Job overview
Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead – East or Central
(Band 8a Fixed term)
Join an Outstanding Team and Make a Real Difference!
Are you an inspirational leader with a passion for delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care in the community? We are seeking an Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the Neighbourhood Health Model across localities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an outstanding, forward‑thinking division, where collaboration, innovation and population health are at the heart of everything we do.
Are you ready to take that leap to help us shape the future of integrated community care locally?
If you are motivated by collaboration, innovation and improving care at neighbourhood level, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As the Integrated Neighbourhood Team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary neighbourhood team, working across organisational boundaries to improve outcomes for residents.
You will be instrumental in embedding integrated ways of working, strengthening partnerships with primary care, social care and voluntary sector colleagues, and ensuring care is delivered closer to home whenever possible.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide visible, inclusive leadership to an integrated, multidisciplinary workforce
- Work alongside the Haringey Proactive Care Service Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing development of the Neighbourhood Health Model
- Drive improvements in quality, safe care, population health outcomes and patient experience
- Foster strong collaborative relationships internally and externally with partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector
- Use data, insight and innovation to support continuous improvement and transformation
- Ensure services remain responsive, sustainable and aligned with system priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and personal specification for more details on this post and an opportunity to join our specialist services.
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
Skills
Essential
- High-level interpersonal skills.
- Marketing and negotiation skills.
- Presentation skills.
- Ability to write reports and papers
- Teaching/coaching/facilitation skills.
- Able to assimilate and analyse complex clinical and technical information.
- Ability to communicate information to senior colleagues in multi-disciplinary and multiagency forum.
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
- Ability to anticipate and prioritise competing demands.
- Ability to plan, manage and deliver an agreed change programmes.
- Ability to motivate and lead teams of staff.
Desirable
- Analytical skills in relation to client, organisational and staffing issues.
- Knowledge of project and programme management
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of a wide range of staff management practices including: Appraisal, Disciplinary process, Recruitment, performance management, redeployment and absence management
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance principles and their application
Desirable
- Knowledge of wide range of senior management practices including budgetary management, the consultation process, workforce planning cost pressures and service developments
Experience
Essential
- Management experience, communicating at all levels of the organisation.
- Budgetary management experience and understanding of the current NHS financial regime
- Experience of staff management including: managing recruitment, performance monitoring, and appraisal, induction and mentoring.
- Supporting senior clinicians in service delivery
- Experience of chairing meetings
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and its application to community services
- Experience of negotiating and influencing at operational levels
- Experience of bidding for short term funding streams
- Evidence of leading change management processes.
- Experience within the NHS
Desirable
- Involvement in strategic planning
Qualifications
Essential
- Management / Leadership Training - portfolio
- Evidence of training and/or experience in leadership and other HR issues in an NHS setting
Desirable
- Relevant AHP or nursing Clinical Degree/Diploma with management experience in an NHS setting
- Registration with the HCPC /NMC
- Relevant emergency planning training courses and experience
Aptitude and Disposition
Essential
- Commitment to working jointly with users, practitioners and other agencies to develop high quality services.
- Flexibility and enthusiasm for working within a changing environment.
- Demonstration of leadership qualities with the motivation required for task completion.
- Demonstrate personal alignment with ICARE values
- Demonstrate commitment to staff wellbeing
- Demonstrate commitment to EDI in workplaceomote equality and diversity within the workplace
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This advert is for Integrated Neighbourhood Team Lead with Whittington Health NHS Trust in Wood Green, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAs. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (May be required to work on-call or weekend). The application deadline is 21 Aug 2026.
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