Trustee Opportunity: Integrated Care Board Leader

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP); London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate leader to join its Board of Trustees. This unique role offers the opportunity to influence national audit programs that drive real improvements across the NHS. As a Trustee, you will leverage your expertise in integrated care and quality improvement to shape strategic decisions and ensure that audit findings translate into actionable insights for local health systems. With a modest time commitment of one to two days per month, you will engage with a diverse group of professionals dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes through data-driven initiatives. Join us in making a significant impact on healthcare quality and equity.

Benefits

Travel and expenses reimbursement

Flexible meeting arrangements

Networking opportunities with healthcare leaders

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Experience in integrated care systems and quality improvement.
• Strong background in data-driven decision-making and health equity.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and governance as a Trustee.
• Ensure alignment of national audit with local health priorities.

Skills

Leadership in Quality Improvement

Data Analysis for Health Equity

Strategic Planning and Commissioning

Performance Oversight

Transformational Change

Education

Master's Degree in Public Health

Doctorate in Medicine or Nursing

Job description

If you are a senior leader within an Integrated Care Board who is passionate about data-driven improvement and systems transformation, we invite you to take your expertise to a national platform.

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) is seeking an ICB executive leader to join our Board of Trustees. This is a unique opportunity to help align national audit intelligence with integrated care priorities, ensuring that the data gathered through HQIP’s programmes translates into real, measurable improvements across the NHS.

Whether your background is in clinical leadership, quality assurance, population health or strategy, this role allows you to bring the realities of integrated care into HQIP’s strategic thinking and shape how national audit supports better outcomes across places, systems and communities.

About HQIP

At HQIP, our role is to enable improvement through evidence. We manage the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) on behalf of NHS England, a portfolio of approximately 40 national clinical audits and registries spanning the most pressing areas of care from cardiovascular disease and stroke to emergency surgery and mental health.

These national audits do more than measure. They empower. They help hospitals and systems benchmark performance, identify unwarranted variation, and track progress against national standards. They offer ICBs robust, real-world data to inform decision-making, monitor outcomes and support transformation.

But for national audit to drive change, it must resonate with the system. It must speak the language of integrated care, population health, service redesign, place-based planning and health equity. This is why HQIP is seeking a Trustee who can help bridge the national and the local, bringing the voice of ICBs directly into our Board.

The Role

Trustee (Integrated Care Board Leader) As a Trustee, you will join a multi-professional Board that provides oversight, strategic direction and governance to HQIP as a national charity. You will act as a system-level ambassador for clinical audit, helping HQIP to remain attuned to the evolving needs of ICBs and integrated care systems.

This is a voluntary non-executive position. The time commitment is modest, approximately one to two days per month but the influence is significant. Board meetings are held quarterly, often virtually or in hybrid form, with optional involvement in committees and short-term working groups.

Your insight will help shape HQIP’s priorities, ensure the relevance of its outputs, and strengthen the connection between national audit findings and local health outcomes.

What You Will Bring

We are seeking a senior leader from an Integrated Care Board or similar system leadership context. You may be a Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nurse, Director of Quality, Director of Strategy, or a senior executive leading population health or service transformation.

You will bring:

System-Level Quality Improvement Leadership
You understand how to convene partners across providers and places to deliver collaborative improvement. You have used national data, audit results or benchmarking tools to drive change, and you can articulate how audit supports system assurance, learning and innovation.

Expertise in Health Equity and Population Health
You are experienced in using data to identify inequalities in access, experience or outcomes. You have led initiatives that focus on underserved communities, and you understand the role national audits can play in supporting the Core20PLUS5 agenda and closing the health gap.

Performance Oversight and Assurance
You are responsible for quality across a complex system and have used outcome data to support board-level assurance, hold providers to account, and celebrate high performance. You understand how to interpret and apply national KPIs within ICB quality committees and governance frameworks.

Strategic Insight into Commissioning and Planning
You are fluent in outcomes-based commissioning and system planning. You understand how national audit outputs can inform strategic investment, pathway design and value-based care, and you will guide HQIP in making those outputs more actionable for ICS leaders.

Transformational Change Expertise
You have led or supported major reconfigurations across the system and you have used audit evidence to support your case for change. Whether in stroke care, diabetes, emergency surgery or mental health, you understand how audit findings can unlock innovation and drive system reform.

Ambassadorial Leadership
You are a visible and trusted system leader with the credibility to champion HQIP’s mission. You are willing to open doors, shape partnerships, and advise on where HQIP’s presence could add value at regional or ICS level from quality boards to population health networks.

Commitment to Governance and Impact
You bring a clear understanding of the responsibilities of a trustee, including collective decision-making, organisational stewardship and a commitment to public service. Board or non-executive experience is welcome but not essential. We will support you to contribute effectively from day one.

Why This Role Matters

HQIP’s national audits provide a powerful platform for improvement, but to be effective, they must be designed and delivered with systems in mind.

As the NHS shifts towards integrated care, HQIP must ensure its programmes are aligned with ICS priorities and accessible to system leaders. From stroke to diabetes, from emergency care to elective recovery, our data must inform decisions not just at provider level, but across the entire continuum of care.

Your role as a Trustee will ensure that HQIP remains responsive to system thinking. You will influence how we develop and present our audits so they support ICB priorities: equity, quality, transformation, outcomes.

You will help ensure audit insights are not siloed, but shared across places. Not abstract, but actionable. Not delayed, but timely. And not simply used for reporting, but to drive service improvement where it matters most.

What You Will Gain

This role offers a unique opportunity to:

Shape national programmes with system-level insight

Influence the future of audit, data and improvement across the NHS

Learn from national experts in clinical quality, patient safety and data analytics

Widen your own professional networks and share best practice across the country

Contribute to a mission-driven charity with real impact on patient outcomes

You will also gain experience of national-level governance, working alongside senior clinicians, patient representatives, academics and public sector leaders, all committed to the common goal of improving care through data.

Who Should Apply

We are seeking senior leaders from Integrated Care Boards who are passionate about quality improvement and achieving system-wide impact. Whether currently in post or recently retired, you will bring valuable experience in using data to drive change, enhance outcomes, and reduce inequalities across complex care systems. If you are committed to ensuring that national audit insights translate into meaningful improvements in integrated care, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Practical Details

Time commitment: Approximately 1 to 2 days per month

Board meetings: Three Board meetings per year, virtual or hybrid

Additional involvement: Optional sub-committees or task-and-finish groups

Term of office: Three years, with potential for renewal

Remuneration: This is a voluntary position. Reasonable travel and expenses reimbursed

Support: Full induction and governance guidance provided

How to Apply

If you are passionate about quality improvement and keen to shape healthcare at a system level, we want to hear from you. To express interest in this trustee role, please send a brief cover letter and CV to [e-mail] by 30 May 2025. In your application, please highlight your relevant senior clinical leadership experience and what you believe you can contribute to HQIP’s mission.

For an informal discussion about the role, you may contact our Chief Executive or current Chair via the same email address. Further information about HQIP and our programmes can be found on our website www.hqip.org.uk.

Join us in ensuring that measuring quality of care leads to improving quality of care. Together, we can strengthen the impact of clinical audit and help deliver better outcomes for patients across the NHS.

HQIP is committed to inclusivity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage senior clinicians from diverse backgrounds to apply.

(Note: This is a voluntary non-executive trustee position. Reasonable travel and subsistence expenses will be reimbursed. Board meetings are held three times a year, two virtual Board meetings and one in-person Board meeting, which will also include the AGM, held in central London, with sub-committee meetings as needed.)

A Final Word

Integrated care systems are redefining how the NHS delivers care and national data must evolve with them.

By joining HQIP’s Board, you will help ensure our audits and registries remain relevant, usable and impactful for system leaders like yourself. You will ensure that what we measure reflects what matters. And you will play a vital role in closing the gap between insight and improvement nationally and locally.

HQIP is committed to diversity and inclusion and actively seeks candidates from a wide range of professional, regional and lived experiences. We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented on charity Boards.