Neighbourhood Manager

Job summary

Neighbourhood Manager (Band 8b) - Barnet

Location: Barnet, North LondonSalary: Band 8b | Contract: 12-month FTC/Secondment | Full or part timeHosted by: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH)

Help Shape the Future of Health and Care in Barnet

We are recruiting Neighbourhood Managers to develop and lead Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) within Barnet's five neighbourhoods. This is a unique opportunity to shape services that truly reflect the needs of local communities.

Barnet is one of London's most vibrant boroughs, home to over 400,000 residents, diverse communities, and rich cultural heritage. We are now entering a transformational moment in how health and care are delivered locally, and we are looking for exceptional leaders who want to be part of this change.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

As a Neighbourhood Manager, you will:

• Establish and lead the 'Team of Teams' approach, bringing together primary care, secondary care, community health, mental health, social care, and voluntary sector partners into cohesive neighbourhood units

• Lead the coordination of health, care, and community services within one or more of Barnet's neighbourhoods

Why This Role Matters ?

Barnet's neighbourhood model is built around the London Target Operating Model and the NHS' 10-Year Plan, focusing on three key shifts:

• From hospital to community

• From analogue to digital

• From sickness to prevention

Your work will help deliver these core shifts, embedding new ways of working that make care more joined up, more responsive and more meaningful for residents.

What We're Looking For:

Proven leadership and partnership-building skills

Experience in integrated care and service transformation

Deep understanding of Barnet's communities, priorities, and challenges

Ability to navigate local networks and influence change

Apply Now

If you care about Barnet, understand its people, and want to lead meaningful change, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal conversation or to learn more about the role, please get in touch with Jane Williams: jane.williams13@nhs.net

About us

Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and personal specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and personal specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent combination of degree and post graduate clinical or professional qualifications, management training and experience
• Can evidence recent and on-going personal development activity
• Has broad knowledge of current NHS and Social Care policy and context for Neighbourhood Health
• Has specific in-depth knowledge of the challenges facing health and social care

Desirable

• Management qualification/ Quality Improvement training / projects & programmes
• Health/ Social care qualification
• Registration of a professional body

Experience

Essential

• Proven ability to build relationships and foster collaboration across multiple organisations
• Significant experience of working within health or social care including health, mental health
• Experience of working in complex systems and change environments
• Patient and public engagement
• Project management working with clinical / social services

Desirable

• Evidence of working to tackle health inequalities with measurable impact including building working relationships with the voluntary/community sector

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Substantial experience of working as a senior manager or clinical professional at a senior level.
• Specialist understanding of place-based care, integrated working, and the Neighbourhood health agenda
• Ability to engage with local communities and understand population health needs and outcomes
• Handling complex, sensitive, or contentious information.
• Significant experience in leading change management initiatives
• Knowledge of the local population and geography
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, Teams, able to manipulate, interpret and communicate complex data sets to all audiences
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and strategy
• Ability to interpret complex information and make decisions with significant consequences.
• High-level problem-solving and strategic planning
• Responsibility for developing and implementing policies and procedures that impact across services.
• Organisation development, ability to enthuse and lead virtual teams 'team of teams' across organisational boundaries, impacting on service delivery and outcomes for patients and citizens.

Desirable

• Demonstrated Research skills

Key Attributes

Essential

• Operates with a high degree of autonomy, setting strategic direction within broad organisational policies.
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
• Experience of leading on the development of business cases
• Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical and professional supervision

Person Specification
Education/Qualification

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent combination of degree and post graduate clinical or professional qualifications, management training and experience
• Can evidence recent and on-going personal development activity
• Has broad knowledge of current NHS and Social Care policy and context for Neighbourhood Health
• Has specific in-depth knowledge of the challenges facing health and social care

Desirable

• Management qualification/ Quality Improvement training / projects & programmes
• Health/ Social care qualification
• Registration of a professional body

Experience

Essential

• Proven ability to build relationships and foster collaboration across multiple organisations
• Significant experience of working within health or social care including health, mental health
• Experience of working in complex systems and change environments
• Patient and public engagement
• Project management working with clinical / social services

Desirable

• Evidence of working to tackle health inequalities with measurable impact including building working relationships with the voluntary/community sector

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Substantial experience of working as a senior manager or clinical professional at a senior level.
• Specialist understanding of place-based care, integrated working, and the Neighbourhood health agenda
• Ability to engage with local communities and understand population health needs and outcomes
• Handling complex, sensitive, or contentious information.
• Significant experience in leading change management initiatives
• Knowledge of the local population and geography
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, Teams, able to manipulate, interpret and communicate complex data sets to all audiences
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and strategy
• Ability to interpret complex information and make decisions with significant consequences.
• High-level problem-solving and strategic planning
• Responsibility for developing and implementing policies and procedures that impact across services.
• Organisation development, ability to enthuse and lead virtual teams 'team of teams' across organisational boundaries, impacting on service delivery and outcomes for patients and citizens.

Desirable

• Demonstrated Research skills

Key Attributes

Essential

• Operates with a high degree of autonomy, setting strategic direction within broad organisational policies.
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
• Experience of leading on the development of business cases
• Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical and professional supervision

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust
Address

Grahame Park HC

Grahame Park estate, London

Barnet

NW9 5XT

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