About this role
Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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
Person Specification
Essential
- Inclusive, compassionate and collaborative leadership. Integrity, transparency and professionalism. Commitment to equity, co-production, population health and responsible stewardship
- Registered healthcare professional with current professional registration. Educated to Master's level or able to demonstrate equivalent senior-level knowledge and experience. Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Experience of leading clinical engagement and influencing senior stakeholders where views may differ.
- Experience of using evidence, data and insight to improve outcomes.
- Strong understanding of NHS structures, strategic commissioning, clinical governance, quality improvement and population health. Understanding of health inequalities, prevention, outcomes-based approaches and value.
- Knowledge of policy, evidence and delivery issues relevant to the appointed portfolio.
- Highly developed communication, facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills, including the ability to explain complex or sensitive information clearly.
- Strategic thinking, sound judgement and the ability to analyse complex information, identify risk and formulate practical recommendations.
- Ability to prepare for and contribute effectively to meetings, complete agreed actions and disseminate outputs, while maintaining confidentiality, information governance, professional standards, equality and diversity, and effective conflict-of-interest management.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
Address
Home Breweries Building
Sir John Robinson Way
Daybrook
NG5 6DA
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://lincolnshire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)