Associate Director BNSSG Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme

The Programme Director will provide senior system leadership for the BNSSG Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme, hosted by Bristol Foundation Trust on behalf of health, localauthorityand VCSE partners. The post holder will be accountable forestablishing,directingand assuring a complex, system-wide programme of transformation that improves intermediate care, prevention, discharge,recoveryand independence outcomes for the population of Bristol, NorthSomersetand South Gloucestershire.

The role willoperateat senior leadership level across organisational boundaries, working with acute, community, mental health, primary care, local authority, ICB, VCSE and independent sector partners. The post holder will translate national policy, local strategy and population need into a coherent programme mandate, delivery plan, investment and benefits case, governanceframeworkand implementation approach.

The Programme Director will hold overall responsibility for programme grip, benefits realisation, delivery assurance, stakeholder alignment, risk escalation, resourcedeploymentand the leadership of asmall hostedprogramme team. The existing Band 8b Programme Lead role will report to this post and will lead delegated workstreams within the overall programme architecture.

The BNSSG Intermediate Care and Prevention Programme brings together system partnersacross health, care and VCSE partners in Bristol, NorthSomersetand South Gloucestershire toimprove and transform intermediate care services.

The programmewillcreate a joined up home first intermediate care system that can support people across BNSSG to regain and maintain their independence, prevent hospital admissions, enable timely discharge and recovery, reduce avoidable use of bedded and long-term care, remove inequalities and achieve better value for money across health and social care resources.

Bristol Foundation Trust is hosting a smallteam on behalf of all system partners to provide the change and programmemanagement support needed to transform intermediate care services.

The programmeteam worksacross and alongside a wide range of system partners, including Bristol Foundation Trust, Sirona Health and Care, Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire Council, North Somerset Council, the BNSSGG Integrated Care Board, primary care, mental health, VCSE sector, independent providers and other partners., Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.