Partnerships Project Lead

The Partnerships Project Lead leads the development, delivery and ongoing improvement of a portfolio of partnership programmes to improve the health and wellbeing of people in South London, with a particular focus on tackling health inequalities and addressing the wider social and economic determinants of health.

Working across a complex system, the postholder builds and stewards relationships with community leaders, VCSE organisations, healthcare providers, funders and commissioners, translating shared priorities into deliverable programmes and ensuring effective implementation and impact. They hold responsibility for effective delivery of key partnerships with non-NHS funders and organisations, providing oversight, pace and grip across programme design and governance, delivery and evaluation.

The postholder is the NHS lead for our Trust Partnership with Impact on Urban Health, which includes work to address inequalities in Black Maternal Health and Black Mental Health, accountable for ensuring delivery is coordinated, outcomes-focused and sustainable over time.

The role plays an important part in shaping and supporting how the NHS works with partners, contributing to the development of more participatory approaches to funding, helping to embed learning across the system, and contributing to the evolution of strategic commissioning practice to better address health inequalities.

Main duties of the job

Lead delivery of the Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) and wider partnership portfolio, ensuring programmes are designed, mobilised and delivered in line with agreed priorities, timelines and outcomes.

Maintain oversight of the full partnership portfolio, with a clear line of sight on delivery, risks, interdependencies and performance, and take action to address issues and maintain pace.

Develop and manage effective governance arrangements that support delivery, including convening programme boards, coordinating inputs across partners, enabling timely decision-making and maintaining robust records and audit trails.

Build and steward effective working relationships across community leaders, VCSE organisations, healthcare providers, borough and system partners, ensuring engagement is meaningful and informs programme design and delivery.

Build and maintain relationships with local and national funders who share our values and priorities, adopting a business development approach to identify opportunities to bring funding into the local healthcare system

Translate system insight, community priorities and partner feedback into programme development, ensuring work is responsive, credible and aligned with local and system priorities.

Work with contracted partners to design and implement sustainable approaches to delivery.