Senior Clinical Quality Manager

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board; Leicester; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board is seeking a Senior Clinical Quality Manager (Band 8b) to lead strategic planning and commissioning to embed quality standards across the ICB. You will translate system priorities into commissioning plans that improve outcomes and efficiency, and work with providers and partners to deliver service improvements.

This role requires strong leadership, policy understanding, and the ability to drive data-informed decisions across Leicestershire,

Qualifications

• Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent
• Extensive knowledge of healthcare policy and NHS structures
• Proven leadership experience at a senior level
• Experience with commissioning and performance improvement
• Member of a relevant professional body

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning for commissioned services
• Embed quality standards in contracts and monitor compliance
• Develop and implement commissioning strategies
• Use data and evidence to inform decisions
• Collaborate with providers and system partners

Skills

Leadership experience

Policy engagement

Strategic planning

Data-driven decision making

Education

Master’s degree in a relevant subject

Job description

Employer NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site County Hall Town Leicester Salary £66,582 - £77,368 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/11/2026 23:59

Senior Clinical Quality Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.

Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.

Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:

• Our patients and our local population come first
• We work together in an open and accountable way
• We trust, challenge and support each other
• We do what we say we will do.

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main 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

Please note, there is an requirement for all positions at Bands 8b and above to be part of a On Call rota.

All new entrants to the ICB for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.

We are an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be welcomed and considered regardless of a person’s age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and those applicants need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, including the Job Description and Person Specification, to enable you to pursue your application, providing that you inform us of any special requirements.

L N R ICBs recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support the preparation of their application, for example to help with structure, grammar, or presentation. Applicants must ensure that all information submitted is accurate, authentic, and reflects their own skills, experience, and suitability for the role. Any use of AI in preparing an application must be clearly declared and may be explored or challenged as part of the interview and selection process.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust administer this account on behalf of the ICB, you may receive communications from both the University Hospitals of Leicester and the ICB during your recruitment.

If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within the organisation.

Right to Work in the UK and Visa Sponsorship

The ICB does not hold a Skilled Worker sponsor licence and is therefore unable to provide visa sponsorship or issue a Certificate of Sponsorship.

Applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK that permits them to undertake the role. Where an applicant's right to work is time-limited, they will be required to maintain a valid right to work for the duration of their employment.

If you are on a Graduate visa, please confirm on your application form that you have at least 12 months remaining on your visa.

Evidence of right to work in the UK will be required as part of the recruitment and pre-employment checking process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.