Integration Programme Director Kingston upon Thames
Job description
Across Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KHFT) and Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH), our joint ambition is for our Places, Services and People to ‘Thrive’; encapsulating our response as an anchor institution at Place, with a responsibility to embrace our wider role in addressing the wider determinants of health and wellbeing for the populations that we serve. Our strategic ambition is, both aspirational and realistic, to address the sustainability challenge that the NHS faces. Never has it been more important to address our environmental and social responsibilities, to take action to protect the environment and contribute to the wellbeing of future generations. We see organisational merger as a key enabler to delivering our ambition and we are now seeking an energetic, dynamic and erudite lead to drive forward our integration plans; from Full Business Case stage to completion, and beyond. With such an ambitious transformational change agenda, this is an exciting time to join our well-respected organisations. Together: We Nurture, We Grow, We Thrive As Integration Programme Director, you will lead a series of integration work streams in designing our new, integrated organisation. You will report, via the Deputy Chief Executive, on progress with regard to the transaction to the joint Executive Team and Trust Board. You will steer our organisations from ‘Strategic Case’ stage, all the way through to Full Business Case and will lead the development of the Post-Transaction Integration Plan (PTIP). To be successful, you will need to positively influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on the benefits of our transaction for the populations we serve, the staff we employ and for the Integrated Care System that we operate as part of. We are particularly looking for candidates who have past experience of delivering mergers or acquisitions in the NHS; although will consider exceptional candidates who have such experience gained in other sectors. Candidates must have Executive-level gravitas and leadership capabilities. They must be excellent leaders of people and teams, with an inspirational approach to transformational design and delivery. Working for HRCH We provide community health services for around 523,000 people in the boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond. We provides the same services for the borough of Kingston via a service contract with Your Healthcare, a Community Interest Company. HRCH also serves a wider population across south-west London with a range of more specialist services. Working for KHFT Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital supporting around 350,000 people in Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. It provides care to over half a million people each year, and have 450 inpatient beds, an emergency department, urgent treatment centre, and a busy maternity service. The Trust is rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, and we employ over 3,500 staff, who are supported by around 300 staff employed by our estates and facilities contractor ISS. We also have over 350 volunteers who support us. *****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role***** Please click here for our Recruitment pack: https://kingstonhospital.pagetiger.com/donycvx/1
