Head of Delivery - Integrated Care and Transformation Team (ICTT)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £85,431 - £97,148 p.a. inclusive of HCA |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE1 7EU |
| Cwmni: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7760166/196-SMT1783M |
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A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
The Integrated Care Transformation Team (ICTT) work in close collaboration with the ISM Clinical Group, Partnership Southwark, Lambeth Together and other partners in the SEL ICS to lead and deliver transformation and quality improvement programmes. ICTT are a place-based transformation team driving systemic integrated care for both Boroughs. The team is made up of programme and project managers, service development managers, a data analyst, a primary care liaison manager and business support. The team’s portfolio consists of improvement programmes of work to support resilient communities, optimise efficient transfers of care and embed population health principles. The Head of Portfolio will manage the team and its delivery of partnership programmes.
The Head of Delivery for the ICTT will be responsible for leading, managing, delivering and directing the Integrated Care and Transformation team and their work programme. The relationships with internal and external partners will be key for this role; to deliver the Trust and the system priorities associated to integration and the Trust strategy associated to the Health of our Population.
The post-holder needs to be adept at working across departments, levels of the organisation and across the system to lead, inspire, design, and drive transformation and programme management. They will have a high level of autonomy, self-drive, and an ability to direct change initiatives which will achieve the aims of the programme and organisation.
The post holder will lead on building transformation and programme management capability within their programme. Acting as a subject matter expert, they will advise executives and senior leaders to design and lead work to embed transformation through role modelling, training and mentoring. A key focus will be ensuring programmes and teams can clearly articulate the benefits of their work, particularly in relation to system change, improving patient experience and delivering on key performance indicators.
Further information on the role and its requirements can be found in the attached job description and person specification documentation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful Foundation Trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, which joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021, and form the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatments that are available anywhere in the world.
ICTT Head of Delivery:
·Lead the ICT teamand line manage the Senior Programme Managers. Provide support to them and their teams to deliver against set objectives.
· Develop management and operational processes to govern, monitor, track and report on the activities of the Delivery function.
· Design, facilitate and lead ICT team meetings and regular meetings with other stakeholders including external agencies and partners.
· Develop communication tools which serve to engage employees and create transformation and improvement opportunities and conversation at all levels in the Trust.
· Support the ICTT prioritisation process for transformation and improvement opportunities that sit in the pipeline of initiatives.
· Work with others in ICTT and wider transformation teams in GSTT and in the wider system on pre-empting problems and misunderstanding in relation to work of the ICTT.
· Provide senior level transformation, change management and programme management expertise
Staff Management:
· Provide senior leadership within the ICTT and influence transformation and programme management capability across the organisation
· Provide day to day leadership of the team and be a source of subject matter expertise on transformation implementation and programme management across the Trust
· Responsible for the line management of the ICT team, providing supervision, coaching and leadership to the posts aligned to this capability.
· Responsible for conducting staff annual performance appraisals and reviews
· Monitor compliance within the ICT team with Trust-wide staff management policies and procedures and take remedial action with accountable managers where shortfalls occur
Financial Management:
· Ensure that programme related business plans are underpinned by detailed and robust financial plans through budget planning and negotiation of appropriate budgets and delegated areas
· Manages budget for own area of work and multi-stranded project workstreams to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary setting and reports.
· Responsible for transformation and change projects that will be associated with financial benefits
· Manage reporting on budget positions and performance in line with agreed governance arrangements
· Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage
· Deliver and oversee complex recharging arrangements across organisations as required to support the programme
· Act as authorising signatory as required on budgets and sign-offs agreed within the Directorate
Lead for Transformation and Programme Management in ICTT:
· Work effectively and collaboratively with all levels of the organisation and system partners, acting as a subject matter expert.
· Lead on the development and delivery of a comprehensive business management framework for the ICTT. Including; developing a core transformation implementation methodology, programme management methodology, establishing a community of practice, developing supporting learning and development materials, designing and leading events to engage and grow the community of practice
· Lead the development of the transformation and programme management capability within ICTT.
· Build organisational transformation and programme management capability based on sharing information and learning.
· Act as the Transformation expert and champion to lead, manage and embed transformation methodologies across all the team, including and training/mentoring employees on transformation and programme management approaches.
· Lead the ICTT in ensuring regular interpretation of the benefits of ICTT’s work
Delivery Lead for System wide change:
· Take the lead or support others where the complexity and/or cross organisational impact (incl. financial) requires senior and experienced leadership to ensure delivery.
· Provide effective leadership to multiple, long term change programmes, sustainable service development, improvement and transformation of services. This will involve working across Trust and wider boundaries, in new and existing areas of change, complex interdependency mapping.
· This includes identifying and securing commitment to change, engaging and managing stakeholders in order to deliver effectively and influencing existing opinions to sustain change.
· Lead and work with others to understand and track complex interdependencies and delays between different parts of services or programme.
· Influence and direct staff allocated to work on particular programmes, ensuring they meet expected levels of performance. Provide direction and ensure that all ICT team staff have the necessary skills to be successful in their roles.
· Have direct contact with patient and service user representatives where appropriate to ensure Delivery initiatives are delivered with coproduction and collaboration at their core.
· Responsible for managing and accessing complex range of data and making informed recommendations which are focussed on outcomes that meet external and internal customers’ and patient needs.
· Design innovative and workable approaches to gathering information and data collection systems. This will include information gathering where data is difficult to get and interpret.
· Use data-driven presentations to challenge existing work practices and beliefs for varying audiences.
· Produce written documentation, including status reports, information/data/reports as required for service and clinical management up to Executive level, bids for funding and explanations of technical and complex issues. Ensure communication is appropriate for target audiences. Make recommendations and present findings at all levels within and external to the organisation.
· Responsible for the development of solutions that meet the specification of requirements.
· Contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust’s strategy and policies and ensure that the ICTT supports the delivery of national NHS requirements.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Feb 2026
The Integrated Care Transformation Team (ICTT) work in close collaboration with the ISM Clinical Group, Partnership Southwark, Lambeth Together and other partners in the SEL ICS to lead and deliver transformation and quality improvement programmes. ICTT are a place-based transformation team driving systemic integrated care for both Boroughs. The team is made up of programme and project managers, service development managers, a data analyst, a primary care liaison manager and business support. The team’s portfolio consists of improvement programmes of work to support resilient communities, optimise efficient transfers of care and embed population health principles. The Head of Portfolio will manage the team and its delivery of partnership programmes.
The Head of Delivery for the ICTT will be responsible for leading, managing, delivering and directing the Integrated Care and Transformation team and their work programme. The relationships with internal and external partners will be key for this role; to deliver the Trust and the system priorities associated to integration and the Trust strategy associated to the Health of our Population.
The post-holder needs to be adept at working across departments, levels of the organisation and across the system to lead, inspire, design, and drive transformation and programme management. They will have a high level of autonomy, self-drive, and an ability to direct change initiatives which will achieve the aims of the programme and organisation.
The post holder will lead on building transformation and programme management capability within their programme. Acting as a subject matter expert, they will advise executives and senior leaders to design and lead work to embed transformation through role modelling, training and mentoring. A key focus will be ensuring programmes and teams can clearly articulate the benefits of their work, particularly in relation to system change, improving patient experience and delivering on key performance indicators.
Further information on the role and its requirements can be found in the attached job description and person specification documentation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful Foundation Trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, which joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021, and form the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatments that are available anywhere in the world.
ICTT Head of Delivery:
·Lead the ICT teamand line manage the Senior Programme Managers. Provide support to them and their teams to deliver against set objectives.
· Develop management and operational processes to govern, monitor, track and report on the activities of the Delivery function.
· Design, facilitate and lead ICT team meetings and regular meetings with other stakeholders including external agencies and partners.
· Develop communication tools which serve to engage employees and create transformation and improvement opportunities and conversation at all levels in the Trust.
· Support the ICTT prioritisation process for transformation and improvement opportunities that sit in the pipeline of initiatives.
· Work with others in ICTT and wider transformation teams in GSTT and in the wider system on pre-empting problems and misunderstanding in relation to work of the ICTT.
· Provide senior level transformation, change management and programme management expertise
Staff Management:
· Provide senior leadership within the ICTT and influence transformation and programme management capability across the organisation
· Provide day to day leadership of the team and be a source of subject matter expertise on transformation implementation and programme management across the Trust
· Responsible for the line management of the ICT team, providing supervision, coaching and leadership to the posts aligned to this capability.
· Responsible for conducting staff annual performance appraisals and reviews
· Monitor compliance within the ICT team with Trust-wide staff management policies and procedures and take remedial action with accountable managers where shortfalls occur
Financial Management:
· Ensure that programme related business plans are underpinned by detailed and robust financial plans through budget planning and negotiation of appropriate budgets and delegated areas
· Manages budget for own area of work and multi-stranded project workstreams to ensure best value for money, including signing off invoices, monitoring expenditure and providing budgetary setting and reports.
· Responsible for transformation and change projects that will be associated with financial benefits
· Manage reporting on budget positions and performance in line with agreed governance arrangements
· Actively monitor expenditure against budget and address problems at an early stage
· Deliver and oversee complex recharging arrangements across organisations as required to support the programme
· Act as authorising signatory as required on budgets and sign-offs agreed within the Directorate
Lead for Transformation and Programme Management in ICTT:
· Work effectively and collaboratively with all levels of the organisation and system partners, acting as a subject matter expert.
· Lead on the development and delivery of a comprehensive business management framework for the ICTT. Including; developing a core transformation implementation methodology, programme management methodology, establishing a community of practice, developing supporting learning and development materials, designing and leading events to engage and grow the community of practice
· Lead the development of the transformation and programme management capability within ICTT.
· Build organisational transformation and programme management capability based on sharing information and learning.
· Act as the Transformation expert and champion to lead, manage and embed transformation methodologies across all the team, including and training/mentoring employees on transformation and programme management approaches.
· Lead the ICTT in ensuring regular interpretation of the benefits of ICTT’s work
Delivery Lead for System wide change:
· Take the lead or support others where the complexity and/or cross organisational impact (incl. financial) requires senior and experienced leadership to ensure delivery.
· Provide effective leadership to multiple, long term change programmes, sustainable service development, improvement and transformation of services. This will involve working across Trust and wider boundaries, in new and existing areas of change, complex interdependency mapping.
· This includes identifying and securing commitment to change, engaging and managing stakeholders in order to deliver effectively and influencing existing opinions to sustain change.
· Lead and work with others to understand and track complex interdependencies and delays between different parts of services or programme.
· Influence and direct staff allocated to work on particular programmes, ensuring they meet expected levels of performance. Provide direction and ensure that all ICT team staff have the necessary skills to be successful in their roles.
· Have direct contact with patient and service user representatives where appropriate to ensure Delivery initiatives are delivered with coproduction and collaboration at their core.
· Responsible for managing and accessing complex range of data and making informed recommendations which are focussed on outcomes that meet external and internal customers’ and patient needs.
· Design innovative and workable approaches to gathering information and data collection systems. This will include information gathering where data is difficult to get and interpret.
· Use data-driven presentations to challenge existing work practices and beliefs for varying audiences.
· Produce written documentation, including status reports, information/data/reports as required for service and clinical management up to Executive level, bids for funding and explanations of technical and complex issues. Ensure communication is appropriate for target audiences. Make recommendations and present findings at all levels within and external to the organisation.
· Responsible for the development of solutions that meet the specification of requirements.
· Contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust’s strategy and policies and ensure that the ICTT supports the delivery of national NHS requirements.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Feb 2026