Job summary
- Main area
- General Practice
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (1.0 WTE)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-SMT1737
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Civic Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £82,462 - £93,773 p.a. inc HCA- (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of General Practice Integrated Development
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Head of General Practice Integrated Development is a key role in delivering Lambeth transformational change programme, working alongside our Primary Care system leaders to engender change and provide hands on support that prepares, transitions and supports General Practice to develop an organisational and governance structure that ensures Primary Care can fully participate with and implement our integration at place agenda. This at-scale General Practice organisation will play a pivotal role both in supporting resilient General Practice as well as influencing and delivering on the role of General Practice with integrated neighbourhood team working.
Interviews expected w/c 11th August
Main duties of the job
Lambeth Together is an integrated local care partnership helping Lambeth residents have better access to health and care so they can lead happier, healthier lives. The post holder will develop effective strategy and operational plans for implementing the Primary Care Development Programme across Lambeth, working closely with colleagues across the local health economy.
Working for our organisation
Lambeth has a proven track record of developing system level change – through our Lambeth Together Partnership and the Delivery Alliances, we continue to focus on population groups and health issues where we will work together to improve health and wellbeing.
Our Delivery Alliances are:
- The Living Well Network Alliance – focused supporting adults in Lambeth who are experiencing mental illness or distress.
- The Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Alliance – focused on improving the health and wellbeing of adults by working together in local neighbourhoods.
- The Children and Young People Alliance – focus on supporting children and young people in Lambeth to grow up healthy and happy.
This postholder will work within the Primary Care and Transformation Team, who are responsible for transforming Primary Care Medical services beyond national core contracts, and the Alliances who are responsible for bringing together partners and people with ‘lived experience’ to plan and manage programmes and projects that will join up services, improve health and address inequalities in health across Lambeth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Vision
· Develop and communicate the vision for primary care operating at scale and in an integrated way with system partners
Strategy, Programme, and Plans
· Responsible for delivering a change programme that empowers, engenders and prepares General Practice, the GP Federation and Clinical system
leaders to realise their contributions to Neighbourhood Integration and Strengthening General Practice ambitions.
- Oversee the Primary Care contribution to the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) in Lambeth, working in partnership with health and care partners. This will require facilitating clinicians, managers, and leaders across partner organisations to provide innovative solutions for long-term sustainable health and care delivery of services in the community that can be operationalised.
· Drive the organisational development for an at-scale General Practice provider organisation that can support the transformation of primary care, e.g. aligning national priorities to support the sustainability of General Practice in Lambeth.
· Report the progress of the Programme, including milestones and outcomes, to the Lambeth Together Primary Care Commissioning Committee (LTPCCC), Primary Care Transformation Delivery and Operational Group (PCTODG), and the Lambeth Together Care Partnership Board (LTCPB)
· Provide expertise to support the development of Lambeth’s model for local integrated care – Lambeth Together and alliance development, with a robust infrastructure that enables all parts of the local health and care system, including general practice to work together effectively as integrated networks of providers of care.
Communication and Stakeholders
Ensure highly effective, responsive local communication and stakeholder involvement and engagement
Person specification
Knowledge / qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent with additional in depth professional knowledge in own discipline.
- Evidence of ongoing personal and Professional development.
- Experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
- Programme Management qualification or equivalent experience with comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools, such as Prince 2.
- Significant experience and understanding of performance and change management, business planning, budget setting and contracting processes, in a health setting.
- Significant experience of working with General Practice and understanding of primary care commissioning, and PCN development.
- Knowledge and experience of NHS Contracts and Contract management processes, and Performance Management at a senior level.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills to effectively deliver complex and often sensitive or contentious information persuasively to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation, often at a very senior level.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including persuasion and negotiation, conflict resolution and management, with the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels.
- The ability to analyse complex issues, to think and plan to achieve both tactical and strategic objectives, and to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures.
- Demonstrates high attention to detail.
- A collaborative management style, which recognises and values personal contributions and agenda and encourages team working.
- Regularly undertakes research and development, such as surveys and evidence review, to apply learnings in Lambeth
- The skills to evaluate and learn from outcomes, with a clear commitment to innovation, learning and improvement.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior audience.
- Significant experience of working with and manipulating quantitative and qualitative data, producing reports, and data analysis.
- Significant experience of business planning and business case development including robust data and evaluation procedures.
- Significant experience of managing the delivery and improvement of services within a complex and diverse organisation and / or across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of supporting the development of strategies to meet changing organisational needs. Experience of inter-agency working and the development of joint projects.
- Experience of organisational design, development of HR, finance and other corporate functions
- Experience of managing and delivering programmes and projects, including the ability to implement, evaluate and modify as necessary.
- Experience of policy or proposal development.
- Experience of managing, motivating, and developing a team and able to lead a team to achieve objectives
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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
- Anna Marcus
- Job title
- Associate Director of Primary and Community Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
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