Paul Johnston Email & Phone Number

Northumberland

Northumberland

Available for permanent, interim and business consultancy assignments following completion of my last assignment as Interim Executive Director (Place) at Northumberland County Council.Wide range of public sector experience at a senior / strategic level, including economy and regeneration, planning, housing and neighbourhood services.Trusted advisor to West Midlands ADASS through a succession of successful adult social care transformation projects.Extensive portfolio, programme and project delivery experience gained over many years in both public and private sector, including NHS Vanguard programme delivery.Strong track record of successful delivery through effective leadership, people and performance management.

Financial Consulting – interim management and mentoring, troubleshooting, training and facilitating, efficiency planning, use of resources evaluationOrganisational Development consulting – change management, workforce planning, succession planning, interim management and mentoringServices consulting – customer services management, process improvement, service transformationPerformance consulting – strategic planning, use of resources review, service review, improvement planning

Morpeth, Northumberland

Part of the Council's Executive Team, with responsibility for Economy & Regeneration, Planning, Housing & Public Protection, Highways and Neighbourhood Services.

Brierley Hill, West Midlands

Programme Manager and PMO lead for one of thirteen NHS England "Multispecialty Community Provider" Vanguard programmes set up to develop new models of care across England.The All Together Better partnership brings together all the health and social care organisations across the area to review and shape future health and social care services in Dudley. The role of the Programme Manager and Partnership Office Lead is to coordinate the delivery of a complex programme of change involving multiple organisations and to support the Partnership Board so that it can maintain effective oversight of the programme.

Various - West Midlands

Supporting ADASS West Midlands by delivering strategic programmes and projects across the region:Care Act, Integration & Resilience Programme Manager - coordinating resources and effort across a broad strategic programme: - Care Act: embedding the new care & support reforms; monitoring and mitigating the impacts of the care & support reforms; preparing for the introduction and impact of the 2016 funding reforms. - Integration: Supporting the implementation of Better Care plans; maintaining oversight of performance and benefit realisation. - Resilience: addressing operational challenges in respect of Delayed Transfers of Care (DToC) and Continuing Health Care (CHC).Care Act and Better Care Fund Project - supporting preparations for the reform of care and support legislation and integration between health and social care.Personalisation Project - improving the quality and take-up of Personal Budgets and Direct Payments. Commissioning project - enabling sector-led improvement in commissioningBuilding Community Capital Programme - identifying the strategic drivers for market shapingPersonal Assistant Project - addressing the barriers to direct employment, from the perspectives of people who use care & support services and those they choose to employ.

Dudley, West Midlands

Advisory role with a brief to set up the Adult Social Care Programme Management Office and to oversee a broad change portfolio. Programmes include:- Integration with Health Partners (including Better Care Fund)- Efficiency- Care Act 2014- Making it Real in Dudley

Working with the Change Portfolio Office to embed the new change governance framework and project lifecycle; programme assurance.

Director of Customer Services (Housing; Environmental Health; Community Safety; Revenues & Benefits; “FirstCall” One Stop Shop & Contact Centre; Waste Management; Environmental Maintenance; Parks & Open Spaces); Deputy Chief Executive; Local Government Reorganisation - Transition Plan co-author and Culture Change Team Member.

Internal Management Consultant, Change Manager, Performance Improvement Manager, Project and Programme Manager

National Business Change Agent with specific accountability as the Bank's retail channel lead representative for the acceptance and implementation of strategic change programmes such as central telephony strategy, centralisation of Personal Finance Teams and Branch Organisational Design.

Bsc (Hons), Financial Services And Associateship

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