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
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.
IMPORTANT: Please read the attached document which provides an overview of each of the specific roles listed above.
Please indicate on your application which role(s) you are applying for.
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
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- 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 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
- 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
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.
LNR 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.