Health Co-Ordinator - Families First Partnership

NHS; Matlock; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health organization in Derbyshire seeks a Health Co‑ordinator for the Families First Partnership Programme. This role involves leading health sector reforms, facilitating multi-level communication, and implementing strategic plans to improve multi-agency safeguarding. Candidates should possess a health care master's degree and extensive senior-level safeguarding experience. Strong skills in leadership, data analysis, and strategic thinking are essential. This position is 18-months fixed-term with potential for extension based on funding.

Qualifications

• First level registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council or Allied Health professional.
• Experience at senior level or above with extensive safeguarding experience.
• Evidence of effective leadership and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the implementation of FFP reforms within the health system.
• Mobilise health organisations and enable cross-sector collaboration.
• Contribute to the strategic planning, quality assurance, and evaluation of the programme.

Skills

Leadership

Data analysis

Communication

Strategic thinking

Change management

Education

Health care related master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

SQL Server

SSRS (SQL reporting studio)

Job description

Health Co‑ordinator – Families First Partnership

The closing date is 14 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health Co‑ordinator to support the new Families First Partnership Programme (FFP) in Derbyshire County.

The post is offered as an 18‑month fixed‑term contract, or secondment opportunity, with the potential for extension dependent on further government funding.

The role will be matrix‑managed by both an NHS health provider and the Local Authority FFP project lead to ensure seamless integration into the multi‑agency team.

The role is part of the national Families First Partnership Programme (FFP) building on the work of the Families First for Children (FFC) Pathfinder, which is the key element of the government’s children’s social care reform strategy “Stable Homes, Built on Love”.

From July 2023 to March 2025, ten local partnerships have acted as Pathfinder sites, testing and implementing transformational change. The focus is on creating a new, end‑to‑end model of children’s social care, centred around the four pillars.

Locally, Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnerships are committed to embedding this vision. They are working with key partners to define local priorities, understand the need for reform, and drive change to benefit children, families, and the wider workforce – especially across health, police, and education sectors.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a dedicated and strategic Health Co‑ordinator to join the FFP programme team in Derbyshire County, who will work closely with the Health Co‑ordinator for Derby city and the FFP project teams working across the Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care System.

This pivotal role will:

• Champion the delivery of FFP reforms across the health sector
• Coordinate and convene regular health stakeholder meetings, including representation from mental health, acute, community, primary care, ICB, and public health
• Ensure health colleagues are fully engaged and supported to understand their roles within the FFP framework.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious national reform programme, to shape the future of integrated care for children and families, and to influence how health services support multi‑agency safeguarding and early help.

About us

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.

As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa’s and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website: Skilled Worker visa: Overview – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support the implementation of the FFP reforms within the health system
• Facilitate effective, multi‑level communication between operational and strategic partners
• Mobilise health organisations and enable cross‑sector collaboration
• Maintain professional standards in line with the relevant regulatory body
• Identify and drive continuous improvement and learning
• Offer expert advice to health partners on risks and emerging issues
• Develop and oversee a joint data collection and reporting framework
• Contribute to the strategic planning, quality assurance, and evaluation of the programme
• Report on the impact of reforms and represent health interests at FFP Steering Boards and programme governance structures
• Work closely with designated professionals and other health colleagues to ensure system‑wide alignment

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• First level registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council or Allied Health professional
• Health care related master's degree or equivalent
• Experience at senior level or above with extensive safeguarding experience
• Evidence of effective leadership, influencing & change management skills
• Data collection/analysis, audit and evaluation – use of database

Communication Skills

• Ability to communicate with senior staff on a range of highly complex and sensitive issues requiring both persuasive and empathetic skills
• Presentation skills to small and large groups

Analytical Skills

• Evidence of ability to lead in the development and maintenance of a suite of reports, consistent with routine performance monitoring, that accurately describes the health position
• Evidence of an expert understanding of Microsoft Office Suite including Advanced Excel, Access, Word and Excel spreadsheet modelling
• Expert understanding of relational databases, and of reporting from SQL Server and SSRS (SQL reporting studio)
• Ability to analyse highly complex facts and situations and develop a range of options for direct senior management in support of decision making
• Evidence of strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
• Evidence of the ability to take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action

Planning Skills

• Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long‑term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Evidence of ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Demonstrate experience of identifying and interpreting national policy, researching best practice, interpreting its relevance, and processes/practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT