Chief Executive

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organisation seeks an exceptional leader as the Chief Executive Officer. The role entails strategic leadership to ensure the delivery of sustainable, high-quality services for the population of South Yorkshire, managing a complex healthcare system and driving transformational changes within the NHS framework. The ideal candidate will possess extensive leadership experience, exceptional communication, and strong analytical skills. This critical position aims to address health inequalities and improve community health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape.
• Experience operating at board level, preferably as CEO.
• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to deliver the ICB’s core purposes.
• Lead the transformation to ensure successful delivery of the 2025/26 plans.
• Oversee strategic commissioning of NHS‑funded services.

Skills

Leadership

Compassionate leadership

Strategic problem-solving

Communication

Data analysis

Job description

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

The closing date is 27 January 2026.

About NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is a statutory NHS organisation, formed in response to the Health and Care Act 2022, responsible for securing healthcare provision for the 1.4m population of South Yorkshire. Our core responsibility is to develop a plan to meet the health needs of the population, manage the NHS budget and arrange for the provision of health services in the Integrated Care System area. We work across the system to commission services and support our hospitals, community services and local authorities, and we are proud to lead integrated care efforts, working collaboratively with our clinical, academic and community partners to deliver high‑quality, sustainable health and care services.

Across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield we work alongside our local councils, voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer.

Chief Executive role

We are seeking an exceptional, values‑driven leader to join us as Chief Executive Officer for NHS South Yorkshire ICB. This is a senior system leadership role at a pivotal moment for the NHS. The CEO will lead the transition into a strategic commissioner, overseeing population health strategy, resource allocation, delivery of the 2025/26 plans, and organisational redesign. Working closely with the ICB Chair, partners, our communities and the executive team, the postholder will ensure that NHS South Yorkshire delivers high‑quality, sustainable, outcome‑focused services for local people.

Main duties

• Provide strategic leadership to deliver the ICB’s core purposes: understanding local need, developing a long‑term population health strategy, allocating resources effectively to reduce health inequalities and evaluating impact.
• Lead the transformation to become a Model ICB, ensuring successful delivery of the 2025/26 plans and the redesign of functions across the organisation, supporting and developing the executive team, ensuring high performance, compassionate leadership and accountability.
• Oversee the strategic commissioning of NHS‑funded services, ensuring alignment of investment with outcomes and improving value for money.
• Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with partners across the NHS, local government and the voluntary and community sector.

Personal values

• Commitment to the principles of public life, values of the NHS, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
• A people‑focused leader, able to empathise with people at all levels and demonstrate compassionate and inclusive leadership.
• Lives by the values of openness and integrity and creates cultures where this thrives.
• A collaborative leader, able to build relationships across organisational and sector boundaries.
• Personally driven and able to instil a culture of continuous improvement across the workforce.

Knowledge & skills

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and understanding of the social determinants of public health.
• Excellent understanding of strategic commissioning, oversight and control of public funds.
• Excellent understanding of population health management and the use of data and analytics, predictive modelling and risk stratification to understand inequalities.
• Capacity to deal effectively with multiple stakeholders and exceptional communication skills, engendering community confidence, strong collaborations and partnerships.
• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem‑solving: ability to anticipate and frame issues to drive effective strategy, problem resolution and action.
• Excellent data and analytical skills.

Experience

• Substantial experience of operating at board level and as CEO, with experience leading significant transformational change.
• Experience within the healthcare sector or other equally complex, consumer‑facing, regulated environment.
• Experience of developing strategies that support the effective use of resources and deliver long‑term, lasting improvements.

Employer name

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Application contact

Applicants at risk of redundancy that meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview. For further information and a confidential discussion, please visit AlumniGlobal.com/job/SYICBCEO or contact Simon Green or Rabiya Ali at AlumniGlobal on [phone] and via email at [e-mail].