Job of the Week: Director of Integration – (6-9 month secondment)

July 29, 2021

Director of Integration – 6-9 month Secondment
VSM Salary Range £125 – £145k per annum

Sandwell Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) leaders are developing new integrated ways of working to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of the Sandwell population, increase the quality of care provided and ensure long term financial sustainability of the Place. The recently adopted Case for Change, produced in partnership with KPMG, sets out the new proposed model of care through which the ICP will improve the way specialist support is delivered in the community to meet these objectives. This programme of work supports the wider NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) ambition for Place-based partnerships to define their Place level strategy by the end of Q2. Our work is being aligned to the 4 core purposes of Integrated Care Systems (ICS) nationally.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) aspire to be the host organisation for the ICP and we will host this key role. The Trust is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Integrated care and improving life chances is our purpose as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality and declining healthy life expectancy.

Our new acute hospital serving Sandwell and West Birmingham, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens next year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities. The new hospital will also keep integration at the heart of our journey, providing an opportunity to design and shape services that are fit for the future and offer exceptional quality of care to our communities.

The Director of Integration will lead the senior leadership team of the partnership, made up of senior colleagues from the statutory organisations, primary care and the voluntary sector, to deliver the recommendations of the Case for Change and to develop and implement the programme of strategic change, so our chosen population outcome measures are met.

Accountable to the ICP Board and also as a member of the SWB executive team and Trust Board, you will be a proven leader in the multi-agency environment, who has ideally worked at or near Board level in provider organisations in either health or social care. You will be conversant with the new strategic context of integration and collaboration as reflected in the health and care white paper.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like an initial discussion about the role then please contact Richard Beeken, Interim Chief Executive Officer by emailing r.beeken@nhs.net

This opportunity is open to employees of any of the Black Country and West Birmingham Integrated Care Partner organisations. If you are interested then please complete the attached Expression of Interest (EOI) Form highlighting your experience (in line with the Person Specification) and suitability for the role and submit this to ruby.stone2@nhs.net by 5pm on Thursday 12 August.

Applications close at 5pm on Thursday 12 August and we would expect to undertake interviews week commencing 30 August.