Job Title: Head - Health and Social Care

Location: London / Hybrid

Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum based upon experience plus discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits.

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

We are looking for a proactive, enthusiastic, and driven individual to run our Health & Social Care Programme, a core pillar of our Public Sector work. This role will give the right candidate opportunities to work with a wide range of senior industry figures and civil servants to help drive health and social care transformation. You will be able to make a real difference to this important market.

Overview of techUK's Health & Social Care Programme:

techUK's Health and Social Care programme represents health and care tech companies, supporting a vibrant ecosystem with the potential to become a world leader. techUK is helping its members navigate the complex space of digital health and care in the UK and ensure our NHS and social care sector is prepared for the challenges of the future.

Role Purpose:

Leading one of the biggest and high-profile techUK programmes, the Head of Health & Social Care Programme will report into the Associate Director of Local Public Services and manage a team of three. The Head of Programme is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the programme, working to create the right conditions for NHS and social care to become the most intelligent client for technology possible, and helping our members understand their requirements so they are in the best position to supply tech.

The Health and Social Care Programme represents over 250 members in the health and care tech space and has strong relationships across the relevant health Whitehall departments and local level. The successful candidate will strengthen and establish relevant partnerships and drive continued growth of the programme. They will be the go to thought leader both internally and externally on how technology can transform outcomes for the health and social care sector.

The Health and Social Care Programme has a thriving and busy programme of activities from early market engagement to shaping policy to sharing thought leadership. The successful candidate will also help accelerate our expansion into new areas, for example, the programme has recently launched a new Life Sciences forum.

Existing portfolios include - Healthtech Commercial and Procurement Community of Practice; Interoperability & Health Data Forum; Social Care Working Group; Life Sciences Working Group; and Frontline Digitisation Working Group. The Head of Health & Social Care will also work closely with the Associate Director of Local Public Services on all things social care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the team by setting objectives and strategy to achieve programme and corporate goals
• Provide techUK membership and management team with thought leadership on digital health and care issues and how they impact the tech sector (and vice versa)
• Build and develop relationships with relevant government departments and agencies, positioning techUK as a key partner and go-to organisation on digital health and social care
• Day-to-day management of two programme managers and one junior programme manager who run their respective areas, ensuring high performance
• Achieve all financial and non-financial targets set by the business
• Challenge the status-quo and position techUK as the unique voice of UK tech in the Health and Social Care field
• Ensure regular benchmarking of the programme with similar bodies to anticipate market trends and ensure techUK is leader in the Digital Health & Social Care field
• Managing a vibrant programme of market engagement events for techUK members
• Act as the voice of techUK in health and care; including appearances in the media, at parliamentary committees, panel sessions and giving formal speeches and chairing meetings/events
• Managing the Health & Social Care Council, an elected body of 25 individuals representing the wider techUK membership in this sector

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise:

Essential Knowledge and Experience:

• As the programme lead, they must have a good and strong understanding of the health and social care landscape and agenda; health and care technologies, trends and opportunities and who they key stakeholders are.
• Experience of strategy planning and execution
• Effective relationship engagement and people performance management

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Candidates with experience of; Health and Social Care, Health Care Assistant, Care Support Worker, Residential Care Worker, Care Assistant, Team Leader, Care Systems Programmes, Public-Sector, Public-Sector Programme Leader, NHS, NHS Programme Head, Market Programmes may also be considered for this role.