Job overview

Are you ready to make an impact, lead positive change, and shape the future of patient services?

Do you excel at managing multiple priorities, influencing others, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment?

We are seeking a dynamic and confident Partnerships Manager to join our team, playing a key role in delivering community-based commissioning and transformation across Derbyshire. This position requires travel within the Derbyshire region and offers flexibility with a hybrid work model, combining home and office-based working.

This fixed-term contract or secondment is available until 30th September 2026. If you’re driven by purpose and eager to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is unable to sponsor international applicants in this role.  

Interviews will be held on Friday 10th January 2025.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in service transformation and commissioning, coupled with outstanding organisational and project management abilities. In this role, you will take the lead on specific work areas, engaging and collaborating with a diverse range of system partners and stakeholders. You will gain in-depth knowledge in your areas of responsibility, providing oversight for effective service delivery and pathways and fostering improvement opportunities across the system.

Above all, you’ll bring enthusiasm, motivation, and excellent communication and influencing skills, along with a genuine passion for enhancing patient experiences and healthcare services across Derbyshire.

Please ensure you have approval from your employer or line manager before submitting a secondment application.

Working for our organisation

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population. ICSs are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £1.6 billion the ICB has a staff base of approximately 500 people.

At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.  Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.  If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.