JOIN A CONNECTED SYSTEM CARING FOR 3.25 MILLION LIVES ACROSS THE EAST MIDLANDS
Three ICBs, one mission: partnering across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.
The DLN Cluster has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire and will focus on reducing health inequalities, moving care closer to home, and ensuring long-term financial and service sustainability. Its core framework targets prevention, integrated neighbourhood health models, and managing high-risk multimorbidity.
As an employee within the DLN Cluster, you will work in a progressive environment that connects regional strategy with local delivery. While our primary headquarters is at Sir John Robinson House in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, our teams work flexibly across multiple locations throughout the cluster footprint. This role could be employed by any of the organisations within the DLN Cluster. We champion professional development, multi-organisational collaboration and digital enablement, giving our workforce the opportunity to help shape the future of the NHS.
Job overview
Seven portfolio opportunities | Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire ICB Cluster | Two-year appointments | Four or five sessions per week
We are seeking seven exceptional senior clinical and professional leaders to join the Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire (DLN) ICB Cluster as Associate Directors of Outcomes. These influential roles offer a unique opportunity to shape strategic commissioning, clinical effectiveness and population health improvement across three integrated care systems, helping to secure better, fairer and more sustainable outcomes for our communities.
The opportunity
Working with Directors of Outcomes, Clinical Cabinets, DLN Programme Boards, clinical networks and partners across health and care, you will provide visible and credible leadership for an allocated portfolio. You will bring together clinical expertise, evidence, population health intelligence and lived experience to inform priorities, redesign pathways, reduce unwarranted variation and translate ambition into measurable improvements in outcomes.
You will chair and develop relevant DLN clinical networks, advise senior leaders on complex clinical and strategic issues, and provide constructive challenge and assurance. Each appointment will combine commissioning, clinical effectiveness and corporate responsibilities, with the balance tailored to the portfolio and agreed work plan.
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Available portfolios
- Portfolio 1 – Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism; Mortality and Outcomes; Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- Portfolio 2 – Urgent and Emergency Care; Frailty; Palliative and End of Life Care
- Portfolio 3 – Women’s Health; Clinical Effectiveness; Quality Improvement
- Portfolio 4 – Planned Care; Children and Young People’s Health; Childhood Obesity
- Portfolio 5 – Primary Care; Multimorbidity; Long Term Conditions; Knowledge Management
- Portfolio 6 – Population Health Outcomes; Prevention; Immunisations and Vaccination; Screening; Clinical Policies
You will be a registered healthcare professional with senior clinical or professional leadership experience in a health and care environment. You will understand strategic commissioning, clinical governance, quality improvement, population health and the importance of improving value and reducing inequalities.
We are looking for inclusive, compassionate and collaborative leaders who can build trusted relationships across organisational and professional boundaries, work confidently through ambiguity and use evidence, insight and sound judgement to influence change. You will be able to engage a wide range of perspectives, explain complex issues clearly and maintain a strong focus on safety, equity, outcomes, affordability and responsible stewardship of NHS resources.
Working for our organisation
The DLN Cluster, comprising Derby & Derbyshire ICB, Lincolnshire ICB, and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB, offers prospective employees a unique opportunity to contribute to healthcare innovation focused on reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for local communities. By joining our team, you will help develop integrated neighbourhood health models that bring care closer to home and support proactive, preventative approaches. We are committed to sustainable, high-impact clinical excellence and support innovation through dedicated transformation funding, turning ideas for improvement into frontline delivery. At the DLN Cluster, your career will be shaped by meaningful system-wide change, collaborative working, and the opportunity to help build a healthier, fairer future for diverse communities across the region.
This role may be employed by any organisation within the DLN Cluster.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is an opportunity to work at scale while remaining connected to local priorities and communities. You will join a developing Strategic Clinical Leadership team and be supported by a Faculty which combined will contribute to high-profile programmes of system change and help shape how clinical leadership supports better decision-making across the DLN Cluster in order to impact on population outcomes. In return, you will have the opportunity to extend your influence, work alongside leaders from a wide range of professions and sectors, and make a tangible contribution to improving care and outcomes.
Commitment: Four or five four sessions per week (session = 4 hours). Flexibility, including job shares or secondments will be considered.
How to apply: Please submit your application on Trac, setting out the portfolio or portfolios for which you wish to be considered and how your experience meets the requirements of the role within your supporting statement at the end.
Interview date: Thursday 19th November, 2026. Interviews will be face to face in Nottinghamshire
PLEASE NOTE THIS VACANCY MAY CLOSE BEFORE THE ADVERTISED CLOSING DATE IF A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF SUITABLE APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED. EARLY APPLICATION IS THEREFORE RECOMMENDED.
All reference requests will be made to your employer/previous employers' HR Department, covering the previous 3 years of employment.
We actively promote equal opportunities and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible people regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment.
Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes. All staff with patient contact will need to have gained clearance through a standard or enhanced DBS check prior to working in these roles.
Please note interview expenses are not subsidised or reimbursed by this organisation.