Band 8a Strategy & Partnerships Manager
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 per annum inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | Romford, RM7 0AG |
| Company: | Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7780189/162-7470-CORP-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.
We are looking for a self motivated and driven Strategy & Partnerships Manager to play a key role in shaping the future of our organisation and the health outcomes of the communities we serve.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across a wide network of internal and external partners, helping to design innovative approaches that improve care, reduce inequalities and strengthen collaboration across Barking, Havering and Redbridge.
You will support the development of strategic plans, lead complex projects, and provide high-quality advice to senior colleagues.
A key part of the role is turning evidence, data and insight into practical action, helping teams to identify opportunities for improvement and supporting them to deliver change.
You will build strong relationships across the Trust, local Place partnerships and the wider North East London system, acting as an ambassador for long-term strategic thinking.
We are seeking someone who is analytically strong, intellectually curious and confident working in fast-moving environments. Excellent communication and influencing skills are essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively and lead discussions with diverse stakeholders to improve outcomes for patients and local communities.
If you want to join a team that are creating a culture of innovation and a movement for change and you are hopeful, helpful, honest and humble then we want to hear from you.
Interview date will be 4th March 2026
The Strategy Team play an important role in working flexibly across the two main functions of the Strategy and Partnership Team:
• Ambitious and creative thinking – using well-developed analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and an understanding of “what works” to support ongoing strategic design development in the Trust and support emerging priority strategic projects
• Providing high quality design support and advice to colleagues across the organisation, working with them to develop their own local strategic plans that align with the Trust, Place and System strategies
In addition to these functions, strategy team members play a very integral and important role in building relationships across the Organisation, Acute Provider Collaboratives (APC), Community Health Collaboratives (CHC), Place and Integrated Systems within North East London (NEL). The Strategy & Partnerships Team are ambassadors for strategic long-term thinking and proactively seeking opportunities to further design and embed the strategy throughout the organisation, and support Trust colleagues to further develop their own strategic skills. The Strategy & Partnerships Team is a small but high-profile function within the Trust, and all team members will need to be skilled, competent and confident in communicating and working with senior colleagues from across the organisation and the wider partnerships in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a newelectronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have beenrated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of theNorth East London Cancer Alliance.
We run aWomen’s Health Hub in Ilford; anAgeing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospital and atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many canwork flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wage employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured inthis film.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Louise Lucy Glavin, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 Ext. 5936. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Feb 2026
We are looking for a self motivated and driven Strategy & Partnerships Manager to play a key role in shaping the future of our organisation and the health outcomes of the communities we serve.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across a wide network of internal and external partners, helping to design innovative approaches that improve care, reduce inequalities and strengthen collaboration across Barking, Havering and Redbridge.
You will support the development of strategic plans, lead complex projects, and provide high-quality advice to senior colleagues.
A key part of the role is turning evidence, data and insight into practical action, helping teams to identify opportunities for improvement and supporting them to deliver change.
You will build strong relationships across the Trust, local Place partnerships and the wider North East London system, acting as an ambassador for long-term strategic thinking.
We are seeking someone who is analytically strong, intellectually curious and confident working in fast-moving environments. Excellent communication and influencing skills are essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively and lead discussions with diverse stakeholders to improve outcomes for patients and local communities.
If you want to join a team that are creating a culture of innovation and a movement for change and you are hopeful, helpful, honest and humble then we want to hear from you.
Interview date will be 4th March 2026
The Strategy Team play an important role in working flexibly across the two main functions of the Strategy and Partnership Team:
• Ambitious and creative thinking – using well-developed analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and an understanding of “what works” to support ongoing strategic design development in the Trust and support emerging priority strategic projects
• Providing high quality design support and advice to colleagues across the organisation, working with them to develop their own local strategic plans that align with the Trust, Place and System strategies
In addition to these functions, strategy team members play a very integral and important role in building relationships across the Organisation, Acute Provider Collaboratives (APC), Community Health Collaboratives (CHC), Place and Integrated Systems within North East London (NEL). The Strategy & Partnerships Team are ambassadors for strategic long-term thinking and proactively seeking opportunities to further design and embed the strategy throughout the organisation, and support Trust colleagues to further develop their own strategic skills. The Strategy & Partnerships Team is a small but high-profile function within the Trust, and all team members will need to be skilled, competent and confident in communicating and working with senior colleagues from across the organisation and the wider partnerships in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a newelectronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have beenrated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of theNorth East London Cancer Alliance.
We run aWomen’s Health Hub in Ilford; anAgeing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospital and atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many canwork flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wage employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured inthis film.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Louise Lucy Glavin, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 Ext. 5936. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Feb 2026
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