Senior Dental Commissioning Advisor (Remote)

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125); Preston; Remote; GBP 126,000 - 154,000; Part time

Job description

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)

Professional Commissioning Advisor- Dental

The closing date is 20 November 2026

**This role can be considered as a job share with the portfolio split between assurance and transformation. Please indicate on your application if you wish to be considered for a job share**

TheProfessional Commissioning Advisor is a senior clinical and professional leadership role within the Integrated Care Board's Clinical and Care Professional Leadership (CCPL) framework.

The role exists to strengthen the use of clinical evidence, professional judgement and population insight within strategic commissioning and service improvement; bringing the specific knowledge of your professional background.

Main duties of the job

The role provides clinical advice and support to the formal delegated commissioning, contracting and assurance processes of the ICB for pharmacy, dentistry and optometry. The post holder will contribute to clinical quality improvement in pharmacy, optometry or dentistry services, including visits to practice sites.

The role will work proactively across organisational boundaries within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System and North West England and across multiple partners to improve population outcomes and the way services are delivered. The post holder is expected to operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Team within the ICB aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.

Good induction and training offered. Friendly Multi-disciplinary Team. The role is varied and involves working closely with Local Authority, Acute Trusts and with providers.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.

Job responsibilities

The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.

Providing specialty expert clinical knowledge and advice for pharmacy, eye health or dentistry matters and represent the professional voice in commissioning and transformation activity.

Leading the clinical transformation and service re-design within the ICB strategic priorities for your professional group.

Providing clinical advice into commissioning, contracting and assurance processes.

Leading the coordination of responses to population health needs at system and place level, working in a matrix with other ICB teams.

Providing professional advice within the system such as contributing to individual funding request panels. MP enquiries and clinical and contracting concerns from the public pertaining to your professional group.

Provide support to and clinical oversight of acute interface matters, clinical complaints and investigations when they pertain to pharmacy, optometry or dentistry

Work collaboratively with providers, primary care, local authorities and VCFSE partners.

Build effective relationships with a range of individuals including other care professionals, clinicians, programme leads and patients/service users across system, population footprints and neighbourhood levels

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation.
• Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area or equivalent.

Leadership

• Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multi-professional and multiple stakeholder involvement.

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of health, care and local government landscape, and integrated care agenda.
• Knowledge and understanding of population health inequalities and how these impact people's outcomes and experience of health and care provision within the place.

Experience

• Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including residents, patients and service users, their carers, and clinical and professional leaders.
• Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities.

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 Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)

£140,078 a yearAnnual salary to be pro-rated

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

24 months

Working pattern

Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working