# Head of System Redesign > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-system-redesign/0303fedc-173f-42be-b28f-7e53bc44799b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-system-redesign/0303fedc-173f-42be-b28f-7e53bc44799b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Homerton University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Head of service - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £88,250 - £100,355 pro rata p.a. incl. - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 24 months (Contract end date: 24 months from the start date.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-11T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-28T10:20:39.796Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Hackney/Homerton_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Improvement/Improvement-v8396304 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8396304?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.homerton.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 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. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values - Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity and inclusion ### Education **Essential** - Educated to Master’s degree level in a relevant health, management, or technical field, or equivalent demonstrable senior experience. - 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). **Desirable** - PGCert ### Knowledge **Essential** - Deep, expert knowledge of continuous improvement theory. - Expert knowledge of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and modern measurement for improvement frameworks. **Desirable** - Understanding of health economics and value-based healthcare models. ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience leading large-scale continuous improvement workstreams at a senior level within healthcare or the wider public sector - Experience of presenting to and managing the outputs of Board level committees - Proven experience in direct line management, multi-disciplinary team leadership, and managing complex programme budgets. ### Skills/Abilities **Essential** - Highly developed leadership, negotiation, and influencing skills; able to drive consensus across complex multi-disciplinary clinical and operational teams without direct hierarchical authority. - Highly adept at managing very senior leaders within and beyond the healthcare setting. - Demonstrated very high levels of coaching and facilitation skills; ability to deliver impactful learning programmes from board to floor. ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 652.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=938) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 124.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=937) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10729425) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.