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Neighbourhood Integration Lead

The closing date is 07 September 2025

This role leads the operational implementation of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) across 2 designated neighbourhoods serving 30,000-50,000 residents each. Working under the Head of INT, you'll establish a "team of teams" approach, bringing together primary care, community health, mental health, social care and voluntary sector partners into cohesive neighbourhood units. The position requires hands-on leadership to transition from existing multidisciplinary meetings to fully operational integrated teams with shared accountability for population health outcomes. You'll work closely with established neighbourhood structures (Forums, Leadership Groups, coordination teams) to ensure INTs are grounded in local community knowledge and needs. Key focus areas include frailty, children/young people, long-term conditions and mental health pathways. This is one of 4 roles working collaboratively to operationalise INT across City and Hackney while allowing local adaptation to neighbourhood-specific needs. Both clinical/practitioner expertise and project management skills are essential for success in this transformational healthcare delivery role.

Main duties of the job

Neighbourhood Team Development: Operationalise agreed INT models, facilitate shared operating protocols and care pathways enabling coordinated delivery across organisational boundaries. Support population health management approaches and facilitate co-location opportunities.

Partnership Coordination: Build effective relationships with Primary Care Networks, coordinate with Hackney and City of London social care teams, engage voluntary sector partners as core team members, work with local public health teams and neighbourhood leadership groups.

Pathway Leadership: Coordinate pathway development for assigned clinical priority areas across neighbourhoods, share expertise with other Integration Leads to ensure common approaches.

Operational Management: Identify and escalate system-level barriers, coordinate practical solutions to integrated working challenges, provide leadership to neighbourhood coordination roles using matrix management, present complex information accessibly to diverse audiences, work on procurement and contract monitoring.

Professional Development: Maintain knowledge and skills, participate in appraisal processes, keep updated with professional issues and health/care landscape, represent Trust at forums, maintain awareness of Trust initiatives and policies.

About us

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing learning/development appropriate post graduate qualification
• Educated to Masters level or able to demonstrate at this level through further training or experience
• Clinical/Practitioner level experience across health and care sector
• Qualification in project management or equivalent experience.

Skills/ Abilities

• ?Experience in project managing in a complex cross-organizational space
• ?Able to design, deliver and evaluate a range of projects
• ?Able to teach individuals and groups both in person and in a virtual setting.
• ?Demonstrates high level of effective communication and presentation skills with all internal and external stakeholders
• ?Skills in use of Population Health Management approaches

Experience

• ?Experience of working with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds
• ?Experience of audit and service development
• ?Experience of change management

Knowledge

• ?Knowledge of locality of City & Hackney and the Place Based Partnership or a similar locality
• ?An understanding of the voluntary/community sector
• ?Knowledge of relevant National Policies and Procedures

Other

• Understanding of Trust values

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.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£64,156 to £71,148 a yearpro rata p.a. inc.