Job overview

Join a system-transforming leadership role driving better care for our communities.

We are seeking an ambitious, values-driven leader to take on a critical role in transforming integrated discharge planning across the London Boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich.

As Transformation Lead for the Bexley and Greenwich System Transfer of Care Hub, you will provide strategic and operational leadership in building and embedding a fully integrated, multi-agency discharge function. Working across NHS, Local Authority, and voluntary sectors, you will ensure people return home promptly, safely, and with the right support – in line with Home First and Discharge to Assess principles.

Main duties of the job

This is a high-profile system leadership role. You'll:

• Lead the transformation and daily operations of the integrated Transfer of Care Hub (ToCH) for Bexley and Greenwich
• Drive collaborative working between health, social care, community and VCSE partners
• Improve patient outcomes by reducing discharge delays and ensuring pathway equity
• Develop workforce capabilities, operational resilience, and performance accountability
• Use live data and system metrics to drive change and service improvement
• Represent the system at escalation meetings, incident responses, and strategic forums

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care