Executive Lead for Neighbourhoods, Health & Care
| Posting date: | 01 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2026 |
| Location: | Rochdale, OL16 1XU |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75812426 |
Summary
This is a fixed term 12-month contract linked to specific external funding by the BCF Grant.
Lead System Change. Improve Lives. Shape the Future of Neighbourhood Care.
Rochdale Borough Council is seeking an exceptional leader to take on the role of Executive Lead for Neighbourhood Health & Care. This is a pivotal system wide leadership role that sits at the heart of integrated health and care transformation.
This is a unique opportunity to drive a step change in how services are designed and delivered locally bringing partners together to improve outcomes, tackle inequalities, and embed prevention and early intervention at scale.
About the Role:
As Executive Lead, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across the whole system, working across the NHS, local authority, and voluntary and community sector to design and deliver neighbourhood-based models of care. Local knowledge and experience of working in or with these partners would be an advantage.
You Will:
- Act as the senior system leader and champion for neighbourhood working across the borough.
- Lead the design and delivery of integrated, person centred, community-based services that improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities.
- Build and sustain strong partnerships across primary care, community services, social care, housing, and VCSE partners.
- Drive transformation programmes, ensuring measurable improvements in access, quality, and population health.
- Shape how resources are aligned and deployed to shift investment towards prevention and early intervention.
This role is critical to delivering a more coherent, integrated and sustainable system, moving beyond fragmented approaches to truly neighbourhood-based care.
This role has been created to provide the leadership capacity needed to:
- Align system partners and reduce fragmentation
- Improve outcomes for residents through earlier intervention and coordinated care
- Deliver financial sustainability through prevention led approaches
- Strengthen community engagement and co-production
- Accelerate delivery of integrated care and neighbourhood health priorities
We are looking for a credible, visible, and collaborative system leader with:
- Significant senior/executive leadership experience in health, social care, local government or integrated systems
- A strong track record of delivering complex, multiple partner transformation programmes
- Experience of developing neighbourhood or place-based models of care
- Deep understanding of population health, prevention and health inequalities
- The ability to influence, align and lead across organisational boundaries without direct authority
You will be an excellent communicator and relationship builder, able to work confidently with executive leaders, clinicians, elected members, and communities.
Our Values
We are proud of the difference we make, passionate about our communities, and pioneering in our approach. We are looking for someone who embodies these values and can lead with integrity, inclusivity, and compassion.
Additional Information
- This is a 12-month fixed term opportunity, initially funded through a grant with a review aligned to future funding availability
- The role operates across system partners and requires flexible, collaborative working.
- This is a high-impact leadership role with significant visibility at place and system level.
Join Us
If you are passionate about improving outcomes, tackling inequalities and leading system-wide change, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and help shape the future of neighbourhood health and care in Rochdale.
How to Apply:
To apply please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification.
Please include reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.
Please ensure you anonymise your CV and supporting statement.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
For internal candidates approval for secondment should be obtained from your Service Director (or nominated representative) before applying for this post.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer a sponsorship for this role at this stage.