Senior Strategic Commissioning Manager / Neighbourhood Liaison Manager

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board; Kettering; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced Senior Strategic Commissioning Manager / Neighbourhood Liaison Manager. The role involves leading commissioning strategies, neighbourhood plans, and implementing outcome-based contracts across multiple portfolios to deliver integrated care.

Based in the NHS system, you will manage budgets, drive service redesign, and collaborate with clinicians, local authorities, and partners to improve access, outcomes and value for money.

Qualifications

• Masters level or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Extensive leadership experience in healthcare settings.
• Proven track record in strategic commissioning and transformation.
• Understanding of current healthcare policy and engagement implications.
• Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement commissioning strategies and neighbourhood plans embedding prevention and integrated care.
• Lead the design and implementation of outcome-based contracts with clear accountability and metrics.
• Manage delegated budgets for portfolios with cost improvement delivery.
• Drive service redesign and improvement with clinicians, providers, and local partners.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Contract design

Budget management

Communications

Education

Master's degree in relevant subject

Senior leadership experience in healthcare

Post-qualification CPD

Healthcare policy understanding

Member of a relevant professional body

Tools

MS Office

Job description

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board

Senior Strategic Commissioning Manager / Neighbourhood Liaison Manager

The closing date is 11 November 2026

Senior Strategic Commissioning Manager / Neighbourhood Liaison Manager (Band 8b)

NHS Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland and NHS Northamptonshire ICBs We are seeking experienced and dynamic Senior Strategic Commissioning Manager / Neighbourhood Liaison Managers. These are pivotal roles across Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire providing senior leadership for the commissioning and transformation of health services.

There are 4 vacant posts available across the Neighbourhoods, Community, Children and Young People and Urgent and Emergency Care portfolios.

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

Main duties of the job

• A senior role withing the ICB developing and implementing commissioning strategies and neighbourhood-level plans (where appropriate), embedding integrated care, prevention, and population health management principles.
• You will develop and implement commissioning strategies and neighbourhood-level plans for embedding prevention, early intervention, and integrated care principles.
• Lead the design and implementation of outcome-based contracts for ensuring clear accountability, performance metrics, and compliance with Provider Selection Regime requirements.
• Manage delegated budgets for portfolios, maintaining financial control, sustainability, and delivery of cost improvement plans.
• Drive service redesign and improvement initiatives, working collaboratively with clinicians, providers, local authorities, VCSE partners, and neighbourhood teams to improve access, experience,and health outcomes.

About us

We are looking for a strategic commissioner and leader who can define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of integrated care at Neighbourhoods and make a lasting difference for the populations of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland.

Job responsibilities

As a senior commissioning leader, you will:

• Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model
• Lead the design and implementation of outcome-based contracts, ensuring clear accountability, performance metrics, and value for money.
• Provide professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate.
• Formulate long term strategic plans, involving uncertainly, which may impact on the whole of the organisation.
• Be responsible for policy implementation and policy or service development for a service which impacts across the wider health econom

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to masters 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
• Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
• 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 organisation

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 & Planning Skills

• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and 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

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.

Employer name

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board