Job summary
- Main area
- Administrator
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 229-COR-8277308
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Place, One Herefordshire
Band 8d
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Job overview
Shape the future of health and care in Herefordshire
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an outstanding senior leader to join the One Herefordshire Partnership as Associate Director of Place.
This is a pivotal system leadership role, offering the opportunity to make a lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of the people of Herefordshire. Working across organisational boundaries, you will lead the delivery of place-based priorities that improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and support the development of integrated neighbourhood services.
Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer at Wye Valley NHS Trust and working on behalf of the One Herefordshire Partnership Board, you will play a central role in bringing partners together to deliver transformation programmes, integrated care initiatives and delegated NHS responsibilities.
Main duties of the job
About the role
As Associate Director of Place, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure that partnership ambitions are translated into meaningful improvements for local communities.
You will lead the delivery of major transformation programmes across One Herefordshire, establishing robust governance, programme management and assurance arrangements while working closely with partners from across the NHS, Herefordshire Council, Primary Care Networks, community providers and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
The role also acts as the Senior Responsible Owner for the Memorandum of Understanding between the Integrated Care Board and One Herefordshire Partnership, providing accountability for the delivery of delegated NHS responsibilities and assuring performance, governance and benefits realisation.
Working for our organisation
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Frances Martin, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description/personal specification to view the full range of duties and responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant senior leadership within NHS, local government or wider health and care sector
Skills
Essential criteria
- Place-based partnership working
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alan Dawson
- Job title
- Chief Strategy and Planning Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 364000
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