IHPN Vacancies
Head of Policy (Neurodevelopmental Mental Health)
NATURE AND SCOPE
IHPN is the membership network for independent healthcare providers. We play a leading role in the sector by bringing all types of independent providers together, supporting them to deliver great care to patients, and enabling them to make a positive contribution to UK healthcare.
Our vision is for a thriving independent healthcare sector delivering great care to NHS and private patients.
Our members deliver a diverse range of services to NHS and private patients including acute care, primary care, community care, clinical home healthcare, diagnostics, mental health and neurodevelopmental care across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. IHPN’s work programme is covers a similarly diverse range of topics from supporting providers to achieve net zero; working on the contribution of the independent sector to NHS services; understanding the impact of key legislation such as the Health and Care Act; developing a sector wide approach to share and learn from patient safety incidents; supporting the development of medical governance oversight frameworks; and much more. IHPN is both output and delivery focussed, and our policy work reflects this.
PURPOSE
The Head of Policy (Neurodevelopmental Mental Health) is a new senior role within the IHPN team, reporting to the Director of Policy. The Head of Policy will develop a strategic and impactful programme of work to shape the policy environment for IHPN members delivering neurodevelopmental mental health services. This programme will be aimed at successfully influencing the external environment and ensuring that IHPN members are able to maximise opportunities to deliver high quality services.
IHPN members work within a sector in which the public policy framework is very important, especially in terms of the delivery of NHS services. The Head of Policy will work closely with the Director of Policy to identify key priorities for members delivering neurodevelopmental mental health services and translate them into programmes of work.
The Head of Policy will develop relationships at senior level with IHPN members in neurodevelopmental mental health and will work to ensure that they have high levels of satisfaction with their IHPN membership. The Head of Policy will also develop professional networks with key stakeholders including senior representatives at NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, key health think tanks and others as appropriate.
The Head of Policy will work closely with the Director of Regulation to develop a coherent work programme covering both safety and quality, and policy and influencing in neurodevelopmental mental health services.
In collaboration with the Director of Policy, Director of Regulation and Head of Policy (Acute care), Head of Policy (Primary, Community and Diagnostic care), the post holder will also contribute to the broader IHPN policy offer to all members.
HOW TO APPLY: Please send your CV and a supporting statement to [email protected].
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 24th June 2025
IN-PERSON INTERVIEWS: Tuesday 1st July 2025 (London)
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on the role, please contact [email protected] quoting “Head of NMH vacancy”