Programme Director – HealthTech, Ref 111

Role Type

Programme Manager | Transformation Lead | Digital Strategy Consultant

Skills / Experience

Senior Delivery Leadership | Stakeholder Engagement | Transformation Leadership | Programme Delivery | Governance & PMO Leadership | Multi-Million Pound Budgets

Availability

Immediately Available

Contract Preference

Contract or Permanent

Salary / Rate Expectation

Negotiable

Profile

 

A senior digital transformation leader with nearly 30 years of experience delivering large-scale change across health and social care. Specializes in shaping strategic frameworks, leading complex EPR and shared care record programmes, and embedding sustainable service and technology transformation. Proven ability to work at board level, driving assurance and remediation of digital programmes, and aligning executive teams, clinical leaders, and suppliers to deliver measurable outcomes. Highly skilled in governance, benefits realization, procurement, and multi-organisation programme leadership.

 

Key Skills

  • Senior delivery leadership and programme assurance
  • Board-level stakeholder engagement and strategic facilitation
  • Digital health strategy and transformation leadership
  • End-to-end programme delivery: business case, procurement, implementation
  • Programme governance and PMO leadership
  • EPR usability, training, and service management expertise
  • Benefits realization and multi-million-pound budget accountability
  • Supplier performance management and contract negotiation
  • Change management and sustainable service adoption
  • Mentoring and high-performing team development

 

Experience

 

Associate Consultant (Mar 2021 – Present) – Health & Social Care Consulting

  • Provided strategic advisory on digital strategy and transformation for NHS organisations.
  • Supported ICS and ICB-level programmes, focusing on governance, delivery assurance, and benefits realization.

 

Associate Consultant (Oct 2023 – Present) – Digital Health Technology

  • Delivered subject matter expertise for digital transformation programmes across health and social care.
  • Advised on EPR readiness, procurement governance, and supplier negotiations.

 

Founding Partner (Oct 2023 – Present) – Health & Care Consultancy

  • Established consultancy offering strategic leadership and delivery for NHS Trusts and national programmes.
  • Led multi-organisation transformation initiatives and capability building.

 

Senior Programme Manager (Sept 2025 – Sept 2025) – Acute Healthcare

  • Directed discovery and mobilisation phases of a joint digitisation programme.
  • Oversaw EPR readiness, governance, RAID management, and benefits definition.

 

Associate Consultant (Dec 2024 – Mar 2025) – National Health Strategy

  • Co-designed a national EPR Optimisation Model and usability blueprints.
  • Facilitated stakeholder engagement across multiple NHS Trusts and ICSs.

 

Associate Consultant (Mar 2024 – Oct 2024) – Acute Healthcare

  • Led digital transformation engagements including EPR programme health checks and strategic reviews.
  • Provided PMO best practice guidance and training.

 

Associate Consultant (Feb 2022 – July 2023) – Health & Social Care Consulting

  • Delivered full business cases, procurement support, and digital strategy development for ICSs and NHS providers.
  • Embedded PMO methodologies and governance frameworks.

 

Programme Director / Head of PMO (Nov 2020 – Dec 2021) – Integrated Care System

  • Directed delivery of a shared care record programme enabling system-wide patient information sharing.
  • Established and led a digital PMO, embedding portfolio governance and delivery structures.

 

Programme Manager (Sep 2018 – Feb 2020) – Commissioning Organisation

  • Managed a portfolio of programmes and projects with anticipated savings of £5m+.
  • Developed PMO methodology and governance processes.

 

IM&T Programme Manager (Oct 2014 – Sep 2018) – Community Healthcare

  • Delivered a 5-year IM&T strategy and multiple IT transformation initiatives.
  • Deputised for the Chief Information Officer and managed programme teams.

 

ICT Project Manager / Transformation Project Manager / EPR Programme Manager (May 2004 – Oct 2014) – Acute Healthcare

  • Delivered critical IT infrastructure projects including EPR implementation and digitisation initiatives.
  • Managed multiple projects such as EDMS, EPMA, telemedicine, and clinical systems.

 

For further information on this candidate please use reference number:  111

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