Location
Salary
£88,250 - £100,355 pro rata p.a. incl.
Profession
Head of service
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
11 Nov 2026
Contract Type
Fixed term: 24 months (Contract end date: 24 months from the start date.)
Posted Date
28 Oct 2026
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Job requirements

Essential

12 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Other

    Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values

  • Other

    Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity and inclusion

  • Education

    Educated to Master’s degree level in a relevant health, management, or technical field, or equivalent demonstrable senior experience.

  • Education

    Advanced post-graduate qualification or expert certification in an established Continuous Quality Improvement / System Redesign methodology (e.g. Virginia Mason Production System, IHI Model for Improvement, Design Thinking).

  • Knowledge

    Deep, expert knowledge of continuous improvement theory.

  • Knowledge

    Expert knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and modern measurement for improvement frameworks.

  • Experience

    Extensive experience leading large-scale continuous improvement workstreams at a senior level within healthcare or the wider public sector

  • Experience

    Experience of presenting to and managing the outputs of Board level committees

  • Experience

    Proven experience in direct line management, multi-disciplinary team leadership, and managing complex programme budgets.

  • Skills/Abilities

    Highly developed leadership, negotiation, and influencing skills; able to drive consensus across complex multi-disciplinary clinical and operational teams without direct hierarchical authority.

  • Skills/Abilities

    Highly adept at managing very senior leaders within and beyond the healthcare setting.

  • Skills/Abilities

    Demonstrated very high levels of coaching and facilitation skills; ability to deliver impactful learning programmes from board to floor.

Desirable

2 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Education

    PGCert

  • Knowledge

    Understanding of health economics and value-based healthcare models.

Job overview

The Head of System Redesign will play a crucial part in the delivery of the Trust’s strategy – Our Future Together – providing advanced subject matter expertise to develop the advanced improvement architecture, methodological governance and cross boundary working structures across Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the City and Hackney place-based partnership through the institute for change.

Main duties of the job

  • Act as the definitive expert authority on complex improvement systems thinking and system redesign methodologies across the Trust and wider partnership.
  • Establish and maintain standardised operating procedures, quality management governance, and technical redesign toolkits across the entire directorate footprint.
  • Provide improvement leadership for large-scale service design and pathway transformation initiatives that eliminate fragmentation, reduce unwarranted variation, and optimise patient flow through hospital services and out into the wider healthcare system.
  • Establish cross-sector communities of practice to accelerate the spread of innovation, shared learning, and proven redesign concepts.
  • Lead the develivery of data analysis for improvement at Trust Board, subcommittees and partnership Boards in order to gain consensus and assurance on work in progress.
  • Build and maintain highly effective collaborative alliances with key external stakeholders, including the North East London Integrated Care Board (NEL ICB), Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Local Authorities (London Borough of Hackney and City of London), and voluntary sector partners.
  • Provide visible, compassionate, and inclusive day-to-day leadership and line management as required to direct reports within the portfolio.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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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 System Redesign with Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Head of service role. The advertised salary is £88,250 - £100,355 pro rata p.a. incl.. The contract type is Fixed term: 24 months (Contract end date: 24 months from the start date.). The application deadline is 11 Nov 2026.

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