St Pancras Redevelopment Programme Director Candidate Information Pack
Executive Summary
North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Programme Director to lead the realisation of the St Pancras Redevelopment Programme. North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) was formed as the result of a merger between Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust in November 2024. NLFT has a turnover of over £500m and with over 5,500 staff is one of the largest mental health providers in the country. The St Pancras Hospital Redevelopment Programme is an ambitious NHS plan aimed at improving mental health and community services for local people. The entire redevelopment aims to position the site as a beacon of modern community healthcare, accessible and sustainable for both patients and the surrounding community.
Through the redevelopment of the St Pancras Hospital site with a commercial development partner (King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership), our vision is to provide exceptional clinical care in modern, accessible and sustainable facilities, and to deliver a place which is accessible and welcoming to all, whilst promoting the physical and mental wellbeing of those living, working and visiting the area, through open space, workspace and homes alongside new modern clinical buildings. Having successfully delivered two state of the art mental health facilities at Highgate East and Lowther Road, the Programme has undertaken a major review of the scope of next stages and will be delivering additional improved facilities for mental health services (provided by NLFT) both on the existing site and other local sites. The site is currently home to a kidney dialysis unit (provided by Royal Free London NHSFT), and the move of this facility to another local site will require close co-ordination with the wider Programme. The new health facilities on site, coupled with Project Oriel, a world-leading centre for advancing eye health (delivered by Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL) and extensive regeneration of the area by KCCLP gives the Programme the potential to be a world-class healthcare-led urban regeneration programme. King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership is well known for delivering a new neighbourhood just over the canal at King’s Cross, with places to shop, eat and work alongside new homes, community uses and a range of public spaces. It has a proven track record of unlocking benefits for the local community in the wider Camden and Islington areas and having been working with the area since 2001, has developed an extensive knowledge of the area and its needs. We want the St Pancras Hospital site to be an environment for everyone – a place that is open and accessible for all. Places have the power to maintain good mental health and help us to heal and we want to achieve this across everything we deliver as part of this masterplan. The St Pancras Programme
About Us
The North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) was officially formed on November 1, 2024, following a merger between the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. This merger builds on a two-and-a- half-year collaboration known as the North London Mental Health Partnership, aimed at delivering high-quality, comprehensive mental health services across North London. The new Trust serves a diverse and densely populated area, striving to make care more personalised, accessible, and consistent across boroughs.
The merger allows for a united voice advocating for mental health issues, and it aims to improve community engagement, enhance career development for staff, and leverage economies of scale. This also includes expanding membership to include public representatives and service user/carer members, ensuring that community voices play a role in shaping services. NLFT has four strategic aims, focusing on high- quality local care, equitable health outcomes, supportive workplaces, and innovation through research and technology.
Job Description
• Work with the ICB Chief Strategy and Population Health Officer and team to ensure that all regulatory requirements in relation to patient and public engagement regarding service change are met. • Work with the KCCLP team in line with the requirements of the master development framework agreement, and with them jointly to ensure that the Project Delivery Group and Collaboration Agreement with Moorfields Eye Hospital are managed effectively, seeking and acting upon relevant expert advice. • Work as a member of a delivery-focused programme team, and lead project teams. Provide leadership and direct large multi- disciplinary teams to deliver successfully, ensuring clear role design and supporting and developing individuals. • Ensure strategic and operational risks and issues are identified, prioritised, assessed and mitigated. Ensure senior stakeholders (including regulators, & the NLFT Trust Board) are briefed, updated and where appropriate enrolled in the management and control of key risks. Identify and engage specialists as appropriate. • Maximise benefits from the NLFT projects, monitoring benefit delivery. • Ensure that all projects and workstreams support and comply with robust programme performance and controls. Identify success criteria, set project controls and be accountable for performance. Engage fully with external assurance and respond to recommendations. 4. General • All staff are responsible for the continual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes. • The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trust’s Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures. 5. Personal Development All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following year’s departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and the knowledge and skills competency framework.
Job Title Location
St Pancras Redevelopment Programme Director Trust Headquarters at St Pancras Hospital North London NHSFT CEO (Programme SRO)
Accountable To Responsible To
NHSFT CEO
1. Job Summary The St Pancras Redevelopment Programme Director is responsible for leading a range of NLFT projects and associated business change activities related to the St Pancras Redevelopment Programme and for their co-ordination with interdependent projects and programmes relating to the St Pancras Hospital site. They manage the relationship with NLFT’s commercial development partner, and have responsibility for ensuring that NLFT complies with its obligations under this contract, including in relation to the associated planning application. They have primary responsibility for successful delivery of the required outcomes, including the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks and issues and ensuring the business readiness for change. 2. Relationships/Communications • The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members and external partners characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication. • The role is highly influential and requires exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. The role will manage the St Pancras Redevelopment Programme Sponsor Group (chaired by North Central London ICB CEO, with participation made up of CEOs of NLFT, Central and North West London, Royal Free London, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trusts and the ICB CFO), as well as having crucial interaction with representatives from Camden Council, NHS London, NHS England, the DHSC. The role also leads on the relationship with development partner King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP).
3. Key Responsibilities • Ensure clear vision and objectives, creating an environment in which projects can succeed. • Ensure that all NLFT projects within the Programme are managed in accordance with the programme and Trust requirements, with the objective of maximising benefits to patients within available resources. • Manage strategic dependencies,
ensuring that these are re-aligned to reflect changes in the programme’s environment, including those related to the Oriel Programme. Ensure the
effective management and co-ordination of all interdependencies with other NHS organisations (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust) in relation to the St Pancras site redevelopment and associated projects, supporting the pan- organisational Sponsor Group’s oversight, and in the context of the North Central London Integrated Care System capital plan. • Work with the NLFT CFO and where appropriate the NCL ICB CFO to develop robust NLFT business case(s), ensuring alignment with the SRO and senior stakeholders and agreement through the relevant Programme and Trust governance and regulatory approvals. • Manage partner and stakeholder relationships and communications across multiple groups in line with the wider Programme’s strategies and plans to achieve a single consistent set of messages
within all programme partners and with all stakeholders to ensure buy-in to programme objectives and delivery of outcomes, and to ensure that NLFT projects comply with regulatory and statutory requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations Essential: • Possessing degree level education in relevant subject, or equivalent career experience in a programme leadership role. Possessing project/programme management qualifications and training. • Evidence of appropriate continuing
• Experience of leading complex, contentious, ambiguous and high-profile transformational change in a large organisation and across organisations, preferably within the NHS and / or public environment. • Experience of leading change through joint board arrangements • Knowledge and understanding of clinical services delivery, development, redesign and best practice and how this relates to building design. • Extensive senior level budget management experience. • A confident and demonstrable track record in using quantitative, qualitative, financial and other relevant information to inform delivery planning and in monitoring performance. • Evidence of autonomous decision-making with appropriate reference for advice and authority (e.g. from expert sources) in and outside the organisation. • Experience of working in a highly political environment, in which national and local imperatives are potentially in conflict and addressing different stakeholders appropriately. • Evidence of successful management of multiple stakeholders with competing interests. Desirable: • Experience at a senior and influential role in an NHS environment • Understanding of NHS operations at a local and national level Personal Qualities Essential: • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills across a diverse spectrum of stakeholders • Highly motivated by delivering outcomes that have a positive impact on society
professional and personal development, as a result of feedback, reflection and experiential learning.
Skills/Abilities Essential:
• Excellent written skills, with the ability to develop business cases for complex capital investment programmes, and delivery of major (>£100m) complex capital investment programmes to achieve clinical service benefits. • The ability to successfully lead change through people and influence. Securing high performance and desired outcomes by effective collaborative partnership working and empowering others. • Skills in managing conflict, displaying high levels of emotional intelligence and remaining calm and resilient under pressure. Experience/ Knowledge Essential: • Significant and proven experience in leading complex, organisation-wide project and programme leadership roles. • Well-developed knowledge and experience of programme and project management methodologies and techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes and projects, including risk management. • Possessing a high level of commercial acumen, including an understanding of contractual agreements with partners across the public and private sector. • Experience in a responsible director / senior management position in a complex operational environment implementing change and redesign across organisational boundaries and sectors.
Benefits
At the Trust, we are committed to providing staff with the services and support they need to improve their working lives and achieve a healthy balance between their work and home life. In addition to a basic salary, we provide a great range of staff benefits, such as: • 27 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays. • life assurance cover of twice your annual salary • Flexible working • Tax free childcare vouchers • Health service discounts, plus blue light card
• Discounted gym memberships • Interest free season ticket loans • Eyecare vouchers
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• Possessing excellent judgment • Aligned with the values of NLFT • Results focused • Resilient, composed in challenging or pressurised situations
Application Process The Trust is being supported on this recruitment campaign by the search consultancy The Management Recruitment Group (MRG). To arrange a confidential briefing conversation please contact our advisors:
Charley McCarthy charley.mccarthy@mrgglobal.com Nick Coppard nick.coppard@mrgglobal.com
Applications should consist of a CV and covering letter, outlining key matching experience and rationale for applying for the post. To apply, please submit your application via MRG’s website here.
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