Deputy Director for Community and Primary Care in London

Deputy Director for Community and Primary Care

Grade: NHS Af C Band 8d. Salary: £100,493 – £114,951 per annum inc HCAS (pro‑rata if part‑time). Contract: Permanent. Hours: 37.5 per week. Site: Brent Civic Centre.

Job Overview

Brent Integrated Care Partnership (Brent ICP) seeks a Deputy Director to lead transformation and operational coordination across multiple health and care organisations.

The role supports Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, delivery of strategic programmes, and partnership with local authorities and NHS providers.

Main Duties of the Job

• Operational coordination and integration
• Support coordination between sectors, partners and INTs to bridge fragmented services.
• Run core integrated functions (e. g. INTs) and support transformation with Place/BPPs.
• Address practical collaboration issues such as workforce planning and interface building.
• Enable sharing and use of real‑time data to deliver holistic, preventative care.
• Support ICBs efforts to provide PHM data and build capacity at regional and Place level.
• Support INTs to target interventions to address health needs and inequalities.
• Leadership and Delivery
• Ensure effective coordination of INTs, with primary care leading with a multidisciplinary team.
• Work with primary care, local authorities and other providers to embed agreed strategies.
• Drive improvement through a test and learn approach.
• Over time, the integrator may become responsible for delegated NHS services as local policy matures.
• Drive in Access and Outcomes
• Use PHM data and local partnerships to identify disparities in care and access.
• Work with VCSE and wider partners to ensure services meet local population needs.
• Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for the post holder will include

• Operational and strategic development and delivery
• Develop and implement strategies and business plans within the assigned work area(s), incorporating borough‑ and sector‑level requirements and inputs from research, and working in conjunction with partner organisations.
• Use deep knowledge of portfolio area to support the identification of opportunities and potential future priorities, and lead the engagement with stakeholders to refine and prioritise delivery plans, including negotiation and management of competing priorities and differences of expert opinion.
• Work with relevant stakeholders, both operational and clinical, to develop appropriate outcome‑based service specifications to inform transformation projects and potential procurement requirements.
• Work closely with Brent Council to enhance healthcare services for Brent residents.
• Lead cross‑functional teams comprising NHS professionals and council staff to ensure a holistic and patient‑centric approach to service delivery.
• Lead on Better Care Fund (BCF) and is responsible for Discharge Funding including winter schemes.
• Lead on the alignment of primary care with community, mental health, acute outreach and VCSE around GP‑registered populations, targeting frailty, high service users, and people stuck between services.
• Ensure that Enhanced Services achievement is optimised and that the ARRS primary care roles are fully rolled out and embedded within Integrated Teams.
• Responsible for the development of Local Enhanced Services.
• Ensure that optimal primary care access is achieved.
• Working closely with the NWL Primary Care Contracting Teams and the NWL Primary Care Collaborative to roll out new service developments at Brent level.
• Analyse and assess performance of programme and project delivery relative to agreed strategic objectives.
• Planning and organisation
• Input into wider organisational and pan‑sector strategies on behalf of the programme/borough, ensuring that key priorities for the post holder’s work area are integrated with and aligned to broader objectives.
• Lead on transforming programmes on behalf of the Brent Partnership.
• Lead the development of policies and procedures for the assigned work area(s) as required, ensuring compliance with broader corporate, organisational and system policies.
• Formulate long‑term strategic plans, involving uncertainty and impact on the organisation.

Develop business plan, strategy for area of activity, and make major contributions to corporate policies and strategy.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.

Experience

• Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including working with a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome.

Skills and Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in London and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
• Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including working with a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome.
• High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
• High level critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrate sound judgement when guidelines may be ambiguous, seeking advice from senior members of the organisation when appropriate.
• Holds the ability to analyse highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.

Analyses performance of area of activity in relation to performance targets, strategic objectives; develop strategies, business plans, advice in areas where expert opinion differs.

• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
• Other
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
• Developed leadership, vision and strategic thinking and planning skills.

Benefits and Employment Terms

Generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles.

Contract is subject to a contractual 13‑week probationary period.

Successful applicants will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Central and North West London Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital/partnership status, race, religion, age, creed, colour, ethnic origin, disability, part‑time working status and any real or suspected HIV/AIDS status.

The Trust has a Valuing Diversity in the Workplace Policy and employees are expected to support this policy and promote a culture that values diversity.

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