Job summary
- Main area
- Commissioning
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-Call)
- Job ref
- 086-8102296-A
- Employer
- NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- County Hall/Haylock House TBC
- Town
- Leicestershire/Northamptonshire
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Director of Integrated Commissioning
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.
Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.
Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:
- Our patients and our local population come first
- We work together in an open and accountable way
- We trust, challenge and support each other
- We do what we say we will do.
Job overview
Assistant Director of Integrated Commissioning (Neighbourhoods)
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland and NHS Northamptonshire ICBs
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Assistant Director of Integrated Commissioning. This is a pivotal role across Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire taking on the strategic commissioning lead for Neighbourhood Care.
Due to the seniority and partnership-facing nature of this role, regular and frequent attendance across the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR) Cluster is essential. This position requires significant in-person engagement with providers, local authorities, primary care, VCSE partners and neighbourhood teams, and is not suitable for candidates seeking predominantly remote-working arrangements. Attendance expectations will exceed the ICB's standard hybrid working requirements.
Main duties of the job
This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering innovative, integrated, and person-centred Neighbourhood Health services, Primary Care transformation and out-of-hospital care pathways. You will support the transformation of local services in line with ICB priorities, NHS Long Term Plan ambitions, and national policy direction, with a strong focus on improving outcomes for people living with frailty and complex needs.
Working for our organisation
We are looking for a strategic and collaborative leader who can drive large-scale transformation across complex systems with significant experience in healthcare commissioning, system transformation and partnership working, ideally within the NHS or public sector.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of integrated care at Neighbourhoods and make a lasting difference for the populations of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a senior commissioning leader, you will:
- Act as Lead Commissioner for neighbourhood contracts, ensuring effective oversight of delivery, performance, and transformation of local health and care services
- Drive the development and implementation of new models of care
- Lead the development of neighbourhood infrastructure
- Support provider market development, fostering ‘at scale’ neighbourhood delivery models
- Lead commissioning for complex care, Frailty (Ageing Well), Primary care transformation and out of hospital care
- Work closely with system partners stakeholders to deliver integrated, population health–driven outcomes across the ICB Cluster
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Extensive knowledge of and expertise in specialisms relevant to function and role
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience and/or understanding of the wider Health Economy
- Commercial expertise
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Commitment to listen to different views and opinions to drive better results
Analytical & Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusion to inform initiatives
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Autonomy & Management Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
- Ability to delegate effectively.
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
Physical Skills and Equality & Diversity
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yasmin Sidyot/Nicki Adams
- Job title
- Director of Integration
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
contact Nicki Adams ([email protected]) or Yasmin Sidyot if you want to discuss the roles further or have any questions about the role.
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