Associate Director Place & Neighbourhood Great Yarmouth and Waveney

Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board

Associate Director Place & Neighbourhood Great Yarmouth and Waveney

The closing date is 17 November 2026

This is an exciting opportunity to joinNorfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board in a senior leadership role, shapingthe future of place and neighbourhood health across Great Yarmouth and Waveney.

As Associate Director of Place andNeighbourhoods, you will lead the strategic commissioning and transformation ofplace and neighbourhood-based services, including community health and widerstatutory and VCFSE out-of-hospital care. Working with Associate Directors forPrimary Care and peers across Norfolk and Suffolk, you will ensure services areproactive, preventative, integrated, high quality, evidence-based andresponsive to children, adults and older people.

You will lead the Be Well, Age Well and DieWell domains in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, while working collaboratively tointegrate Start Well, Feel Well and Stay Well priorities within neighbourhoodsand deliver measurable progress towards the three shifts of the NHS Ten YearPlan.

We are looking for an experienced andcollaborative senior leader with deep healthcare commissioning expertise andthe ability to work across NHS providers, local authorities, voluntary sectororganisations, service users and the public. You will bring strategic vision,sound judgement and the ability to build trusted relationships and lead complexchange in a politically sensitive environment.

This will be a hybrid role with somerequirements for office working in Norwich, Lowestoft and Ipswich.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the development of the ICB'sneighbourhood health commissioning strategy for Great Yarmouth and Waveney,aligning national policy with local population health needs, and be accountablefor community health and out-of-hospital health commissioning programmes.

You will lead the full commissioning cycle,including needs assessment, service design, enabling requirements, contractingand evaluation, ensuring services are co-produced with patients, carers andcommunities and address health inequalities. You will manage high-valuecontracts, performance, risk and continuous improvement, as well as budgets,financial planning, investment prioritisation and value for money.

You will provide expert advice to executiveteams, programme boards and governance committees and lead engagement with NHStrusts, local authorities and VCSE organisations. You will represent the ICB atregional and national forums, contributing to policy development and strategicalignment.

You will lead senior staff, support workforcedevelopment and foster effective matrix working across system partners. Youwill also be responsible for strategic and operational management, businessplanning, policy and service development, promoting innovation, analysingcomplex information and supporting evidence-based decision making across GreatYarmouth and Waveney.

Proposed Interviewdate: Friday 11 December 2026 at County Hall, Norwich

About us

We manage an annual budget of £4.9 billion to commission safe, high quality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.

We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.

Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joined up care.

Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an older than average population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.

Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joined up, patient centred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to hight quality services.

We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification

Communication

• 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.

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.
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• 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.
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
• Member of a relevant professional body.
• Experience and/or understanding of the wider Health Economy.
• Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
• Education sector knowledge.
• Commercial expertise.

Management

• 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 work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.

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.

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Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board

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