Health and Care Integration Lead

Overview

As Health and Care Integration Lead, you will drive the local delivery of the Integrated Neighbourhood Health and Care model and align work across Adult Social Care, Children’s Services, Housing, Public Health, and the NHS. You will operate at system-leadership levels, partnering with executives and NHS leaders to co-design services with a resident focus. The role focuses on prevention, outcomes, and innovative approaches to complex public sector challenges. This is a chance to influence how health and social care is integrated to support independence and community wellbeing.

Pay / Benefits

• 25–32 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Hybrid working
• Learning and development portal
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work and related schemes
• Confidential health and wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Lead the local implementation of the Neighbourhood Health and Care model across multiple services
• Focus on preventative approaches and integration of care into local health models
• Tackle complex, system-wide challenges with innovative, precedent-setting solutions
• Oversee strategic co-design, resource allocation, and value-for-money of joint funding streams
• Provide senior matrix leadership to cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams across local authority and health boundaries

Key requirements

• Expertise in health and social care systems and national policy
• Experience delivering transformation in complex public sector environments
• Proven ability to engage and influence Executive-level leads and diverse partnerships
• Agility in approach and willingness to challenge traditional ways of working
• Commitment to equity and embedding inclusion in strategic planning and service delivery

• stakeholder engagement
• proactivity
• ambition
• knowledge of health and social care systems
• experience with public sector transformation
• understanding of complex partnership working

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