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Associate Director Place & Neighbourhood Great Yarmouth and Waveney
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board View all jobs
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Reference: 2467945
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board in a senior leadership role, shaping the future of place and neighbourhood health across Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
As Associate Director of Place and Neighbourhoods, you will lead the strategic commissioning and transformation of place and neighbourhood-based services, including community health and wider statutory and VCFSE out-of-hospital care. Working with Associate Directors for Primary Care and peers across Norfolk and Suffolk, you will ensure services are proactive, preventative, integrated, high quality, evidence-based and responsive to children, adults and older people.
You will lead the Be Well, Age Well and Die Well domains in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, while working collaboratively to integrate Start Well, Feel Well and Stay Well priorities within neighbourhoods and deliver measurable progress towards the three shifts of the NHS Ten Year Plan.
We are looking for an experienced and collaborative senior leader with deep healthcare commissioning expertise and the ability to work across NHS providers, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations, service users and the public. You will bring strategic vision, sound judgement and the ability to build trusted relationships and lead complex change in a politically sensitive environment.
This will be a hybrid role with some requirements for office working in Norwich, Lowestoft and Ipswich.
Main duties of the job
You will lead the development of the ICB's neighbourhood health commissioning strategy for Great Yarmouth and Waveney, aligning national policy with local population health needs, and be accountable for community health and out-of-hospital health commissioning programmes.
You will lead the full commissioning cycle, including needs assessment, service design, enabling requirements, contracting and evaluation, ensuring services are co-produced with patients, carers and communities and address health inequalities. You will manage high-value contracts, performance, risk and continuous improvement, as well as budgets, financial planning, investment prioritisation and value for money.
You will provide expert advice to executive teams, programme boards and governance committees and lead engagement with NHS trusts, local authorities and VCSE organisations. You will represent the ICB at regional and national forums, contributing to policy development and strategic alignment.
You will lead senior staff, support workforce development and foster effective matrix working across system partners. You will also be responsible for strategic and operational management, business planning, policy and service development, promoting innovation, analysing complex information and supporting evidence-based decision making across Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
Closing date: Tuesday 17 November 2026
Proposed Interview date: 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 high quality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Details
Date posted
03 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8d
Salary
£94,356 to £108,814 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
D0003-ICB047
Job locations
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
County Hall
Martineau Lane
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 2DH
United Kingdom
Job description
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.
Job description
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
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge.
- Commercial expertise.
Management
Essential
- 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.
Person Specification
Communication
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
- Education sector knowledge.
- Commercial expertise.
Management
Essential
- 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.
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
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
Address
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
County Hall
Martineau Lane
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 2DH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.norfolkandsuffolk.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
Address
Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
County Hall
Martineau Lane
Norwich
Norfolk
NR1 2DH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.norfolkandsuffolk.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)