Director of Partnership Delivery & Sustainability

Job summary

We are recruiting a Director of Partnership Delivery and Sustainability who will lead and hold overall responsibility for the Partnership Delivery & Sustainability Teams and functions in Southwark and associated strategic framework for delivery of programmes that meets Partnership Southwark's strategies and priorities as well as the ICB agreed plans and priorities for delegated primary care, both core and at scale population provision aligned with wider Partnership Southwark ambitions. Develop and lead multi-functional staff groups, creating greater synergies and opportunities for service integration and efficiencies. Devise strategies for deeper service integration and collaboration with external stakeholders and partners. Provide advice and support the Place Executive and strategic leadership on achievement of objectives working as part of the local care partnership and Southwark senior leadership team.

To support the Place Executive in their convening role of Partnership Southwark to enable and facilitate impactful change, deliver new models of care, and to work across the partnership to make best use of system resources to achieve shared objectives for the benefit of residents.

Main duties of the job

Duties and Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for local planning working collaboratively with partners and across SEL and for designing programmes of work to deliver the plans (such as via Health & Care Plan and place operating plan) ensuring alignment with overall place strategies such as Health & Wellbeing Strategy and Southwark 2030 and expectations of the wider SEL ICS through the ICB's Joint Forward View and ICP Strategic priorities. Ensure robust governance arrangements for proactive monitoring and reporting overall progress and outcomes, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as needed across the Director's portfolio.
• Be a collaborative role model across the system using dispersed leadership to develop and implement integrated models of care and neighbourhood approaches to build trust and relationships between residents, community groups and statutory services to positively impact on people's lives and reduce systemic health inequalities.
• Lead effective stakeholder management maintaining strong and effective relationships, liaising with the relevant ICB, Council and provider senior teams, clinical and care professional leaders, neighbouring place counterparts across SEL, local oversight and scrutiny committees, health and wellbeing board, Healthwatch, VCSE and others as required to deliver on the ambitions and priorities of the partnership.

Please see the job details for further duties of the post.

About us

Southwark is an exciting place to work, live and learn. Home to renowned icons like Tower Bridge and theatrical delights such as the Globe theatre; Southwark is a thriving cosmopolitan part of London.

Southwark has around 307,600 residents with a rich social and ethnic mix, including large Black and LGBT+ communities. However, like many other cities, affluence and poverty at times live side by side. There have been big improvements in health outcomes in recent decades. Life expectancy has increased, while child mortality and teenage pregnancy have declined.

But despite these positive milestones, some residents are still struggling. Over a third in Southwark live in areas with the highest levels of deprivation in England. These inequalities continues to widen health outcomes.

With demand for health and care services continuing to rise, it is imperative for organisations, communities and people to find a different way of working and relating together in a more consistent way to support and meet the needs of local people, that is sustainable and uses the wealth of our local assets.

Partnership Southwark offers a vehicle to facilitate a new way, more collective way forward.