South Kerrier INT Strategic Manager


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Helston, TR13 8AU
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	24 Jul 2026
Closing date:	10 Aug 2026

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Summary

Key Responsibilities 1. Strategic Leadership & Change Management Establish and continually strengthen a well-functioning Neighbourhood Leadership Team. Establish and continually strengthen a high performing Neighbourhood Steering group Develop and maintain the Neighbourhood Delivery Plan, setting priorities, milestones, risks, and metrics. Act as the programme and operational engine room, coordinating workstreams and ensuring alignment with ICS priorities. Work closely with the Integrated Care Area Place Director and Development Manager to ensure neighbourhood plans and delivery align with Integrated Care Area objectives. Coalesce all partners to form a strong neighbourhood gang. With the ability to identify risks to a coherent team early, ensuring responsive to the needs to address challenges and issues early, enabling opportunities of integrated working to be maximised. Experience and/or understanding of all sectors would be advantageous to support effective neighbourhood leadership (e.g. primary care, local authorities, VCSE partners, acute services, mental health, and communities.) 2. Service Transformation & Pathway Development Map services and assets to identify integration and improvement opportunities. Lead redesign of pathways to strengthen proactive, preventative, community-based care. Draw on Population Health Management (PHM) data to target interventions and reduce inequalities. Promote use of digital tools and innovative technologies to improve outcomes. Explore opportunities for shared or optimised estate usage across partners. 3. Operational Oversight, Performance, Data & Financial Management Develop and maintain highquality performance dashboards, using the enabling infrastructure in place, ensuring appropriate data is captured to track outcomes, quality, access, and impact. Analyse neighbourhood data, synthesising trends, risks, and insights to inform decisionmaking. Produce monthly Neighbourhood steering group reports incorporating: performance analysis risks and issues financial monitoring progress updates Lead local financial management, including tracking spend, forecasting, and ensuring value for money. Support development of business cases and funding applications, using data and evidence to make the case for investment. Ensure effective governance, decisionmaking processes, and risk management are in place. Lead workforce planning to support new roles, new ways of working, and integrated teams. Oversee operational delivery across the neighbourhood as the model matures. 4. Continuous Improvement & Learning Culture Apply quality improvement methodologies to identify and implement service improvements. Promote peer learning and shared development across neighbourhood and ICS networks. Use patient, staff, and community insight to shape services. Share learning to inform the evolution of the wider ICS neighbourhood model. Decision-Making Authority The postholder is responsible for: Making operational decisions necessary to deliver the Neighbourhood Delivery Plan. Determining sequencing, prioritisation, and resource allocation across neighbourhood workstreams. Approving routine expenditure or commissioning of small pieces of work within agreed limits. Signing off performance, progress, and risk reports for Board submission. Leading decisionmaking in weekly Leadership Team meetings with the Clinical Lead. Escalating issues requiring systemlevel decision-making with evidence-based recommendations.

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