Head of Partnerships and Engagement

HCRG Care Group

The closing date is 22 January 2025

Job summary

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to fill the role ofHead of Partnerships and Engagement. This is a leadership position responsible for driving strategic networking and partnership development across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire. As Head of Partnerships and Engagement, you will lead the creation, implementation, and monitoring of our partnership and engagement strategy. This strategy will be grounded in insight, population health intelligence, and best practices, aiming to improve patient outcomes across the region.

In this role, you will report to the Regional Director and work closely with the broader leadership team, playing a critical part in reducing health inequalities and enhancing patient outcomes. You will lead the efforts to improve patient and service user access to care, optimise resources, and deliver the BSW (BaNES, Swindon, and Wiltshire) transformation plan.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the partnership strategy is closely aligned with local health needs and service priorities. This includes using population health intelligence to guide decisions, ensuring that services are responsive to the communities needs, and continuously improving outcomes. A key focus of your role will be developing strong, collaborative relationships with local partners, stakeholders, and service users to create integrated care pathways that provide seamless access to services, while reducing health inequalities.

Main duties of the job

As Head of Partnerships, you will be fully supported and equipped to drive the successful delivery of our BSW transformation plan, ensuring its alignment with the broader organisational goals.

In this role, your key responsibilities will include:

You will lead the development and execution of a partnership strategy designed to establish, grow, and sustain effective relationships with key partners, with a particular emphasis on the voluntary sector. Your efforts will focus on identifying potential partnership opportunities that enhance community capacity, ensuring these opportunities align with the organisations strategic objectives.
You will take proactive steps to address and resolve any issues related to partnerships, advocating for both the needs of the organisation and those of external partners. This will involve effective communication and negotiation to foster productive collaborations.
You will hold overall responsibility for system and service user engagement activities. You will develop and implement metrics to evaluate the impact of these activities, ensuring they contribute to improved outcomes and align with financial performance targets.
Another key responsibility will be the development and delivery of a comprehensive system engagement strategy. You will engage partners at various levels in the ongoing development and implementation of the transformation plan, in line with the Integrated Care Boards (ICB) vision for Integrated Community-Based Care (ICBC).

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Date posted

13 January 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£74,290 to £85,601 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/111/13270

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Bath

Avon

BA2 5RP

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Head of Partnership and Engagement, within HCRG Care Group, you will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Salary of £74,290 - £85,601 (Band 8C) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Head of Partnership and Engagement, within HCRG Care Group, you will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Salary of £74,290 - £85,601 (Band 8C) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.