Strategy Transformation Lead

Job summary

This post is only open for applications for internal applicants for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust

NHS Band 8b Salary: £66,582 - £77,368 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose

• To provide service redesign expertise and transformational change leadership to support delivery and oversee significant programmes of work.
• To lead, develop, and manage a portfolio of work, providing specialised programme management expertise to ensure the successful delivery of desired outcomes, goals, and ambitions across both organisations.
• You will engage with the respective clinical workstream leads, their teams and oversight groups, to ensure a robust change management approach is in place to progress and successfully deliver transformation programmes.
• To ensure that programme and project plans are aligned to both organisational strategies and the group clinical strategy.
• It is essential that the post holder is able to work across the strategy portfolio to ensure alignment with strategic planning.
• You will need to work closely with a range of internal and external partners including Integrated Care Board, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and social care to track progress, slippage, risk and delivery of spend and projected spend against the transformational programmes.
• To work closely with, and provide cross-cover and support to, the Strategic Planning Lead, ensuring business continuity and the effective deployment of capacity across the Strategy and Planning annual work cycle.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Details

• Date posted: 05 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8b
• Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: REF2532W
• Job locations: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub, Block 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 3EN, United Kingdom, St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for developing, evaluating, and implementing service design or redesign initiatives for transformation programmes, ensuring alignment with strategy and medium-term operating plan requirements.
• To provide change management guidance and expertise to clinical and operational project leads, ensuring that all programme activities follow appropriate governance routes, developing plans, identifying outputs and ensuring best value.
• Support the deployment of the Trust(s) strategies via the agreed approach, underpinned by Delivering Excellence.
• Establish, maintain and support the leadership of the routines associated with the key attributes of strategy deployment: Annual breakthrough objectives (areas of improvement priority), Longer term Strategic Priorities (significant strategic programmes, that cannot be resolved through daily focus and are preventing progress towards the Trust True Norths), and Trust-wide projects (those projects that will directly contribute to the priorities of the Trust, and often require wide ranging resourcing.
• Lead on the development of the supporting reports and oversight arrangements for each element of the deployment, with outputs to be presented via the Chief Strategy Officer into Trust Leadership Teams and with Executive leads into Trust Board.
• Provide leadership as required to the strategy portfolio team, in supporting Programme Management to the Strategic Priorities, and project support (as necessary and agreed), to Executive and TLT SROs.
• Ensure all stakeholders & Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) are supported in the setting of key milestones, management of risks and benefits realisation. Assist project leads in reviewing and reporting progress against plans, risks and issues.
• Provide line management and leadership for the Strategy team.
• Demonstrate high level of computer-literacy including creation and use of spreadsheets, databases, charts, reports and data analysis in formats that will enable informed decision-making, working with a high degree of accuracy.
• Occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions, or occasional requirement to use road transportation in emergency situations, or frequent requirement to use road transportation, or frequent requirement to work outdoors, or requirement to use Visual Display Unit equipment more or less continuously on most days.

For full job details and person specification please refer to enclosed job description.