Director of Women and Children’s Strategic Programme

Overview

As Director of the Women and Children’s Strategic Programme, you will lead the 400m+ New Women and Children’s Hospital Programme, a landmark NHS capital and service transformation. You’ll shape care pathways and service redesign across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, reporting into high-level governance and working with national bodies. This role combines strategy, delivery, and stakeholder leadership to create a sustainable, digitally enabled healthcare campus. You’ll drive a high-impact programme with autonomy and a clear legacy.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working possible
• sponsorship may be available
• senior leadership role
• significant capital project at national level
• opportunity to shape regional and national healthcare

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, development and delivery of the New Women and Children’s Hospital Programme
• Direct complex business case development, commercial strategies and programme governance
• Manage stakeholder engagement with political leaders, clinicians, regulators, national bodies and communities
• Oversee delivery of a modern, sustainable, digitally enabled healthcare campus
• Operate with strategic autonomy while managing risks and maintaining momentum through national assurance processes
• Influence decisions at Trust Board, regional and national levels
• Ensure high-quality design, construction, handover of infrastructure, and delivery on time and budget

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading multi-faceted programmes at 100m+ scale
• Board-level or national assurance process experience
• Public sector board communication and governance experience
• Strategic autonomy in a complex public sector environment
• Experience delivering design, major construction, and handover of infrastructure
• Leadership of multiple professional teams
• HM Treasury business case development for major capital projects
• Management of significant capital budgets (>100m)
• Change management and stakeholder engagement
• Knowledge of NHS construction procurement processes (e.g., traditional, P21+, Procure 22, LIFT) and contracts (NEC, JCT)
• Proficiency in risk management and project management software; MS Office

• Stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking
• Decisive leadership
• NHS construction procurement frameworks (P21+, Procure 22, LIFT)
• ProCure23 (P23) framework
• Health and Safety regulations in built environments

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