Job overview
The City and Hackney Place Based Partnership is seeking a Director to lead its development and drive delivery of its strategic objectives including furthering the development of our neighbourhoods model
This is an exciting role charged with leading local health and care system partners into an accelerated phase of care transformation, integration, and service improvement for the residents of the City of London and Hackney.
The City and Hackney Place-based partnership is a collaborative that comprises the City of London Corporation, the London Borough of Hackney, Homerton Healthcare FT, East London NHS FT, City and Hackney Integrated Primary Care, representation from the C&H Charity and Voluntary Sector Leadership Group, along with lay and clinical leaders, which takes responsibility for:
- Working with local residents and communities to improve their health and wellbeing,
- addressing longstanding inequalities, and
- providing high quality, integrated and sustainable health and care
Main duties of the job
- The Partnership Director will be responsible for supporting the Place-based partnership to deliver a focused programme of work to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of people living in City and Hackney. Much of this will be delivered through a neighbourhoods approach.
- They will also support the ongoing development of the partnership in readiness for new contracting forms that can further enable delivery of our local vision.
- The City and Hackney Partnership Director will be employed by Homerton Healthcare but will work on behalf of the local partnership and will be accountable to the City and Hackney Partnership Board.
There is a long legacy of partnership working across City and Hackney which has evolved through maturing relationships and an increasingly aligned approach to population health and health inequalities across partner organisations. A central tenet of this approach has been recognising the opportunity from neighbourhood working to enable a left shit and deliver more integrated and preventative care. We are in the process of refreshing our partnership governance and ways of working in order to enable delivery of our ambitions for neighbourhoods and to support readiness for new contracting and system forms.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of Trust Values
Skills
Essential
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner; assessing options and drawing appropriate conclusions
- Effective leadership skills working within a large, complex system
- Able to plan, develop, maintain, and monitor innovative initiatives and services
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed understanding of the public sector
- Detailed knowledge of good operational practice, transformation, and change management
Experience
Essential
- Currently operating at senior management level
- Experience of working in the NHS or healthcare
- Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse team
- Experience of managing and delivering large scale projects
- Experience of managing a substantial budget and strategic financial planning over a multi-year period
- Significant experience of working in an NHS or local authority delivery or commissioning role
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
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This advert is for City and Hackney Partnership Director with Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 9 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £121,528 - £138,529 p.a. inc.. The contract type is Fixed term: 24 months (End date TBC). The application deadline is 30 Aug 2026.
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