Delivery Manager - Neighbourhoods

Delivery Manager - Neighbourhoods – Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

London, England, United Kingdom

We are seeking someone who is passionate about integrated neighbourhood working and population health to join us as a Neighbourhoods Delivery Manager in Lewisham Borough.

You will bring a combination of skills and expertise in operational delivery, improvement and project management to help us drive implementation of our Neighbourhoods programme over the next year.

Our Programme Builds On a Range Of Services That Are Already Underway Across Health (primary Care, Secondary Care, Community Services And Mental Health), Social Care And The Community And Voluntary Sector. We Are Currently Focusing On Three Main Pathways:

• Long Term Conditions
• Frailty
• Children with complex needs

In addition to this we are working on organisational development across the borough to consider what our long‑term vision for neighbourhood working is and how we collectively work together to achieve this.

Your role would be varied and involve a mix of service design, data analysis, project management, evaluation, operational delivery and organisational development. Hosted in the Improvement Delivery Team in LGT you would work in a matrix function across all of the organisations in the borough.

The primary base for this role is our Catford office with a minimum expectation of 4 days per week (80% of time spent onsite). As a partnership role there will be a frequent need to travel to and work at other sites.

The Neighbourhoods Delivery Manager will provide leadership to support the delivery of integrated neighbourhood models in Lewisham for frailty, long‑term conditions and children with complex needs. This role will drive the effective implementation of new care models and supporting infrastructure, ensuring collaboration across all system partners and an increase in maturity of the local neighbourhoods model.

The postholder will be responsible for planning, stakeholder management, risk mitigation and performance monitoring to enable the successful delivery of integrated care initiatives at neighbourhood level. They will play a key strategic role linking with neighbourhoods managers and senior leadership to ensure that central infrastructure supports their needs. They will support senior leaders to develop the integrator role for neighbourhood working and track its progression against the national maturity matrix.

The Neighbourhoods Delivery Manager will have line management accountability to the Associate Director – Improvement and Transformation. As this is a system role they will be accountable to Chief Executives across all constituent organisations.

They will work closely with human resources, finance and other support services to ensure plans are delivered within agreed timescales, and will provide updates and high‑level communication to the Divisional Directors for projects and relevant Boards and other system governance forums.

Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches the people we are here for – the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivating a culture of engagement.

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Beckie Burn;

Job title:

Associate Director Improvement and Transformation;
Email address: ;
Telephone number:

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Management and Manufacturing

Hospitals and Health Care