Programme Lead, Community Estate Development and Partnership

Job overview

Are you a visionary, values-led senior leader with a passion for transforming health estates to support modern, integrated care?

As Programme Lead for Community Estate Development & Partnerships, you will play a pivotal role in reshaping our physical infrastructure across primary, community, and mental health services in Dorset. Working across organisational boundaries, you will drive the expansion of healthcare services out of hospitals and directly into local communities, developing an agile, modern health estate that enables new models of care and delivers maximum value for our population.

This high-profile Band 8c role requires exceptional strategic influence, commercial acumen, and partnership-building skills. You will collaborate closely with Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Local Authorities, the Integrated Care Board (ICB), and acute partners to unlock estate opportunities, optimize assets, and deliver multi-agency capital transformation.

Please note in-person interviews are planned to take place w/c 7th September 2026 - actual date will be confirmed in interview invite - location of interview is being planned to take place at Unit 4, The Omega Centre, Sandford Lane, Wareham, BH20 4DY

Main duties of the job

If you are a dynamic senior leader capable of navigating complexity, inspiring teams, and delivering outstanding care, we would love to hear from you. If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact either;

David Hambridge - Joint Deputy Director of Estates & Facilities

07971 676363

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David McLaughlin - Director of Estates & Facilities

07385 687120

Strategic System Transformation: Lead the strategic development of our community and primary care estate in alignment with Trust priorities, ICB system plans, and national strategy (including the Fuller Stocktake vision for integrated neighbourhood hubs).

Primary Care & System Partnerships: Act as the strategic link between the Trust and primary care, fostering collaborative relationships with GP practices, PCNs, and local authorities to identify joint estate opportunities and synergies.

Program Leadership & Delivery: Oversee the conversion of strategic estate plans into robust, high-value delivery programmes from initial business case through to operational enablement.

Asset & Value Optimisation: Evaluate and modernise the estate footprint to support new clinical models, ensure best value for public money, and improve accessibility for service users and carers.

Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong, trusted relationships across all organisational levels, ensuring clinical teams, community stakeholders, and system partners are actively engaged in estate design and utilisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.

All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact dhc.wideningparticipation@nhs.net

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.