Job summary

We are looking for an exceptional candidate for a Chief Commissioning Officer role across South East London ICB and South West London ICB working together as an Integrated Care Board cluster. This role will be pivotal for the clustered ICBs as they refocus on strategic commissioning for a population of 3.8 million people with a commissioning budget of £4.75 billion for South East London and £4.3 billion for South West London.

The successful candidate must have the experience and capability to lead and inspire others to seize the opportunities of a period of transformation for ICBs. They will need the determination and discipline to make sure strategic and operational plans address local need, drive out inequality, deliver value for money and secure improved outcomes for local residents across 12 boroughs. In doing so they will have the vision and ambition to realise the potential of neighbourhood working, population health management and digital technology, and will align the commissioning process to deliver the Governments three strategic shifts: from treatment to prevention, from hospital to community, and from analogue to digital.

We would love to hear from candidates with significant commissioning expertise, a proven track record of successful strategic leadership, and who are excited by the possibilities of this complex and challenging role across the second largest ICB footprint in the country.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be a core member of the shared ICB executive team and a full Board member of both ICBs and will need to work effectively with professional peers and stakeholders spanning the health and care system. Responsibilities will include:

The ICB's Strategic Commissioning Function

Leading, convening and coordinating the ICB's strategic and operational planning process

Securing market development and management and utilisation management approaches

Commissioning end to end care pathways, inclusive of care pathway redesign and service specification

Leading and overseeing the contracting and payment mechanisms to secure delivery

Effective monitoring and management of operational delivery and performance

Development and provision of the data analytics and insights function

Delivering the System Coordination Centre and EPRR functions

Leading the commissioning development agenda including the development of new contracting and payor models and commissioning approaches

Ensuring the effective development of strategic commissioning capabilities within the Directorate and wider organisation

About us

About NHS South East and NHS South West London ICBs

In 2025, the boards of NHS South East London ICB and NHS South West London ICB took the decision to enter into a clustering arrangement. This means that we share a chair, chief executive officer and an executive team, but we remain as separate, statutory organisations.

This also means that the ICBs will share some teams, who will be working across both organisations. Some teams will also be working across both geographical areas and integrated care systems.

This is a period of change for the NHS. The Government's 10 Year Health Plan presents an ambitious vision for a future NHS, with emphasis on the three 'shifts' - from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from cure to prevention - all underpinning the new neighbourhood health service.

ICBs are also changing, with a clear focus on strategic commissioning and delivering neighbourhood working.

This is an exciting time to work within our ICBs. We currently have the opportunity both to shape the future of our clustered organisations, and to be part of a radical transformation of care for the local people and communities across south London.

And while our two ICBs are different in some ways, improving lives for the people we serve is at the core of what we are both here to do.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the roles responsibilities.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the roles responsibilities.

Person Specification

Personal Values

Essential

• Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial board level leadership experience and/or system leadership experience within the health and care sector or similar environment is essential.
• Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with stakeholders.
• Experience of providing Commissioning leadership, mentorship, and professional development at a very senior level with demonstrable outcomes.
• Experience of leading highly complex and contentious transformational change at significant scale
• Experience of delivering projects or programmes across multiple different organisations without line management authority

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the resourcing implications related to 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 commissioning at a board and/or system level.

Skills

Essential

• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a jointstrategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numeracy.
• Highly sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level with a Masters or equivalent qualification or experience. with evidence of continuing professional development.

Person Specification
Personal Values

Essential

• Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial board level leadership experience and/or system leadership experience within the health and care sector or similar environment is essential.
• Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with stakeholders.
• Experience of providing Commissioning leadership, mentorship, and professional development at a very senior level with demonstrable outcomes.
• Experience of leading highly complex and contentious transformational change at significant scale
• Experience of delivering projects or programmes across multiple different organisations without line management authority

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the resourcing implications related to 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 commissioning at a board and/or system level.

Skills

Essential

• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a jointstrategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numeracy.
• Highly sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level with a Masters or equivalent qualification or experience. with evidence of continuing professional development.

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 details

Employer name

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
Address

Tooley Street

160 Tooley Street

London

SE1 2TZ

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