Job summary
The Associate Clinical Director for Clinical Leadership and Advice provides strategic and technical clinical oversight across all functions of the Integrated Care Board (ICB), ensuring that decisions are grounded in robust clinical evidence, governance, and population health priorities. This senior role acts as a key clinical advisor, offering expert input into commissioning, transformation, and operational delivery. The postholder leads on embedding clinical leadership across the system, supports multidisciplinary collaboration, and ensures that technical clinical advice informs service design, risk management, and quality improvement

Main duties of the job

• Provide leadership and direction, in line with the ICB strategic plan, for evidence-based clinical policy formation, management of individual funding requests and processes for people for whom the commissioning route for their care is not clear.
• Together with other Clinical Directors work to design and implement an increasing range of utilisation management techniques to enable the ICB to improve outcomes whilst maximising technical and allocative efficiency of resources
• Work through clinical policy formation and implementation to ensure continuously improving outcomes, reduced inequalities, and delivering best value for money and financial sustainability at ICB and local system level.
• Ensure that clinical policy work and routes for individual funding requests are as easy to use as possible for people in the population and clinical staff.

About us
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.

We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.

We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.

Job responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to master's degree level or equivalent level of experience in a relevant field (e.g. health, care, public services, professional expertise, or related discipline).
• Evidence of continuous professional development, with a track record of keeping skills and knowledge current covering a number of disciplines such as Finance or Management.
• Significant experience at Senior Management (sub board) within the NHS, public sector, or a comparable complex system
• Registered with a relevant Professional Body and up to date with CPD
• Hold a postgraduate or management qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Leadership qualification.

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Extensive leadership experience in a complex, multi-agency environment, ideally within health and care commissioning.
• Demonstrable success in delivering organisational change, transformation, and integration at scale.
• Deep understanding of the NHS, Integrated Care Systems, and the wider health and care policy context, including the priorities of the NHS 10 Year Plan and statutory duties of an ICB
• Strong track record in delivery of strategic planning, commissioning, and/or system-wide service redesign to improve outcomes and value for money.
• Evidence of working effectively with a broad range of partners, including local authorities, providers, community organisations, and national bodies.
• Experience of leading in a politically sensitive environment and balancing competing demands with diplomacy and sound judgement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.