Job requirements
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Proven experience working across health and care sectors to deliver integrated programmes and place-based solutions and implement policy across whole organisations and across organisational boundaries.
- Experience
Experience leading transformation programmes or system change in partnership settings.
- Experience
Experience engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to shape and deliver strategic priorities.
- Experience
Experience using data and population health insights to drive transformation and reduce inequalities.
- Experience
Experience of involving service users, residents or communities in design and decision-making.
- Skills, knowledge & abilities
Understanding of Integrated Care Systems (ICS), Place-Based Partnerships (PBP), and relevant national NHS policies.
- Skills, knowledge & abilities
Excellent interpersonal skills – able to influence, negotiate, and communicate (written and oral) across diverse audiences and stakeholders.
- Skills, knowledge & abilities
Skilled in stakeholder engagement, co-production, and relationship-building across organisational boundaries.
- Skills, knowledge & abilities
Respects diversity, values the contributions of others, and demonstrates cultural competence in multi-agency settings.
- Education, qualifications & training
Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Education, qualifications & training
Senior level experience acquired through training to Masters (postgraduate) level or equivalent experience
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education, qualifications & training
Postgraduate qualification to be in public sector leadership, system transformation, or health management.
- Education, qualifications & training
Professional Programme/Project Management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP).
Job overview
Due to the promotion of our current post-holder, an exciting and rare opportunity has arisen to join the Strategy and Partnerships Team at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
As our Head of Place-Based Partnerships, you will play a pivotal role in driving collaboration across Berkshire West, working with partners across the NHS, local government, voluntary sector and wider community to deliver meaningful improvements for patients, populations and staff.
This is a high-profile leadership role at the heart of system working, offering the opportunity to influence strategic priorities, develop innovative partnerships and help shape the future of integrated health and care services across the region.
If you are looking for a role where you can influence at scale, work with inspiring partners and help shape the future of healthcare across Berkshire West, we would love to hear from you.
Interview date: Thursday 19 November 2026.
Main duties of the job
Please see the full Job Description for the main duties of the role.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead the Trust's approach to place-based partnership working, driving delivery of our strategic priorities in collaboration with colleagues and partners across Berkshire West.
- Develop and deliver ambitious cross-organisational programmes that improve population health outcomes, tackle health inequalities and support the delivery of the Trust's Strategy, Strategic Transformation Programmes and Berkshire West Integrated Care Partnership priorities.
- Build and strengthen influential relationships across organisational boundaries, providing visible leadership and becoming a trusted partner within the wider health and care system.
- Champion collaboration and innovation, bringing people together around shared goals and translating strategic ambition into tangible outcomes for local communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full Job Description document attached for the main duties of the role.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Head of Place-Based Partnerships with Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in Reading, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Head of service role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Nov 2026.
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