Director of Nursing and Quality – Complex Care in Kettering

We are seeking an exceptional and visionary senior nurse leader to join the Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR ICB) & Northamptonshire (ICB) Cluster as our Director of Nursing and Quality - Complex Care. This is a rare opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping system-wide services during a period of significant transformation, leading the delivery of high-quality, safe, and integrated care for some of our most vulnerable population.

Reporting to the Chief Nursing Officer, you will provide ICB senior leadership for safeguarding and high-complexity care, including individuals with significant health, social, and developmental needs across SEND and vulnerable populations.

Please note 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.

The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning, commissioning, and improving local health services. As part of the LLR and Northamptonshire ICB Cluster, we are working collaboratively to develop a shared strategic operating model, strengthen system integration, and improve outcomes across Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Northamptonshire. The CHC portfolio is a critical component of this, ensuring that individuals with the most complex health needs receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time, delivered in a way that is safe, personalised, and sustainable.

You will join a forward-thinking executive leadership team committed to improving quality, reducing inequalities, and delivering high-value, person-centred care across the system.

Main duties of the job:

Please refer to the detailed Job Description document which can be found in the 'Documents' section.

Person Specification

• Knowledge, Training and Experience
• Current valid registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• 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
• Significant evidence of continued professional development
• Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
• Member of a relevant professional body
• Desirable
• Education sector knowledge
• Experience and/or understanding of the wider Health Economy
• Commercial expertise
• Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
• Development and delivery of strategy and planning
• Communication Skills
• Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
• Commitment to listen to different views and opinions to drive better results
• Analytical
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusion to inform initiatives
• Planning Skills
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking, and planning with highly developed political skills
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
• Desirable
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
• Autonomy
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• Management Skills
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
• Ability to delegate effectively
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
• Physical Skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
• Equality and Diversity
• Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer name: NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board

Address: Haylock House, Kettering Parkway, Kettering, NN15 6EY, United Kingdom