Job summary
- Main area
- administration
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- PRI-006-2032-A
- Employer
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stopford House
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director Improvement and Personalisation
Band 8d
Job overview
As we continue to progress through reform organisational changes, a number of roles which have remained unfilled are now being progressed to external recruitment. This only applies where a role has been carefully considered for redeployment opportunities and where the role is deemed to be no longer required for suitable alternative employment and we have been unsuccessful in recruiting internally.
The role of Associate Director Improvement and Personalisation is an integral part of the Stockport Leadership team working alongside other senior leaders in our locality partnership.
The role leads the Transformation and Improvement team and works in a matrix way across our team and system, building on strong relationships, and developing new ways of working, to deliver the best we can for our residents, in partnership with others.
We are looking for a brilliant clinical leader with strength, resilience, forward thinking, innovative, "can-do" attitude that can handle our challenges and ambition. We have a strong track record of delivery and have many exciting things going on which will offer a breadth of opportunities for the right candidate. If your are interested in working in our ambitious locality, in this pivotal role and want to know more, have a read of the job description (it is generic so wont tell you everything you'll want to know ) and then contact me Philippa Johnson at [email protected] or 07554438223.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide clinical leadership and strategic oversight for quality improvement and personalisation across the locality, ensuring transformation programmes embed evidence-based methodologies and person-centred care. This includes championing formal improvement
approaches; National Modern Service Frameworks (MSFs) and National Structure improvement, Collaboratives (Out patients, Urgent and Emergency Care, Frailty) . The post holder will drive a
comprehensive quality improvement culture, integrating learning from safeguarding, incidents, and LeDeR reviews into service redesign, and amplifying the voice of patients and communities.
The role will convene clinical and civic leaders to co-design improvements, strengthen professional leadership from nursing and Allied Health Professionals, acting as a respected,
clinical leadership voice across the place partnership, to modernise personalisation through proactive, preventative care models,. The postholder will ensure active engagement with the clinical
community maintaining strong networks that enable workforce intelligence is embedded in transformation and clinical governance. They will act as a bridge between Greater Manchester
statutory functions and clinical networks, and local delivery, driving assurance-led improvement and building workforce capability in continuous learning and quality improvement.
Working for our organisation
Stockport is an ambitious locality with a strong place partnership, and good relationships. We have a robust One Stockport Health and Care Plan. We are part of the National Neighbourhood Implementation Programme which has helped us accelerate our delivery of Neighbourhood Health plans under the umbrella of GM and Stockport Live Well.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Lead transformation and/or delivery programmes operational workstreams aligned to NHS GM strategy, the Locality Plan and national guidance.
• Deputise for Executive Directors and place partnership leads as required, representing the place partnership at internal and external meetings, including those held in public.
• Maintain oversight of risk, assurance, and governance for the defined portfolio, ensuring
alignment of clinical and organisational governance across the place health and care system.
• Provide executive-level responsibility for transformation programmes, ensuring compliance
with NHS statutory and legislative requirements.
• Ensure transformation is based on population health analysis and best practice, integrated
into robust programme plans and models of integrated care.
• Act with diplomacy while confidently driving change and influencing without formal authority,
navigating any tensions between building strong partnerships and ensuring a rigorous focus
on quality, value for money and reducing health inequalities.
• Work collaboratively across the place partnership (e.g. Local Authority, politicians, primary
care networks and individual providers, hospital trusts, mental health trusts and the voluntary
sector) to ensure joint working, integrated models of care, and accountability for delivery of
integrated outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with local government partners (e.g. adult social care, children’s
services, housing and public health) to develop a shared understanding of the population and
work together to reduced inequalities, improve outcomes and strengthen neighbourhood
health.
• Drive the ongoing identification of underserved communities by assessing the quality,
performance and productivity of provision, by integrating person-level data and insights with
the biological, psychological and social drivers of risk and demand.
• Produce strategic reports and updates for executive oversight (including place and NHS GM
forums) summarising performance status, appraising outcomes, monitoring key performance
indicators (KPIs) and evaluation plans.
• Provide strategic oversight of procurement quality by embedding robust monitoring within
place based contracts, leveraging contractual mechanisms to drive continuous improvement,
and proactively mitigating risks in alignment with National Quality Board standards.
• Work collaboratively across multiple places and/or across GM as required, engaging with
other place partnerships and leading appropriate work across GM, or on behalf of multiple
places, as required.
• Support a partnership approach between the statutory Safeguarding accountabilities of NHS
GM with place arrangements , providing support, leadership and communication to ensure
partnerships at place are robust and effective for adults and children
Person specification
Professional registration
Essential criteria
- Current professional clinical registration
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area in strategic management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive system leadership experience
- Experience of delivery assurance and development of support for identified areas of poor performance, in conjunction with other specialist colleagues
- Experience of producing high quality, concise and clear briefing material for board member or equivalent
- Experience of leading project and change management
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Ability to convene clinical and civic leaders, foster shared decision-making, and ensure transformation reflects patient and community priorities through system collaboration.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical and management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry, including management of teams and services
- Experience in Organisational Application Interview References Page 11 of 14 Development, and senior operational management working with government / public body organisations
- Ability to lead, motivate and inspire staff to work together to achieve common objectives
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting.
competencies
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issue
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issue
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Philippa Johnson
- Job title
- Deputy Place Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07554438223
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