Total 2 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Preston, Lancashire

A Vacancy at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


We are seeking to recruit a Transformation Director for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Provider Collaborative. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a forward-thinking provider collaborative dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes through increased collaboration across the Northwest region.

We are seeking a candidate who demonstrates:
• Proven Leadership:Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams across multiple organisations.
• Strategic Insight:Strong programme management capabilities to manage complex and large-scale initiatives.
• Influence and Collaboration:Superior interpersonal and influencing skills to work seamlessly with partner Trusts and system-wide stakeholders.
• Transformational Capability:A robust track record of delivering substantial improvements in healthcare services and patient outcomes.

This role presents a unique opportunity to join an advanced Provider Collaborative committed to healthcare excellence. If you possess the leadership acumen, strategic vision, and collaborative spirit required for this role, we invite you to apply and contribute to the future of healthcare in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

If you wish to have an informal conversation with the Managing Director please contact Meg Fraser (details below). Please apply by submitting a covering letter detailing your motivation to apply for this role and how you meet the criteria along with your CV to:

Meg Fraser, Business Support Officer (megan.fraser@lthtr.nhs.uk /07732826404)



The Transformation Director will be instrumental in supporting the delivery of large-scale transformation, particularly with the clinical reset programme, with and through the Provider Collaborative team and broader partners across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The role demands strong leadership, exceptional programme management skills, and the ability to influence and work across various partner Trusts and system partners. The successful candidate will be responsible for:
• Leading and managing the clinical reset infrastructure, governance arrangements and administrative support, including the operation of an effective programme management function.
• Working alongside the Provider Trusts and ICB colleagues to ensure the PCB workstreams and cross-partner programmes are delivering effectively.
• Intelligence gathering, analysis and formulation of materials, including joint policy development, tactical planning and strategic development.
• Working across a wide and diverse stakeholder group to build commitment to a shared vision for the Provider Collaborative and aligned areas of focus and ensuring the contribution of the Provider Collaborative within ICB plans for Lancashire and South Cumbria.
• Work with key stakeholders to establish and evolve mechanisms to support the development and delivery of the clinical blueprint. Using skills of diplomacy, tact and performance management to foster collaboration and enhanced system working.

The five Acute and Mental Health NHS Trusts in Lancashire and South Cumbria have established a collaborative to improve health and healthcare services. The primary objectives are to reduce health inequalities, enhance services, outcomes, and patient experience through working in partnership with the Integrated Care Board to enable system recovery, transformation and long-term sustainability. Additionally, the collaborative aims to make Lancashire and South Cumbria a great place to live and work.

The Provider Collaboration Board, which leads this initiative, comprises of the Chairs and Chief Executives of the five Trusts, who jointly make decisions to benefit the 1.8 million residents of the area. This collaborative effort is a key component of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System, underscoring the importance of unified healthcare delivery.

Collaborative Members:
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust



Working with the Managing Director for PCB, the Transformation Director is responsible for leading the Provider Collaborative’s Clinical Portfolios to deliver the following:

Change Management and Delivery
• Develop and drive the delivery of key programmes of change and improvement, in partnership with clinical teams to deliver patient benefit and financial sustainability.
• Work with the System Planning Lead on oversight of the operational planning cycle across the Provider Collaborative, ensuring key linkages between changes to leadership arrangements to financial ,workforce and activity are in place; closely aligning to the NHS Long Term Plan.
• Responsible for ensuring the plans of the Clinical Portfolios align to NHSE strategic aims, and have actions in place to deliver the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes sought; and that complexity / uncertainty is understood and mitigated.
• Proactively support the working relationships between the Trusts at CEO, Executive and Professional Lead level; providing fair and transparent brokerage focused on achieving the outcomes agreed.

Strategy and Planning
• Lead the development and implementation of clinical strategic plans for the clinical portfolios, aligning national, regional and ICB strategic aims with the Provider Collaborative context facilitating engagement at all levels.
• Ensure the workplans from the Portfolios are understood by all stakeholders and are delivered utilising all available resources efficiently and effectively.

Leadership and Management
• Be an influential leader across the Provider Collaborative and wider system to support collaboration that will improve outcomes for the local population and beyond.
• Provide visible leadership that models exemplary behaviours of personal integrity and inspires and empowers staff to deliver on the Provider Collaborative strategy and objectives.
• Work with the Managing Director, CEOs and members of the Executive Teams to build on successes to date and further develop the required structures and processes in order to deliver on Provider Collaborative priorities.
• Work with the wider system to ensure that the Provider Collaborative continuously develops in order to remain fully effective in the context of a changing NHS and wider health care environment.
• Support a culture which promotes collaboration, inclusion, openness, accountability, and equality of opportunity at all levels.
• Lead and develop the clinical portfolio’s teams in developing and achieving the Provider Collaborative strategic vision and objectives.

Governance and Compliance
• Work closely with leadership teams and clinical leads to ensure strong delivery in the realisation of anticipated benefits, smooth and prompt identification of issues and resolution/escalation to oversight board and identification of common themes or issues across the Provider Collaborative.
• Ensure that the clinical portfolios implement and operates a robust governance structure which is designed to both sustain shared business operations and shape and develop new opportunities.
• Work closely with clinicians and executive teams across the five providers, to ensure that workstreams are agreed, and to drive delivery.

Partnership working and Stakeholder Management
• Lead development of effective working relationship across the Collaborative and wider system to enable collaborative working across organisational boundaries.
• Foster collaboration, leveraging the expertise of partner organisations and wider stakeholder groups.
• Work with system stakeholders to ensure the Trust’s priorities are reflective of system priorities and to ensure an effective contribution to system plans in collaboration with commissioners and partner providers.
• Develop strong working relationships with wider system partners to develop the integration and collaboration of services.
• In collaboration with the Provider communications team, ensure internal and external stakeholders are involved in the development of plans and are well briefed on change programmes.

If you wish to have an informal conversation with the Managing Director please contact Meg Fraser (details below). Please apply by submitting a covering letter detailing your motivation to apply for this role and also a covering letter showing how you meet the criteria along with your CV to:

Meg Fraser, Business Support Officer (megan.fraser@lthtr.nhs.uk or07732826404)


This advert closes on Sunday 8 Dec 2024

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Deputy Director of Learning for Maths with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.

What the school offers its staff

About Eden Boys' School, Preston

Eden Boys’ School, Preston is a Muslim faith-based secondary school for 11 to 18 year old boys, which welcomes pupils from all faiths and none. We opened in 2015 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism. Our Ofsted grading remains ‘Outstanding’ following our most recent inspection in May 2024.

We have an exemplary reputation for excellence in every aspect of school life. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.