Associate Clinical Director Clinical Advisory

Central East Integrated Care Board; Ely; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Central East Integrated Care Board in Ely, Cambridgeshire invites an Associate Clinical Director (Clinical Advisory). This NHS role provides senior clinical leadership across commissioning, transformation and operational delivery, ensuring decisions are grounded in evidence and population health priorities.

The post holder leads on embedding clinical leadership, supports multidisciplinary collaboration, and ensures that clinical advice informs service design, risk management and quality

Qualifications

• Master’s degree level or equivalent in health, care, public services or related discipline.
• Experience and CPD in Finance or Management is expected.
• Senior NHS or public sector leadership experience with governance responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for evidence-based clinical policy formation and funding processes.
• Design and implement utilisation management techniques to improve outcomes and efficiency.
• Lead on embedding clinical leadership across the system and advise on service design and quality improvement.
• Ensure policies are user-friendly for population and staff in the commissioning path.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Strategic planning

Policy development

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Postgraduate or management qualification

Job description

Main area Utilisation Management - Clinical advisory Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 644-CE088

Employer Central East Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Central East ICB Town Ely, Cambridgeshire Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Associate Clinical Director Clinical Advisory

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

We are Central East ICB, the new organisationentrusted with serving more than 3.5 million people across Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Hertfordshire.

We are responsible for making sure that the NHS can continue to support our community – now, and in the future. Everything we do will be guided by our core purpose: to do what best serves the population of this area.

We promise to focus on what makes the biggest difference to people’s lives – acting earlier to help prevent illness and detect disease and making it easier for our community to get the health care they need, closer to home, whenever that’s possible.

If you need support with the application process, please contact our People Team at [e-mail].

Read about our priorities in our strategy document, Our Way .

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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.

Knowledge and Experience

• 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

Notes on completion of applications

• All reference requests will be made to your employer/previous employers' HR Department, covering the previous 3 years of activity.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
• All eligible staff will need to have gained clearance through a standard/enhanced DBS check prior to working.
• All posts are subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Name Katherine Rowe Job title Deputy Director Clinical & Professional Standards Email address [e-mail] Additional information

Contact Name : Himani Ramkisson

Contact Job title: Associated Clinical Director Clinical and Professional Standards

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