Executive Director of Community Services

The Executive Director Community Services is responsible for the delivery of accessible and effective personalised community services that meet high quality standards for our citizens. Additionally, you will work with others to ensure that performance is optimised, and services are engaged in continuous quality improvement, innovation and transformation.

You will inspire, develop, and empower our dedicated operational and clinical leaders, promoting the importance of robust governance and multi-professional working.

You will champion and drive closer working and greater integration of health and care services to collectively address health inequalities and ensure the very best outcomes for the population of Tower Hamlets within available resources and people. This will include cultivating relationships with a wide network of colleagues external to the Care Group bringing together organisations including the Third Sector to collectively improve service provision., The Executive Director Community Services is a key member of the Executive Management Team. You will share responsibility for all corporate decisions of the Board and carry responsibility for you service areas operational delivery, performance and related matters. You will also support the CEO in leading the strategic development of the Care Group with the Executive and Senior Leadership Team.

As Executive Director Community Services you will be responsible for emergency preparedness and business continuity ensuring sound plans are in place for your service operations and periodically tested to maintain business continuity and preparedness for major incidents. You will be required to link in with our Joint Medical Directors who hold executive responsibility for business continuity and emergency planning.

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.