Clinical Effectiveness IFR Manager | NHS England

NHS England; Greater London, Leeds; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking an IFR Manager (Deputy) to oversee the Individual Funding Request team, ensuring IFR processes align with national guidance and decisions on treatment funding for individual patients.

Based in London or a regional office, the post leads staff across regions, delivering an efficient IFR service and deputising for the IFR Senior Manager while supporting wider NHS objectives.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of IFR processes and commissioning.
• Ability to communicate complex information to senior stakeholders.
• Experience in developing administrative processes for IFR management.
• Ability to ensure data quality, reporting and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage members of the IFR team and deputise for the IFR Senior Manager.
• Deliver an effective IFR service and align processes with national guidance.
• Lead the IFR process for directly commissioned services.
• Oversee staff deployed across regional offices and ensure performance.

Skills

IFR processes

Stakeholder negotiation

Administrative process design

Data quality & reporting

Job description

Clinical Effectiveness IFR Manager | NHS England

Company:

Company: NHS England

Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum (exclusive of HCAS)

The Individual Funding Request (IFR) process is a statutory function of NHS England and decisions are made on treatment funding for individual patients covering all prescribed services. The IFR Manager (Deputy) role is critical in directly managing members of the IFR team and deputising for the IFR Senior Manager.

Please note that the base for this position would be London or a regional office where specialised commissioning teams are based.

The post holder will manage staff based in the regions. The post holder's role will be to deliver an effective service for IFRs, managing and leading staff to ensure process and practice for managing IFRs is aligned with national guidance and to lead the IFR process for directly commissioned services. The post holder will deputise for the IFR Senior Manager.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions,responsibilitiesand regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliverhigh qualitycare, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bringexpertiseacross clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025,the Government announcedthat NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions,ultimately leadingto NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we willinitiatean Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current orpreviousNHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship forexternal candidates.

Essential to the role are:

• In-depth knowledge of IFR processes and commissioning. This will support and underpin decision making with regard to IFRs.


• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups, particularly related to IFRs.


• Ability to lead in the development of administrative processes for the management of IFRs in line with NHS England IFR Policy and Standard Operating Procedure.


• Ability to lead the processes to improve and maintain data quality and accuracy, ensure the consistency in data capture and reporting; analysis and reporting of data for communication and success measurement purposes and resolving any data issues.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is Maternity Leave.

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

This advert closes on Monday 16 Nov 2026

£94,356 - £108,814 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)

£100,000 For ESM 1 = per annum (Starting from £100,000)