Associate Clinical Director Clinical AdvisoryNHS
Job summary
The Associate Clinical Director for Clinical Leadership and Advice provides strategic and technical clinical oversight across all functions of the Integrated Care Board (ICB), ensuring that decisions are grounded in robust clinical evidence, governance, and population health priorities. This senior role acts as a key clinical advisor, offering expert input into commissioning, transformation, and operational delivery. The postholder leads on embedding clinical leadership across the system, supports multidisciplinary collaboration, and ensures that technical clinical advice informs service design, risk management, and quality improvement
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership and direction, in line with the ICB strategic plan, for evidence-based clinical policy formation, management of individual funding requests and processes for people for whom the commissioning route for their care is not clear.Together with other Clinical Directors work to design and implement an increasing range of utilisation management techniques to enable the ICB to improve outcomes whilst maximising technical and allocative efficiency of resourcesWork through clinical policy formation and implementation to ensure continuously improving outcomes, reduced inequalities, and delivering best value for money and financial sustainability at ICB and local system level.Ensure that clinical policy work and routes for individual funding requests are as easy to use as possible for people in the population and clinical staff.
Job description
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About us
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.
We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.
We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.