Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£86,114 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust is home to Europe’s largest dental school, a £160 million Cancer Centre, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and one of the largest critical care units in the UK. It is part of King’s Health Partners and works closely with King’s College London to deliver world-leading clinical research and patient care.

The GMS Programme Manager will provide overall management of large-scale and complex projects across the Genomic Medicine Service (GMS) core and enabling functions. This role involves developing integrated, large-scale change programmes with internal and external partners to achieve GMS strategic aims. The post holder will lead a team responsible for managing projects throughout their lifecycle, ensuring delivery against agreed milestones, KPIs, and benefits.

Key responsibilities include developing and overseeing a robust programme management framework, maintaining oversight of workstreams, deploying creative solutions, and ensuring appropriate evaluation and metrics are in place to monitor impact and milestone achievement. The role requires matrix management, leadership, and collaboration with clinicians, health professionals, and patient representatives to realise anticipated benefits. The post holder will also lead the establishment of effective partnerships to support regional service improvement plans and innovative healthcare delivery models.

The South East GMS, hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’, is a partnership covering Kent, South London, Surrey, and Sussex, serving approximately 9 million patients. It delivers core functions including cancer and rare disease clinical services, population health, and genomics laboratory functions, alongside enabling functions such as people and workforce, research and innovation, data and digital, and transformation and service improvement.

The Trust is committed to addressing health inequalities by building a diverse team and ensuring strong patient representation across projects. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a pioneering genomic medicine service within a leading NHS organisation.

Experience
- Proven track record of leading successful projects and operational improvements, including business case preparation, service commissioning, contract negotiation, and performance monitoring.
- Extensive project management experience in large, complex organisations with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience managing large, multi-stranded budgets from diverse income sources.
- Demonstrable skills in individual, team, financial, process, and change management.
- Experience in genomic medicine service environments with a strong understanding of key stakeholders and structures.

About you
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and motivate teams.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, networking, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a matrix management environment.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement, consensus building, and maintaining effective communication.
- Analytical thinker with advanced judgement skills and experience interpreting complex data.
- Committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred services and addressing health inequalities.

Qualifications
- Relevant Masters degree, equivalent professional qualification, or equivalent experience.
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner level or equivalent).
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
- Desirable: Subject matter expertise in genomic medicine services and knowledge of NHS strategy and policy.