Creative Health Lead

Main area Neighbourhood Commissioning Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract 24 months (Ffixed term contract or secondment) Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job  

Site New County Hall Town Truro Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Working with colleagues across the system, the Creative Health Lead is responsible for leading the development, co-ordination and delivery of the creative health programme including public consultation and co-production, for a range of neighbourhood health services.

To lead the development and delivery of creative health and engagement strategies to support the delivery of neighbourhood health initiatives including prevention, personalised care and social prescribing programmes.

To work strategically and identify interoperability between work streams and change programmes to maximise reach and potential of creative health strategies.

Proactively and independently develop, implement and evaluate programme creative health and engagement activity and lead creative health change management strategies.

To develop relationships with external stakeholders to ensure creative health strategies are responsive to the needs of the system and communities.

To independently develop creative health delivery and partnership channels and provide specialist advice to programme teams and other stakeholders, acting as creative health specialist at times of change when effective engagement is crucial.

Working with service users and communities to co-produce creative health projects, drawing on research and expert by experience networks to develop effective creative health and engagement strategies.

• Lead a system wide creative health strategy and 24 month delivery plan, with clear governance, priorities, outcomes and a sustainability plan.
• Map current creative health provision, partners, evidence, need and gaps, and establish a practical mechanism for keeping this intelligence current.
• Work with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams to include creative health within neighbourhood plans, pathway development and community based support.
• Use population health information, evidence and community insight to focus activity on people and places most affected by health inequalities, including rural, coastal, island and deprived communities.
• Build durable relationships across the NHS, local government, primary care, social care, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, cultural organisations,…