Home First Delivery Lead-Surrey Downs H&C

Job summary

Surrey Downs Health & Care

Surrey Downs Health and Care Partnership is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Home First Delivery Lead to play a pivotal role in delivering large-scale transformation across our integrated health and care system. This is a senior leadership opportunity within the Home First Team, supporting system-wide change that improves outcomes for our local population across Dorking, Epsom and East Elmbridge.

Working closely with clinicians, senior managers, local authorities, NHS partners, and the voluntary sector, you will lead the development and delivery of complex programmes aligned to the Surrey Downs model of care and ICS priorities. You will provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple programmes, ensuring robust governance, benefits realisation, financial control, and timely delivery.

The role requires strong programme management expertise, the ability to influence at senior and executive levels, and a collaborative approach to working across organisational boundaries. You will line manage Programme and Project Managers, support the adoption of best-practice programme frameworks, and act as a key escalation point for system partners.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape future services, drive innovation, and contribute to truly integrated, person-centred care within a forward-thinking NHS partnership.

Main duties of the job

o Overall responsibility for the delivery of complex programmes and projects, including building and maintaining strong strategic relationships with key system stakeholders.o Lead the coordination of programmes from pipeline through to delivery, ensuring alignment with system priorities, transformation objectives and cost improvement plans.o Provide senior oversight and line management to Programme and Project Managers, monitoring progress, managing interdependencies, and resolving risks and issues.o Ensure robust programme governance, quality assurance, and benefits realisation, working with senior leaders to develop and maintain effective frameworks.o Work closely with the Transformation Team and Senior Management Team to ensure project plans, financial assumptions and anticipated impacts are realistic, risk-adjusted and achievable.o Monitor programme budgets and expenditure in liaison with Finance and Business Intelligence teams, ensuring effective use of resources and timely corrective action where required.o Support continuous improvement by developing and embedding best-practice programme and change management approaches across the system.o Act as a senior escalation point for stakeholders and contribute as a core member of the Transformation Senior Management Team, supporting portfolio delivery across the ICS.o Provide expert advice, training and methodological support to clinical and managerial leads to strengthen programme delivery and transition.

About us

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It's on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.