Chief Executive Officer

NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

OneGloucestershire ICS is a well-established partnership of health and care organisations based around trusted and collaborative relationships that are working hard to deliver joined-up services and support for the people of Gloucestershire.

There has never been a more exciting time to join us as we continue our journey as an ICB. Working with our dedicated OneGloucestershire partners, we have a clear and ambitious five-year ICS strategy in place and a Joint Forward Plan underpinned by the same core strategic pillars.

Following the recent publication of Lord Darzi’s Report Independent Investigation of the NHS in England, we believe that Gloucestershire is in a strong position having identified and prioritised many of the underlying findings and long-standing challenges. However, we are not complacent about the size and scale of the task ahead. Moving forward, NHS Gloucestershire ICB will have a pivotal role to play in addressing these significant challenges facing the health and care sector, aligning our shared strategic plans with the emerging 10 Year Health Plan and meeting the needs of our current population and the needs of future generations. As an ICB, we recognise that we cannot do this alone. We have developed a strong track record for engagement and partnership working and this will continue to be the driving force behind improving health and wellbeing, improving care and outcomes for our citizens and tackling unacceptable and long-standing health inequalities.

Main duties of the job

It is against this backdrop that we embark on the process of appointing our new Chief Executive Officer. They will play a leading and inspirational role working with our local health and care professionals and our fantastic partners, at system, locality and neighbourhood level, including local councils and other public, community and voluntary sector colleagues.

As the successful candidate you will provide highly effective and compassionate leadership across the system, including to our dedicated health and care professionals within the ICB.

You will drive improvement in health and wellbeing and in care and services, with a key focus on population health, a greater shift from hospital to community, including improved access, leading edge acute services and digital innovation. As head of the ICB leadership team, you will lead and influence complex transformation and improvement, through collaboration and mature partnership working.

We are looking for an experienced and highly effective board member, with strong strategic leadership skills and a track record of leading change within a politically charged environment. You will have the highest levels of personal integrity, be community focused, with a strong social purpose. You will also demonstrate a deep commitment to championing diversity, inclusion, and equality of opportunity for all.

About us

Our NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (NHS Gloucestershire) is responsible for planning and buying services to meet the health needs of local people. It also brings partners together to ensure the county’s NHS provides the best possible care. Alongside our communities, we want to improve health, improve access to high quality care and support when needed and make Gloucestershire a better place for the future.

NHS Gloucestershire ICB had the best staff survey result in 2023 for proportion of staff who would recommend it as a place to work.

More information about our organisation can be found here: NHS Gloucestershire ICB (nhsglos.nhs.uk)

Job responsibilities

We are an effective and high performing ICB who have established a strong tradition of partnership working, cooperation and making the most of the Gloucestershire pound and our focus on this continues to grow. If you share our ambitions and vision and would like to help lead us on our continued journey, then we look forward to receiving your application and meeting with you in due course.

Recruitment Timetable:

Applications Close: Sunday, 5 January 2025

Shortlisting Interviews: w/c 13 January 2025

Stakeholder Group Sessions: Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Final Interviews: Friday, 7 February 2025

To find out more about this post, please contact our recruitment partner, Finegreen.

To request a copy of the information pack, or for an exploratory and confidential conversation about the post, please contact Joe Joyce and Natasha Parmar on

We would particularly encourage applications from candidates with protected characteristics, as we are committed to improving diversity within our system.

Person Specification

Skills

• Exceptional communication skills which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and partnerships.
• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem-solving: the ability to anticipate and frame issues to drive effective strategy, problem resolution and action.
• Analytical rigour and numeracy will play a key role in this.
• Sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.

Personal Values

• Personal commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
• Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, and inclusion (in respect of boards, patients, and staff).
• Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.

Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health.
• Current thinking on practices which reduce health inequality, improve patient access, safety and Well Led.
• Sound understanding of strategic financial planning, oversight, and control of significant public funds.

Experience

• Executive health care experience is essential. Additional experience outside of health is desirable.
• Substantial experience of operating at board level, leading across a complex and regulated environment.
• A track record of navigating the media and political stakeholders will be key.
• Experience of delivering digital and workforce transformation at scale.

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.

Employer name

NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

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