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Job summary
The National Patient Safety Team is seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to take on the dual role of Product Manager and Scrum Masterfor the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service. This is a unique opportunity to lead the delivery of a nationally significant digital product that supports safer care across the NHS.
The role is offered as a Band 8A fixed term contract until 31st March 2027.
Main duties of the job
As the Product Manager and Scrum Masterfor the LFPSE service, you will be at the heart of product delivery, combining agile facilitation with user-centred design and prioritisation. You will lead the day-to-day operations of the service, ensuring it evolves in response to user feedback and clinical needs.
You will facilitate regular stand-ups, planning sessions, and backlog refinement activities, operating within a Kanban framework to maintain delivery momentum. Your responsibilities will include managing user feedback, collaborating with developers and clinical reviewers, and ensuring stories are well-defined, testable, and ready for deployment.
The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams including policy, data, communications, and clinical safety colleagues. You will provide regular updates to stakeholders, contribute to governance papers, and support onboarding and testing activities.
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.
Details
Date posted
01 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
5 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
990-MD-EC5505-E
Job locations
Any NHSE Office
Nationally
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a high-impact role requiring strong organisational skills, a proactive mindset, and a passion for improving patient safety through digital innovation. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working across disciplines to deliver meaningful change, wed love to hear from you.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
SecondmentsApplicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a high-impact role requiring strong organisational skills, a proactive mindset, and a passion for improving patient safety through digital innovation. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working across disciplines to deliver meaningful change, wed love to hear from you.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
SecondmentsApplicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of agile methodology AND/OR knowledge and experience of patient safety science, policy, and/or practice
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential
- Problem ownership: Able to understand and own problems, analysing and contributing to potential solutions, documenting causes and implementing remedie
- Strategic ownership: Focuses on outcomes, and develops bold and ambitions strategies to achieve them, achieving organisational and team buy-in, and translating goals into deliverables
- User focus: Understand user needs and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. Able to translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs and engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. Puts users first and can manage competing priorities
- Understanding constraints: Able to understand and work within the given constraints (including but not limited to technology, policy, regulatory, financial, legal, social user constraints) and to challenge constraints that can be changed. Capable of ensuring compliance against constraints by adapting products and services where needed.
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do. Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of agile methodology AND/OR knowledge and experience of patient safety science, policy, and/or practice
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential
- Problem ownership: Able to understand and own problems, analysing and contributing to potential solutions, documenting causes and implementing remedie
- Strategic ownership: Focuses on outcomes, and develops bold and ambitions strategies to achieve them, achieving organisational and team buy-in, and translating goals into deliverables
- User focus: Understand user needs and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. Able to translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs and engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. Puts users first and can manage competing priorities
- Understanding constraints: Able to understand and work within the given constraints (including but not limited to technology, policy, regulatory, financial, legal, social user constraints) and to challenge constraints that can be changed. Capable of ensuring compliance against constraints by adapting products and services where needed.
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do. Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
Employer details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
Any NHSE Office
Nationally
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
Any NHSE Office
Nationally
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)