Job summary
- Main area
- Quality
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (18 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 116-8196665
- Employer
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Scarsdale
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £112,782 - £129,783 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2026
Employer heading
Deputy Director Delivery & Transformation
NHS AfC: Band 9
JOIN A CONNECTED SYSTEM CARING FOR 3.25 MILLION LIVES ACROSS THE EAST MIDLANDS
Three ICBs, one mission: partnering across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.
The DLN Cluster has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire and will focus on reducing health inequalities, moving care closer to home, and ensuring long-term financial and service sustainability. Its core framework targets prevention, integrated neighbourhood health models, and managing high-risk multimorbidity.
As an employee within the DLN Cluster, you will work in a progressive environment that connects regional strategy with local delivery. While our primary headquarters is at Sir John Robinson House in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, our teams work flexibly across multiple locations throughout the cluster footprint. This role could be employed by any of the organisations within the DLN Cluster. We champion professional development, multi-organisational collaboration and digital enablement, giving our workforce the opportunity to help shape the future of the NHS.
Job overview
This post is essential to the effective delivery and transformation of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, NHS Lincolnshire and NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Cluster ICBs All Age Continuing Care/CHC/S117/ Services moving forward. The post is open to those with either a current Clinical or Professional Qualification and will work as the formal Deputy to the Director of Quality, Safeguarding, CHC and Partnerships in respect of these Services. You will have significant experience of these specialist areas of work and experience of significant service transformation along with a collaborative and compassionate style of leadership and management.
Main duties of the job
The specific responsibilities of this post are to:
- Lead CHC operational strategy and transformation programmes for the 128 months following appointment developing forward plans for following years
- Manage a significant budget ensuring financial probity and delivery of agreed savings across the Cluster ICBs
- Deliver a new model of operational delivery across the cluster that maximises integration and improvement.
- Oversee all aspects of delivery including appeals, complaints, FOIs and SARs
- Lead S117 oversight and joint funding processes
- Provide strategic leadership for market management and brokerage
- Ensure compliance with national frameworks and statutory guidance
- Lead CHC teams across the three ICB footprints
- Manage change programmes driving efficiency, consistency and high-quality outcomes
- Implement redesigned models of CHC and individual care packages
- Oversee CHC risk, performance, and reporting
Working for our organisation
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the organisation responsible for:
- planning to meet local health needs
- managing the NHS budget and allocating resources
- ensuring services are in place to deliver against ambitions
- overseeing delivery of improved outcomes for their population.
NHS Derby and Derbyshire is part of the Joined Up Care Derbyshire integrated health and care system, working with partners in our local authorities, the voluntary sector and others, and helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent;
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Member of relevant professional body either clinical or non-clinical
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively
Analytical
Essential criteria
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions
- High level critical thinking skills
- Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
Management Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Autonomy
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Financial and Physical Resources
Essential criteria
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Hunter
- Job title
- Director of Safeguarding, CHC & Partnerships
- Email address
- [email protected]
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