertising Salary
£149,500 per annum
Careers Site Advertising End Date
10 Oct 2025
Vacancy Type
Fixed Term/Secondment

About The Role

Overview

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled healthcare workers (Bank Members) in NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations across the country, meeting short, medium, and long-term staffing needs.

We are looking for an exceptional Enterprise Programme Systems Change Director  to join our Senior Leadership team and reporting directly to the Chief Finance Officer.  This is a unique opportunity to shape and lead the Transformation strategy of a growing and impactful organisation.
 

Please note; although the position is advertised as a fixed term contract opportunity, this role could also be undertaken flexibly through our bank.

 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Technology Delivery Oversight: Lead the delivery of key technology platforms, ensuring successful integration with legacy systems.
  • Business Processes Change: Lead the programme with balanced prioritisation across the change portfolio working in partnership with business sponsors. Accountable for delivering the requirements and timeline that will transform outcomes across clients and operational teams. Support the business to develop and implement change management strategies that drive user adoption and organisational readiness.
  • Commercial & Supplier Management: Apply strong commercial acumen to manage suppliers and contracts, ensuring cost-effective and value-driven partnerships, including SalesForce, Bullhorn and Digital Modus.
  • Leadership & Team Building: Build and lead multidisciplinary teams across a complex ecosystem of internal stakeholders and external partners.
  • Programme Planning & Governance: Design, implement, and maintain robust programme structures and governance frameworks to ensure effective planning, delivery effectiveness and assurance to Executive, Board and Shareholder.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Ensure that there is cohesive working between technical teams and senior business stakeholders and that programme governance meets the needs of stakeholders.
  • Risk, Dependency & Performance Management: Identify and manage risks and interdependencies across multiple concurrent initiatives. Maintain clear oversight of programme interdependencies, risks, and issues, supported by structured reporting tools and performance dashboards.

About The Candidate

 
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Programme Systems Change Director who brings a mix of strategic vision, technical expertise, and strong leadership skills. You will have a proven track record of delivering strategy and governance in a large, complex organisation, preferably with exposure to the healthcare or public sectors.
You must have experience of operating at or near board level in a senior position.
 
Required Experience & Skills
 
  • Proven experience as Enterprise Programme Systems Change Director for technology in a complex organisation, preferably with government and/or heavily regulated sector experience
  • Strong background in portfolio, programme and risk management and experienced at working at Executive and Board level.
  • Experience managing multiple, large-scale transformation programmes.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and build high-performing delivery environments.
  • Experience delivering technology transformation including SaaS, PaaS, and DevOps
  • Experience of leading implementation of strategic and adaptive (agile) Portfolio Management and Delivery
  • Experience with Salesforce ecosystem and platforms such as Bullhorn Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and Allocate e-rostering System.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Skilled in change management and organisational readiness
  • Highly organised, decisive, assertive, and capable of navigating ambiguity with confidence
  • Consistently achieves outstanding results.

About Us

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

  • Generous annual leave allowance with the ability to buy and sell - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
  • A commitment to talent management & development
  • Values Star of the Month! -  Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
  • Pension – We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Wellbeing Programme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

NHSP is committed to being an inclusive employer of choice, working with a variety of partner organisations which provide valuable insights and best practice. We are accredited as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work. As part of our ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we have been awarded the  Race Equality Code Quality Mark and are a signatory of Disability Confident, Menopause Pledge and Mental Health at Work Commitment.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

As part of our commitment to EDI, as well as having a number of related staff support networks and calendar of activities, NHS professionals is also working to the following aims:
 
  • To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society
  • To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does 
  • To ensure we create a psychological safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best 
  • To actively support and Include disabled people as part of our commitment to the Disability Confident scheme, including offering an interview to applicants to meet the minimum criteria and choose to apply under the scheme.
 
We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.
 
 
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