Chief Executive

Job description

Job responsibilities

ICBs in England have four core objectives. These are to:

• Improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities in health
• Ensure consistently high-quality care
• Drive improved productivity
• Improve social and economic impact

In support of these four objectives, the Government has set out three strategic shifts for the NHS:

• Treatment to prevention: through proactive community and public health initiatives, working closely with local authorities, communities and individuals
• Hospital to community: Moving care closer to home by building more joined-up, person-centred care in local neighbourhoods, reducing reliance on acute care.
• Analogue to digital: Harnessing technology and data to transform care delivery and improve quality of care

The draft Model ICB Blueprint and the 10 year plan sets out the crucial role ICBs will play in delivering the three shifts and the wider 10 year plan.

Priorities

The CEO will provide dynamic, visible leadership to deliver significant and sustained improvements in care and outcomes for the local population. Working closely with the executive team, ICB Chair, and system partners, the CEO will drive forward the short-term transformation required to implement the Model ICB, embed the 2025-26 plans, and lay the foundations for neighbourhood health.

They will ensure that local changes arising from ICB redesign are well-managed and deliver tangible benefits.

The CEO will be accountable for leading the executive team and organisation to achieve the core purposes of the ICB and contribute to the ambitions of the Ten Year Plan:

Understanding population health needs, building deep analytical insights into different population groups

Work with a wide range of local stakeholders, communities and individuals to agree local priorities

Have a deep understanding of how well current services are meeting the needs of their populations are where there is room for improvement

Develop strategies for different population groups, and different service areas, to ensure optimal healthcare value maximising outcomes and minimising costs

Ensure a high quality, financially sustainable provider market with a short term focus on building neighbourhood health providers

Contract for services to deliver against ICB objectives and the three shifts

Hold providers to account for delivery against contracts

Be financially balanced

The CEO will champion collaborative working to ensure the successful transfer of functions and delivery of change in line with the Model ICB Blueprint, supporting the system to achieve its shared objectives and improve care for all.

Accountabilities

The Chief Executive is accountable to the ICB Chair and Board, with performance oversight by NHS England, for delivering all statutory, strategic and financial responsibilities of the ICB. This includes establishing and leading strategic commissioning arrangements for NHS funded services, driving the transformation to the Model ICB, delivering agreed cost reduction plans and engaging staff throughout a safe transition and transfer of functions.

The postholder must maintain robust corporate, clinical, information and financial governance so that the unitary Board can discharge its duties with confidence, sustain financial balance and demonstrate clear value for money against the population health budget. A pivotal element of the role is to cultivate a sustainable provider market, rapidly align funding to outcome linked service specifications and oversee sophisticated cost and outcome analytics to assure that commissioned services maximise healthcare value.

The CEO will recruit, develop and performance manage an effective executive team, allocate NHS resources appropriately across the system, and model a transparent, collaborative partnership with the ICB Chair.

Roles and Responsibilities

Sets organisational vision, strategy and clear objectives for delivering the four ICB purposes and three strategic shifts

Drives delivery of that strategy, holding the executive team and provider market to account for outcomes, quality, cost and productivity

Ensures robust clinical, information and financial risk governance aligned with best practice commissioning and quality assurance

Promotes commissioning excellence and continuous improvement, learning from successful international models

Provides visible system leadership, codesigning priorities with local government, place partners, communities and individuals to tackle health inequalities

Stewards public money, securing financial balance and measurable return on investment in population health outcomes

Owns the culture of the ICB (jointly with the Chair), modelling NHS Constitution values, Our People Promise and Our Leadership Way

Communicates transparently with patients, public and partners, building confidence that health and healthcare are in safe hands

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial Board level and CEO experience leading significant transformational change.
• Career in healthcare or an equivalently complex, regulated, consumer facing environment.
• Proven delivery of strategies that optimise resource use and achieve lasting improvement.
• Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
• Compassionate, people centred leadership style.
• Lives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive.
• Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries.
• Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or relevant specialist training or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level.
• A qualification in Leadership skills at post graduate level or equivalent leadership experience.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and of social determinants of health.
• Expert understanding of strategic commissioning, oversight and control of public funds.
• Sophisticated grasp of population health management, data analytics, predictive modelling and risk stratification.
• Deep understanding of healthcare value the relationship between outcomes achieved and resources consumed.
• Comprehensive knowledge of outcomes measurement, cost accounting methodologies and comparative effectiveness analysis.
• Expertise in value based payment reform (e.g. bundled payments, capitation, outcomes based contracts).
• Thorough knowledge of contracting and utilisation review techniques and how they drive productivity and quality.

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 details

Employer name

Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)

Address

Health House

Grange Park Lane

Willerby

Hull

HU10 6DT

Employer's website

https://humberandnorthyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)