Job summary
- Main area
- Chief Officer
- Grade
- Very Senior Manager (VSM)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 144-JW04-ICB-25
- Employer
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS Devon ICB, Aperture House
- Town
- Exeter
- Salary
- £126,236 - £152,971 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Primary Care, Partnerships and Place Based Delivery Officer
Very Senior Manager (VSM)
Job overview
Are you a visionary leader with the expertise and drive to shape the future of health and care delivery? If so, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. This pivotal Executive Director-level role will see you providing strategic leadership and delivery oversight for Primary Care, Partnerships, and Place-Based Delivery.
The Role
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of strategic and operational plans for the ICB, ensuring primary care and community care provision is developed to be both central to and maximise their contribution to the delivery functions of the ICB and the ICS. You will lead the development and delivery of innovative, system-wide strategies that improve quality, performance, and outcomes across Devon’s diverse communities. You will be working collaboratively with a range of system partners to address the system’s most pressing challenges. You will also play a critical role in implementing the NHS Long Term Plan at a local level, with a focus on improving service quality, tackling health inequalities, and delivering value for money.
Main duties of the job
About You
To excel in this role, you will bring substantial senior or executive-level experience within the health or social care sector, with a proven track record of system leadership and partnership working. Your expertise will include board-level leadership, demonstrating the ability to influence and drive collaborative working at scale, while fostering strong partnerships across diverse stakeholders.
You will have a deep understanding of commissioning, operational delivery, and partnership development, with a particular focus on leading integrated care strategies. Above all, you will be a passionate and innovative leader, committed to driving transformational change. With exceptional leadership skills, you will inspire, engage, and empower teams and stakeholders to deliver meaningful and lasting improvements for Devon’s population.
Why Join Us?
This is a rare opportunity to take on a high-profile executive leadership role at the heart of Devon’s Integrated Care System. You will have the chance to shape the future of care delivery, working with a wide range of partners to deliver sustainable, long-term improvements in health outcomes and inequalities. For an informal conversation, contact Steve Moore, Chief Executive Officer via [email protected]
Working for our organisation
NHS Devon Integrated Care System
As an Integrated Care System (ICS), we recognise now more than ever that we can only provide the care that people really need by working together. Together for Devon therefore represents a partnership where health and care services work together with local communities to improve peoples health, wellbeing and care. It aims to transform health and care services so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.
Our vision is simple: equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives. To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including: Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.
About NHS Devon
As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve peoples health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money. The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve peoples lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.
For more information, visit our website www.onedevon.org.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In this role you will be accountable for the strategy and the delivery for the portfolio, as appropriate. Your portfolio will include:
- Lead the strategic commissioning and transformation of primary and community care services to deliver high-quality, accessible, and sustainable care that meets population needs.
- Oversee the commissioning of pharmacy, optometry, and dental services, ensuring they are fully integrated into the wider health and care system and deliver patient-centred outcomes.
- Drive the development of integrated neighbourhood teams to deliver proactive, personalised, and place-based care tailored to local communities.
- Lead the commissioning of inclusive and responsive services for individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and neurodiverse needs, ensuring equitable access and improved outcomes.
- Oversee the strategic alignment and transformation of acute and mental health services, ensuring integrated pathways and improved patient outcomes.
- Strengthen system-wide partnerships to foster collaboration, shared accountability, and sustainable improvements in population health.
- Provide strategic leadership to ICPs and LCPs, enabling them to deliver coordinated, innovative, and community-focused care.
- Champion engagement with Primary Care Collaboratives, VCSE organisations, PCNs, and end-of-life care providers to ensure their contributions shape system transformation.
- Oversee statutory partnership commissioning arrangements, including the Better Care Fund, ensuring resources deliver integrated care and measurable outcomes
- Delivery of operational components in respect to yearly operational plan and the Devon Transformation Plan
This is a unique opportunity to lead and shape Devon’s health and care landscape, ensuring services are innovative, integrated, and responsive to the needs of local populations.
Person specification
Personal values
Essential criteria
- Personally committed to upholding the NHS principles and values as set out in the NHS Constitution, the Joint Forward Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principles and Fit and Proper Persons regime, along with an ability to reflect them in their leadership role and the culture of NHS Devon.
- Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
- Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
- Committed to continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of senior level or executive director level leadership within a health or social care organisation.
- Board level leadership experience and/or system leadership experience in performance improvement, operational planning and strategic commissioning or similar is essential.
- Experience of providing strategic leadership, mentorship, and professional development at a very senior level with demonstrable outcomes.
- Experience of delivering large scale change and improvement programmes, preferably across multiple organisations and within the health or social care sector, developing and building teams to improve outcomes.
- Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with stakeholders.
- Experience of managing relationships with the media and political stakeholders.
- Experience of leading highly complex and contentious quality improvement/ transformational change at significant scale, working with patients and people with lived experience.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health.
- Current evidence and thinking on practices which reduce health inequality, improve patient access, safety and ensure organisations are ‘Well-led’.
- Extensive knowledge of health and care financial planning and budgeting at a board and/or system level.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Exceptional communication skills which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership.
- Demonstrate presence, dynamism, energy, vision and passion; engaging people by the way they communicate, behave and interact with others.
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numerical excellence.
- Highly sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.
- Determination, perseverance and resilience to react flexibly and operate in a complex, rapidly changing and often ambiguous environment.
- Demonstrate independence of thought, emotional intelligence, the ability to work through conflict and the ability to demonstrate a range of leadership styles to secure results.
- A high level of political astuteness with a natural ability to thrive in complex political environments whilst always acting in a manner consistent with their values.
- Ability to network and recognise key influencers; engaging them effectively to enable agreed outcomes to be delivered.
- The ability to influence and persuade others articulating a balanced, not personal, view and to engage in constructive debate without being adversarial or losing respect and goodwill.
- Self-aware and an ability to understand personal strengths and weaknesses to optimise leadership impact; seeking advice when required and securing a full range of management expertise to enable achievement of strategic objectives to optimise leadership impact.
- Think conceptually and plan flexibly for the longer term and continually seek ways to improve.
- Demonstrate independence of thought, emotional intelligence, the ability to work through conflict and ambiguity.
- The confidence to question information and explanations supplied by others, who may be experts in their field.
- The ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from a wide number of perspectives and especially external and user perspectives.
- Leads by example to demonstrate a commitment to the NHS People Promise.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree level education or equivalent level of specialist knowledge and experience.
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Moore
- Job title
- Chief Executive Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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