Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 807-BC-ECEO-VSM-AA-001
- Employer
- West and North London ICB
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- WNL ICB Headquarters
- Town
- London
- Salary
- To be confirmed and subject to remuneration committee approval.
- Closing
- 14/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Executive
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
If you are looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding role, West and North London offers an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to local residents.
This is an exciting time to work in commissioning as the NHS continues to evolve. We support career development at every stage and encourage staff to build on their strengths through ongoing learning and training opportunities.
We work closely with partner organisations across West and North London to deliver the best possible care for local communities and remain committed to equality and diversity.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.
We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1
West and North London Integrated Care Board is committed to ensuring that its recruitment processes are carried out with integrity, transparency, and fairness for all applicants. To help maintain these standards, we ask candidates to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the recruitment process.
If incorrect or misleading information is identified, this may affect the progression of an application, any employment offer, or continued employment. As part of our due diligence, the company may verify the information provided by applicants and take appropriate action where necessary.
Applicants can refer to the Fraud Act 2006 for further information: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/contents
Job overview
What we do
- We plan and fund local health and care services
- We support GPs, hospitals, mental health teams, community clinics and pharmacies.
- We work with councils and community groups so care is joined-up and easy to use.
- We listen to local people and use their ideas to improve services.
- We want health and care to be fair, simple and close to home.
Our strategy
- Reducing inequalities
- Investing strategically to prevent ill health
- Better supporting people with the greatest needs, so everyone stays well
- Make care more local and easier to access
- Empowered local people that feel more confident about their health and wellbeing
We are seeking to recruit, an experienced and high calibre senior leader with a strong track record of being a Chief Executive, leading in both provider as well as commissioning organisations.
This is an opportunity to lead the newly merged NHS West and North London with a population of approximately 48% of Greater London (c4.5m) and approximately £12bn commissioning budget.
You will lead the Executive Team who are committed to delivering our vision of becoming a strong and effective strategic commissioner, with a credible vision to deliver on the neighbourhood health model to deliver on the left shift and reverse the right drift that has been experienced over the past five years.
Main duties of the job
The size of the ICB footprint means the success of the WNL ICB is inextricably linked to the success of London including NHS London Region, Greater London Authority and the London Councils. The ICB and its previous legacy organisations have a strong financial track record, however the merger has increased the complexity of the provider landscape, including 13 local authorities and 18 NHS provider organisations as well as over 500 GP practices and similar numbers of pharmacy and dental practices. The financial allocation for 26/27 is challenging and requires a strong leader to navigate the tensions as the multi-year financial plan starts to be delivered including the need to work with partners to fully realise the commitment to an investment in the left shift from out of hospital care to communities, the cornerstone of which is the neighbourhood model.
An in-depth understanding of the London challenges and the contribution the ICBs make to that challenge within their new role as strategic commissioners is of critical importance. You will need to bring the courage and conviction required to make commissioning decisions that may not be popular with both NHS and local authority providers, particularly in the context of the impact of the Fair Funding Review on some inner borough councils
Working for our organisation
We are NHS West and North London. We are the main commissioning NHS organisation for planning and funding health services across our area. Our job is simple: to help people stay healthy and to make sure everyone can get good care when they need it.
We bring together many health and care services across west and north London. This means we help hospitals, GPs, community services, councils and charities work better together for local people.
NHS West and North London (WNL) serves over 4.5 million people and covers 13 London boroughs. (Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Recruitment Pack for full person spec
Please note the application process is via a CV (details below) , therefore please do not complete the online application as this will not be considered.
Applicants are asked to submit:
•a CV of no more than 2 pages and supporting covering letter of no more than 2,000 words that highlights skills and experience and allows insights on values and motivations for applying for the role. The covering letter should outline personal responsibility and achievement within previous roles that demonstrate the knowledge, skills and competencies outlined in the person specification
•The scoring criteria will be against the Board Competency Framework, which is set out in Appendix 1 of the attached candidate pack. This also includes the job description and person specification.
•The selection process will include two stakeholder panels and an interview panel.
•Both stakeholder panels will take place online on Tuesday 23 June 2026
•The interview panel Wednesday 24 June 2026 in person WNL ICB Headquarters, 15 Ferguson House, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5JD
•If there are any dates candidates would not be available to take part then please include them in the covering application letter, noting this is a time critical appointment. If this is not made known, then it may not be possible to accommodate candidate requirements.
- Please send your completed CV, covering letter, FPPT form and Equality monitoring form to [email protected]
Person specification
Personal values
Essential criteria
- Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime
- Compassionate, people-centred leadership style
- Lives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive
- Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries
- Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial board-level and CEO experience leading significant transformational change
- Career in healthcare or an equivalently complex, regulated, consumer-facing environment
- Proven delivery of strategies that optimise resource use and achieve lasting improvement
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local-government landscape and of social determinants of health
- Expert understanding of strategic commissioning, oversight and control of public funds
- Sophisticated grasp of population-health management, data analytics, predictive modelling and risk stratification
- Deep understanding of healthcare value — the relationship between outcomes achieved and resources consumed
- Comprehensive knowledge of outcomes measurement, cost-accounting methodologies and comparative-effectiveness analysis
- Expertise in value-based payment reform (e.g. bundled payments, capitation, outcomes-based contracts)
- Thorough knowledge of contracting and utilisation-review techniques and how they drive productivity and quality
Skills
Essential criteria
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills, building confidence across communities, clinicians, politicians and partners
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem-solving, anticipating and framing complex issues • Advanced data-literacy and analytical capability, converting insights into strategic decisions and commissioning levers
- Proven ability to design and negotiate complex contracts that link payment to outcomes and cost efficiency
- Demonstrated capability to lead utilisation-review programmes that eliminate waste and improve productivity
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michael Bell
- Job title
- Chair
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
•For a conversation regarding in more detail please contact the Chair, Michael Bell on [email protected] and/ or the Chief People Officer Sarah-Louise Morgan on [email protected]
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