Job summary
- Main area
- Chief Strategy and Neighbourhood Health Officer
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0033
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Pancras Hospital
- Town
- London
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Chief Strategy and Neighbourhood Health Officer
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
North London NHS Foundation Trust is embarking on an ambitious transformation to redefine how mental health care is delivered across North Central London. As part of our commitment to improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities, we are seeking a visionary and dynamic Chief Strategy and Neighbourhood Health Officer to lead this critical agenda.
This is a unique and influential role, reporting directly to the Chief Executive and working closely with the Trust Chair and Board. As a key executive leader, you will shape and drive the strategic direction of the Trust, ensuring our core aims are delivered:
• Reducing health inequalities
• Eliminating unwarranted variation in services
• Improving outcomes for service users
• Building a sustainable and forward-thinking workforce
Interviews will be scheduled for Week commencing 2nd June 2025
Main duties of the job
With the government’s forthcoming ten-year plan calling for a shift from hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention, this role positions you at the forefront of that change. You will lead the integration of neighbourhood health models, design population health strategies, and develop sustainable care pathways in collaboration with system partners across health and social care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and implementation of the Trust’s Corporate Strategy and Annual Plan
- Design and embed the Trust’s Neighbourhood Health Strategy
- Drive the Trust’s Population Health agenda, using data and insight to stratify care needs and deliver better outcomes
- Collaborate across sectors to ensure neighbourhood-based, digitally enabled models of care
- Provide strategic leadership and expert guidance to the CEO, Chair and Board
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the job description for information on the role and responsibilities to see how you can shape the future of mental health services in North London and create lasting change for the people and communities we serve.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Graduate level education and/or professional qualification
- Educated to Master’s Degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to operate confidently within complex and ambiguous change environments.
- Experience in the execution of stakeholder engagement exercises, and a skilled influencer who is outcome focused.
- Able to operate confidently within complex and ambiguous change environments.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in a highly complex environment at a Board or sub-Board level
- Significant experience of working with external stakeholders, including Regulators
Desirable criteria
- Experience of mental health and or community health and social care delivery.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deborah Holmes
- Job title
- EA to Chief Executive
- Email address
- [email protected]
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