Head of Beyond the Hospital Programme: Sponsorship Available

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Beyond the Hospital is Homerton’s programme for redesigning care out of hospital and into people’s homes and neighbourhoods. It brings together the redesign of the Trust’s community services with the development of the integrated neighbourhood team model across the eight Neighbourhoods in City and Hackney, supporting the neighbourhood health commitments in the NHS 10 Year Plan and delivery of our 2026-2031 strategy, Our Future Together.

We are looking for an experienced transformation leader to design, plan and deliver this programme. You will bring significant experience of transforming community health and care, and the leadership skills to drive delivery through multiple partners, divisions and established teams.

**Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date due to the high volume of applications received.**

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the design, planning and delivery of the Beyond the Hospital Programme across both workstreams.

Key duties include:

    • Leading the redesign of Homerton’s community services, from diagnostic and engagement through co-design to a costed implementation roadmap
    • Building and owning the case for change, using the evidence base to secure agreement across partners
    • Leading Homerton’s contribution to the integrated neighbourhood team model with primary care, ELFT, LB Hackney, City of London Corporation and VCSE partners
    • Directing the external transformation partner, holding the contract to account for quality, pace and value
    • Holding delegated responsibility for the programme budget and reporting on spend and benefits
    • Establishing governance, including the Programme Board and reporting into Trust Leadership Team and the Place Based Partnership
    • Presenting highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, using negotiation and persuasion to overcome barriers to acceptance
    • Leading multi-year strategic planning and writing business cases for investment and service change
    • Line managing the programme team and supporting wider neighbourhood roles across the partnership
    • Ensuring patients and carers are involved throughout, in line with the City and Hackney co-production charter

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

  • Master’s level or equivalent experience in programme management, healthcare management, transformation or service improvement
  • Evidence of ongoing personal development

Desirable

  • Programme/project management qualification or formal training in service improvement methodology

Experience

Essential

  • Significant senior experience leading large-scale, complex transformation in community health and care, including service redesign and workforce change
  • Experience working across organisational boundaries in a complex multi-agency environment, including delegated budget, external contracts and line management
  • Experience of managing large scale programmes and projects, including responsibility for a programme budget
  • Experience of managing external consultancy or supplier contracts -Knowledge and experience of working within the NHS and social care system

Desirable

  • Experience within a place-based partnership or integrated care system, ideally in a diverse inner-city area
  • Skilled in the use of population health management data platforms

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of integrated care policy and neighbourhood health models, including the NHS 10 Year Plan and its implications for community services
  • Knowledge of the NHS 10 Year Plan and its implications for community and neighbourhood services

Desirable

  • Understanding of NHS payment and financial flows in community services

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Building an evidence-based case for change, analysing complex activity, workforce and finance data, and writing business cases
  • Ability to analyse and draw conclusions from complex data and present it clearly to others, including activity, workforce and finance data
  • Ability to plan and deliver strategically over a multi-year horizon, adjusting plans as system priorities, funding and national policy change

Desirable

  • Influencing and negotiating with senior stakeholders across organisations to achieve change

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Demonstrate an understanding of Trust values
  • Commitment and adherence to the Equality Act

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 9 October 2026

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