Senior Clinical Quality Manager

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board; Glenfield, Pytchley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board is seeking a Senior Clinical Quality Manager to lead strategic planning and commissioning to embed quality standards across the ICB. You will translate system priorities into robust commissioning plans that improve outcomes and efficiency.

The role requires strong leadership, data-led decision making, and collaboration with providers and partners across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland.

Qualifications

• Master's level education or equivalent experience in health policy or commissioning.
• Leadership experience in health or public sector roles.
• Experience translating priorities into commissioning plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning for commissioned services.
• Ensure quality requirements reflected in contracts and specs.
• Use data and evidence to inform commissioning decisions.

Education

Master's degree or equivalent experience in health/commissioning

Leadership and people management

Data-informed decision making

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board

Senior Clinical Quality Manager

The closing date is 24 November 2026

Leading strategic planning and commissioning to embed quality standards across the Integrated Care Board (ICB). Responsible for translating system priorities into commissioning plans that improve outcomes and efficiency.

Main duties of the job

• Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
• Develop and implement commissioning strategies aligned to ICB priorities.
• Ensure contracts and service specifications reflect quality requirements.
• Use data and evidence to inform commissioning decisions and address population health needs.
• Lead strategic planning for commissioned services.
• Embed quality standards in contracts and monitor compliance.
• Support service redesign and transformation initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with providers and system partners.

About us

Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation's ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% on patch working, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.

This role will require a minimum of 2 days 'on patch' working in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in our 2 main offices or partner sites

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what is required with this post.

Person Specification

Training Knowledge & Experience

• Educated to master's level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Extensive knowledge of and expertise in specialisms relevant to function and role
• Proven and significant leadership experience
• Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Member of a relevant professional body

Communication Skills

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others

Analytical

• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution

Planning Skills

• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time

Autonomy

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Interpreting national policy for implementation

Management Skills

• Skills for direct line management and job management
• Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders

Physical Skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

Equality and Diversity

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda

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.

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board