Job overview

The NHP’s Transformation Directorate exists to act as a leading proxy operator of new hospitals, developing and delivering enhanced standards and policies which drive transformational healthcare improvements. The Directorate puts the clinical and operational needs of patients and staff front and centre to realise better outcomes and experiences through transformative hospital builds. 

The Transformation Directorate consists of the following functions: Hospital Operations, Clinical, Digital, Workforce, Research and Innovation, Integration and Project Support. 

As the Integration Director within the Transformation Directorate of the NHP’s Delivery Team, the post holder will lead a function focused on understanding and translating transformational standards and policies into design briefs, engaging schemes to advise them on their design choices, and creating spatial designs for standard rooms, departments, clusters and adjacencies, ensuring they are technically feasible and deliver against briefs and whole hospital strategies. This role provides fantastic exposure to the Executive and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) across the wider Delivery Team and will report directly to the Transformation Director.  

Main duties of the job

Leadership: 

• Represent the NHP as an expert and thought leader for Integration. 
• Set, own, and lead the delivery of the Integration national level purpose, vision, strategic objectives, and plans, ensuring alignment to the overarching NHP Strategy which will directly impact the National Healthcare System. 
• Act as a national level role model for inclusion and the Programme’s values. 
• Act as an influential and collaborative member of the Transformation Directorate’s Senior Leadership Team. 
• Shape, embed and provide effective leadership to nurture the development of the Integration Team. 
• Build relationships and a network to ensure that Integration activity is relevant, credible, well communicated and has buy-in across the Delivery Team and schemes. 
• Facilitate knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and best-practice across the Transformation Directorate and all other Directorates. 
• Contribute to strong programme governance, acting as a member of relevant sub-committees. 
• Identify, manage and/or escalate key risks associated with delivering Integration activities. 
• Gain, on a continual basis, insight related to design briefs, spatial design, and design assurance, to deliver better service outcomes for the Delivery Team. 
• Lead activity for the team across elements of Integration ensuring all activity is delivered seamlessly 

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.