Associate Director BNSSG Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme
Band 8d
North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged as of 1 st July 2026 to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This will create an exciting future that brings together the best of both organisations. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients and fairer care for our population, but it will also provide greater opportunities for our people.
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Job overview
Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme Aims
The BNSSG Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme brings together system partners across health, care and VCSE partners in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to improve and transform intermediate care services .
The programme will create a joined up home first intermediate care system that can support people across BNSSG to regain and maintain their independence, prevent hospital admissions, enable timely discharge and recovery, reduce avoidable use of bedded and long‑term care, remove inequalities and achieve better value for money across health and social care resources.
Bristol Foundation Trust is hosting a small team on behalf of all system partners to provide the change and pro gramme management support needed to transform intermediate care services.
Th e programme team work s across and alongside a wide range of system partners, including Bristol Foundation Trust, Sirona Health and Care, Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire Council, North Somerset Council, the BNSSGG Integrated Care Board, primary care, mental health, VCSE sector, independent providers and other partners.
Main duties of the job
The Programme Director will provide senior system leadership for the BNSSG Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme, hosted by Bristol Foundation Trust on behalf of health, local authority and VCSE partners. The post holder will be accountable for establishing , directing and assuring a complex, system‑wide programme of transformation that improves intermediate care, prevention, discharge, recovery and independence outcomes for the population of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
The role will operate at senior leadership level across organisational boundaries, working with acute, community, mental health, primary care, local authority, ICB, VCSE and independent sector partners. The post holder will translate national policy, local strategy and population need into a coherent programme mandate, delivery plan, investment and benefits case, governance framework and implementation approach.
The Programme Director will hold overall responsibility for programme grip, benefits realisation, delivery assurance, stakeholder alignment, risk escalation, resource deployment and the leadership of a small hosted programme team. The existing Band 8b Programme Lead role will report to this post and will lead delegated workstreams within the overall programme architecture.
Working for our organisation
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in health or social care settings
- Recognised programme, project, change or improvement qualification, such as MSP, APM, PRINCE2, Lean, or equivalent practical expertise applying a structured methodology to complex programmes.
Experience
- Extensive senior leadership experience delivering complex transformation, service redesign or improvement programmes in a large, complex organisation or partnership.
- Experience of establishing and running programme governance, risk management, assurance reporting, decision logs, change control and benefits tracking.
- Experience of working effectively with executive, board‑level, clinical, operational, local authority, ICB, VCSE and partner stakeholders.
Knowledge
- Understanding of integrated care systems, provider collaboratives, neighbourhood models and the development of integrated health organisation ambitions.
- Strong understanding of current NHS and social care policy, operational pressures and the implications for acute, community, primary care, local authority and VCSE partners.
Skills and abilities
- Highly developed leadership, communication, negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills, including the ability to secure agreement where views differ or information is contentious.
- Credible, resilient and politically astute senior leader able to operate across organisational boundaries with integrity and sound judgement.
- Delivery-focused, organised and able to maintain calm, clarity and momentum in complex or pressured situations.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
- As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
- The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support – developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
- BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
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