Project Co-ordinator
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Band 6 Project Coordinator to support delivery of the NHS Secure Boundary service within Cyber Operations. Secure Boundary is a national cyber service that helps protect NHS systems and patient data, operating at scale across a multi-supplier delivery model.
The post holder will provide practical project and programme coordination, helping the team to plan, track and manage activity across a complex live service. This will include supporting governance, maintaining accurate project records, coordinating meetings and actions, tracking risks and issues, and helping ensure delivery remains organised and controlled.
A key part of the role will be supporting the Secure Boundary value add catalogue, which enables NHS organisations to adopt the core service at no cost while purchasing additional capabilities where needed. The catalogue is important to service uptake and value for money, helping reduce the risk of organisations buying separate local solutions. The role will support demand tracking, stakeholder engagement, supplier coordination and financial processes so that the programme can deliver its objectives in line with the approved business case.
Main duties of the job
As a Project Coordinator the post holder will support the effective planning, coordination and delivery of programme objectives. They will maintain project plans, trackers and reporting arrangements, supporting the team to manage milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and actions across onboarding, transition and delivery.
The role will act as a key point of coordination for the Secure Boundary value add catalogue, supporting engagement, demand tracking and critically finance business processes. This will include organising meetings and workshops, updates, taking minutes, following up actions and ensuring information is captured accurately.
The post holder will support business and financial management activity linked to catalogue delivery, including tracking demand, spend, approvals, purchase orders and invoice progress where required. They will work closely with programme, finance, infrastructure delivery and supplier teams to ensure expenditure is properly justified, authorised, monitored and aligned to value for money objectives.
They will communicate with internal and external stakeholders, support the preparation of briefings for the programme in relation to organisational requirements. As well as maintain accurate project records and help identify delivery challenges early. The role will be critical in protecting programme control, supporting service uptake and helping Secure Boundary deliver its intended benefits for NHS organisations and the wider system.
About us
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role and responsibilities.
Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes
Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet:
All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered.
Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role. You dont need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn. For further advice please check https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#security-check-sc
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Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience in supporting project/programmes.
- Experience of building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in planning, preparing, monitoring and reporting of project plans to progress.
Skills and Abilities
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- Able to deal with challenging people and to cope with confidential and sensitive information.
- Ability to change ways of working to aid cooperation within and between teams in order to achieve results.
Qualifications
- Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
Any NHSE office
Any NHSE office
LS1 4AP
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/