Surrey Downs Health & Care
Surrey Downs Health and Care Partnership is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Home First Delivery Lead to play a pivotal role in delivering large-scale transformation across our integrated health and care system. This is a senior leadership opportunity within the Home First Team, supporting system-wide change that improves outcomes for our local population across Dorking, Epsom and East Elmbridge. Working closely with clinicians, senior managers, local authorities, NHS partners, and the voluntary sector, you will lead the development and delivery of complex programmes aligned to the Surrey Downs model of care and Integrated Care System priorities. You will provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple programmes, ensuring robust governance, benefits realisation, financial control and timely delivery.
The role requires strong programme management expertise, the ability to influence at senior and executive levels and a collaborative approach to working across organisational boundaries. You will line‑manage Programme and Project Managers, support the adoption of best‑practice programme frameworks and act as a key escalation point for system partners.
Responsibilities
* Overall responsibility for the delivery of complex programmes and projects, including building and maintaining strong strategic relationships with key system stakeholders.
* Lead the coordination of programmes from pipeline through to delivery, ensuring alignment with system priorities, transformation objectives and cost improvement plans.
* Provide senior oversight and line management to Programme and Project Managers, monitoring progress, managing interdependencies and resolving risks and issues.
* Ensure robust programme governance, quality assurance and benefits realisation, working with senior leaders to develop and maintain effective frameworks.
* Work closely with the Transformation Team and Senior Management Team to ensure project plans, financial assumptions and anticipated impacts are realistic, risk‑adjusted and achievable.
* Monitor programme budgets and expenditure in liaison with Finance and Business Intelligence teams, ensuring effective use of resources and timely corrective action where required.
* Support continuous improvement by developing and embedding best‑practice programme and change management approaches across the system.
* Act as a senior escalation point for stakeholders and contribute as a core member of the Transformation Senior Management Team, supporting portfolio delivery across the Integrated Care System.
* Provide expert advice, training and methodological support to clinical and managerial leads to strengthen programme delivery and transition.
About Surrey Downs Health & Care
Surrey Downs Health and Care delivers care closer to people’s own communities through Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and an innovative partnership of local NHS organisations. Our partnership includes the three GP federations – GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network – Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust and Surrey Council County. We work together to provide person‑centred care that transcends organisational boundaries.
Contact
For further details or informal visits please contact:
Name: Thomas Williamson
Job title: Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Email address: thomas.williamson@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07918478870
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