Band 8a Locality Integration Manager
The closing date is 03 August 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Locality Integration Manager to join Solihull Community Services at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will provide senior operational leadership, programme management and assurance to support integrated locality working across Solihull and translate the Solihull Place agenda into improvements for local people. Working with health, social care, primary care, voluntary, community and wider system partners, you will support the Solihull Locality Partnership Board to coordinate delivery of the Locality Delivery Plan, strengthen governance and assurance arrangements, monitor progress against agreed outcomes and identify barriers to delivery.
The post holder will support transformation and improvement programmes, integrated models of care, reporting, risk management, benefits realisation and partnership decision making across organisational boundaries.
We are looking for an experienced operational, programme or service improvement leader with strong partnership skills, excellent communication and reporting ability, and experience of working in complex multi stakeholder environments. You will be confident using data to inform decisions, managing competing priorities and influencing colleagues across organisational boundaries.
If you are compassionate, collaborative and ambitious for Solihull, and share UHB's values of being Kind, Connected and Bold, we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
- Actively engage with local communities and patients ensuring they are represented, facilitated to communicate their views/concerns and play an active role in service improvement development opportunities to ensure that services are inclusive and reflect the diversity of our local population.
- Develop partnership arrangements with NHS service providers particularly primary care providers, other agencies, voluntary and private organisations to support service improvement and develop business cases and tenders for the delivery of services where appropriate.
- Encourage and support communications processes internally and in partner organisations to ensure all stakeholders have appropriate information and engagement to support service improvement.
- Responsible for developing, proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and contracts which impact service delivery in the locality.
- Propose changes to own function making recommendations for other service delivery.
- Draft reports summarising status on issues, appraise outcomes and provide progress reports for the Locality Delivery Partnership Board and for the Senior Locality Integration Manager where appropriate.
- Lead on and support delivery of Community Care Collaborative workstreams within the Locality, including monitoring and reporting on the benefits realisation of the projects.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Qualifications
- Degree level education or equivalent
- Evidence of continuous personal development including project and programme management
- Relevant training in quality improvement and/or service improvement methodologies
Experience
- Experience in the design, development, implementation and management of change in a complex, political, multiple stakeholder environment.
- Experience of successfully managing a budget.
- Experience of operational line management/ managing a team / service.
- Extensive experience in project and or programme management roles.
- Extensive experience in process-mapping and leading service improvement/ development
- Experience in the development of business cases.
Additional Criteria
- Programme and project management expertise to develop, coordinate and deliver projects.
- Required to possess excellent IT skills, including the use of advanced spreadsheet and project packages to analyse and manipulate large amounts of data and produce user friendly reports.
- Ability to develop and/or improve existing internal processes and gain buy in from stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to interpret complex data from multiple sources, reporting progress clearly and effectively, identifying key risks and issues and ensuring timely mitigation or escalation.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with executive level stakeholders, clinicians and other operational leads.
- Competency in Microsoft Office; including advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- The post-holder must be able to work under pressure, deliver within tight deadlines and, consequently, have a flexible/adaptable approach.
- Substantial evidence of the ability to involve teams in analysis of situations and solutions development.
- Ability to develop new and/or improve existing internal processes and embed within an organisation.
- Excellent written communication skills; able to write clearly and concisely, producing reports, bid responses and business cases.
- Excellent oral communication, presentation and negotiating skills and is confident presenting to large groups and can handle challenge from senior specialist professionals.
- Self motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- Ability to work autonomously without direct supervision.
- Willing to encourage and drive innovation, win support to new initiatives by reconciling conflicts and applying rational thinking.
- Ability to set high standards for self and others to deliver service priorities.
- Ability to maintain credibility of self and the team.
- Commitment and resilience both personal and within a team environment.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to travel across sites.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust