Employer: Surrey Downs Health and Care. Employer type: Public (Non NHS). Site: Surrey Downs Health and Care Town, Epsom. Salary: £66,653 - £77,094 Pro Rata per Annum inc Outer HCAS + on call. Salary period: Yearly. Closing date: 02/04/2026 23:59.
Surrey Downs Health and Care
Home First Delivery Lead-Surrey Downs H&C
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
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 IC 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.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape future services, drive innovation, and contribute to truly integrated, person-centred care within a forward-thinking NHS partnership.
Main duties of the job
* 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 IC.
* Provide expert advice, training and methodological support to clinical and managerial leads to strengthen programme delivery and transition.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
* The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
* Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job description and person specification for the clear understanding of the job.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in the NHS
* Recognised management qualification
Experience/Knowledge
* Broad range of senior management experience within the NHS and/or other elements of the Public Sector in a Programme Management environment.
* Experience of working with complex data and can demonstrate excellent analytical skills ensuring both robust analysis and clear presentation of data to a wide range of audiences
* Experience of assessing and reviewing Business Cases and Programme Management documentation
* Experience in performance reporting
* Current and broad knowledge of the whole NHS context
* Specific in-depth knowledge of the national agenda and the impact on CCGs and/or Integrated Care Systems
Skills
* Advanced IT software analysis skills using Excel and databases. To include ability to quickly analyse data using pivot tables and interact with databases to pull out key data.
* Calm, methodical, and timely approach to financial analysis, writing reports, submitting returns, and analysing statistics.
* Demonstrates ability to self manage workload and complexity in order to operate effectively
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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