Clinical Lead Clinical Standards & Utilisation Management

Central East Integrated Care Board; Ely; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Central East Integrated Care Board in the United Kingdom is seeking a Clinical Lead to provide senior strategic leadership across a broad portfolio and deputise for the Executive Team Leader. The role involves shaping service policy, interpreting national guidance, and monitoring performance to deliver NHS objectives across our multi-county area.

You will lead complex programmes, oversee staff and budgets, and drive improvements in quality, efficiency and patient outcomes across the ICB.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Extensive leadership experience in health and care commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted Associate Clinical for the Executive Team Leader, ensuring continuity of leadership and decision-making.
• Lead a diverse portfolio of complex programmes and services, driving improvements in quality, efficiency, and outcomes.
• Provide visible leadership across the organisation and the wider system, fostering collaboration and accountability.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

NHS AfC: Band 9

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.

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

Job overview

The Clinical Lead plays a pivotal leadership role within the Integrated Care Board (ICB), deputising for the Executive Team Leader and supporting the wider management team in delivering the ICB’s strategic objectives. This is a senior position with a broad and dynamic portfolio, requiring significant expertise, operational oversight, strategic leadership, and system-wide collaboration.

The post holder takes a lead role in development, interpretation, implementation and monitoring of the service policy and strategy, interpreting and implementing national guidance and updates for area of expertise across the organisation. This involves the consideration of a number of options, and adaptations of plans to ensure delivery.
Is an expert resource in their field, analysing performance of services and programmes of work against performance targets. Measure and articulate contribution to the delivery ofstrategic objectives, leading on the development of strategies and business plans to drive performance.

Main duties of the job

The postholder is responsible for the staff and budget for their portfolio of services and projects.The purpose includes:
1.To act as a trusted Associate Clinical for the Executive Team Leader, ensuring continuity of leadership and decision-making.
2.To lead a diverse portfolio of highly complex programmes and services, driving improvements in quality, efficiency, and outcomes.
3.To provide visible leadership across the organisation and the wider system, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation.

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

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on the role, including the key responsibilities, required experience and person requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

• Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent level of experience in a relevant field
• Extensive leadership experience in a complex, multi-agency environment, ideally within health and care commissioning

Please Note:

• This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received. We recommend submitting your application early to avoid disappointment.
• Successfully shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email with an invitation to interview.
• Please note that we do not pay interview expenses, all costs are incurred by the candidate.

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.