Head of Transformation and Integration

Head of Transformation and Integration

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

The closing date is 27 April 2026

We are looking for an experienced transformation leader who can turn strategy into delivery, build strong partnerships, and lead large scale change that improves outcomes for patients and staff. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, values driven Head of Transformation & Integration to join our Operational & Transformation Senior Management Team.

This is a high impact leadership role at the heart of our Trust's ambition to deliver integrated, digitally enabled and financially sustainable services. You will provide senior, visible leadership across a diverse portfolio, shaping the future of care pathways and ensuring our services meet the needs of our communities now and in the future.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape a developing transformation function and make a meaningful impact on how we deliver services. You will work alongside supportive senior leaders, have the freedom to innovate, and play a key role in driving modernisation, efficiency and improved outcomes for staff and service users.

Please note the Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to work for this role; to apply you must have current right to work in the UK status. If you are employed on an acceptable time limited visa, there is no guarantee of sponsorship at point of expiry.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior leadership for divisional transformation, turning strategy into delivery through disciplined programme management and robust benefits realisation.
• Lead a portfolio of transformation, integration and pathway redesign programmes, ensuring they draw on national best practice, local context and patient and staff feedback.
• Translate Trust strategy into 1, 3 and 5 year delivery plans, aligned to organisational and system priorities.
• Act as SRO/Programme Lead for major programmes, ensuring governance, risk, benefits and change control are rigorous and transparent.
• Provide operational leadership across services, ensuring safe, effective and patient centred delivery.
• Build strong, positive partnerships with commissioners, system partners and local organisations to support integrated pathways of care.
• Lead and develop the Transformation & Integration Team, fostering a culture of improvement, compassion and high performance.
• Ensure service users, carers and families are consistently involved in shaping and evaluating services.
• Deputise for the Associate Director of Operations & Transformation when required.

About us

We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Our people (all 4,500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

Our values are inclusivity, diversity and a commitment to supporting staff and patients.

Benefits

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• First level degree or equivalent experience gained through an alternative route
• Master's degree or equivalent experience gained through an alternative route
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Will be asked to provide original certificates to verify qualifications at point of offer

Experience

• Experience at senior management level within the NHS, including the management of programmes of work supporting change
• Partnership working across health/social care organisations
• Developing multi disciplinary / multi agency collaborative working
• Experience of business/service planning
• Experience of leading service improvement or change
• Management of budgets
• Interpreting organisational strategy and / or national policy into service portfolio
• Evidence of delivery of organisational and patient benefits

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check to verify no previous criminal convictions.

Employer name: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust