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The Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB Cluster (DLN Cluster) is a collaborative administrative alliance of three Integrated Care Boards. While each ICB remains a separate legal entity, they share a unified leadership structure, joint senior appointments, and connected team networks to streamline operations and strengthen strategic health commissioning across the East Midlands. Together, the cluster supports a diverse population through a shared 5-Year Population Health Strategy and an integrated Transformation Fund, helping to move healthcare resources closer to local communities.
The DLN Cluster brings together Joined Up Care Derbyshire, NHS Lincolnshire ICB, and NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB. This collaborative approach enables us to address health inequalities at regional scale while recognising and respecting the distinct priorities of our local communities. By aligning our strategic commissioning cycles, we support system-wide sustainability and deliver integrated care models that improve outcomes for local people.

  •          Prevention First: Shifting the focus from treating illness to promoting long-term population health and wellbeing.
  •          Care Closer to Home: Redesigning pathways to deliver accessible, community-based and integrated neighbourhood health services.
  •          Digital Transformation: Developing a unified DLN Digital Collaborative to expand virtual care, remote monitoring, use of the NHS App, and AI-enabled innovation.
  •          Operational Efficiency: Sharing resources to reduce running costs and maximise investment in frontline services.

Contact

Address
Bridge House
The Point
Lions Way
Sleaford
NG34 8GG

Find out more

Jobs Website
Open
Ref: 116-8196665 Vacancy ID: 8196665

Deputy Director Delivery & Transformation

Accepting applications until: 13-Aug-2026 23:59

Open

Accepting applications until: 13-Aug-2026 23:59

Location

Scarsdale
Newbold Road
Chesterfield
S41 7PF
Lincolnshire

Contract type & working pattern

Fixed term: 18 months (18 months)
Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

£112,782 - £129,783 per annum
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 9)

Specialty

Quality
Interview date
20/08/2026

JOIN A CONNECTED SYSTEM CARING FOR 3.25 MILLION LIVES ACROSS THE EAST MIDLANDS

Three ICBs, one mission: partnering across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.

The DLN Cluster has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population across Derby & Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham & Nottinghamshire and will focus on reducing health inequalities, moving care closer to home, and ensuring long-term financial and service sustainability. Its core framework targets prevention, integrated neighbourhood health models, and managing high-risk multimorbidity.

As an employee within the DLN Cluster, you will work in a progressive environment that connects regional strategy with local delivery. While our primary headquarters is at Sir John Robinson House in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, our teams work flexibly across multiple locations throughout the cluster footprint. This role could be employed by any of the organisations within the DLN Cluster.  We champion professional development, multi-organisational collaboration and digital enablement, giving our workforce the opportunity to help shape the future of the NHS.

Job overview

This post is essential to the effective delivery and transformation of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, NHS Lincolnshire and NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Cluster ICBs All Age Continuing Care/CHC/S117/ Services moving forward. The post is open to those with either a current Clinical or Professional Qualification and will work as the formal Deputy to the Director of Quality, Safeguarding, CHC and Partnerships in respect of these Services. You will have significant experience of these specialist areas of work and experience of significant service transformation along with a collaborative and compassionate style of leadership and management.

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The specific responsibilities of this post are to:

  • Lead CHC operational strategy and transformation programmes for the 128 months following appointment developing forward plans for following years
  • Manage a significant budget ensuring financial probity and delivery of agreed savings across the Cluster ICBs
  • Deliver a new model of operational delivery across the cluster that maximises integration and improvement.
  • Oversee all aspects of delivery including appeals, complaints, FOIs and SARs
  • Lead S117 oversight and joint funding processes
  • Provide strategic leadership for market management and brokerage
  • Ensure compliance with national frameworks and statutory guidance
  • Lead CHC teams across the three ICB footprints
  • Manage change programmes driving efficiency, consistency and high-quality outcomes
  • Implement redesigned models of CHC and individual care packages
  • Oversee CHC risk, performance, and reporting

Working for our organisation

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the organisation responsible for:

  • planning to meet local health needs
  • managing the NHS budget and allocating resources
  • ensuring services are in place to deliver against ambitions
  • overseeing delivery of improved outcomes for their population.

NHS Derby and Derbyshire is part of the Joined Up Care Derbyshire integrated health and care system, working with partners in our local authorities, the voluntary sector and others, and helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Deputy Director CHC/AACC/S117 Delivery and Transformation is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for the delivery, transformation and oversight of Continuing Healthcare, Children’s Continuing Care, Section 117 aftercare, joint funding, personal health budgets and individual packages of care across the ICB cluster. The postholder will lead large-scale service improvement and transformation programmes, ensuring services are efficient, consistent, financially sustainable and compliant with national frameworks and statutory guidance.
The role provides expert strategic advice on CHC-related operational, business and financial matters, with responsibility for managing significant budgets, delivering agreed savings and ensuring value for money. The postholder will oversee performance, quality assurance, risk management, appeals, complaints, FOIs and SARs, while developing new models of CHC delivery and care package management.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
  • Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent;
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, and individual provider and commissioning organisations
  • Member of relevant professional body either clinical or non-clinical

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
  • Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
  • Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively

Analytical

Essential criteria
  • High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
  • Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions
  • High level critical thinking skills
  • Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives
  • Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate

Planning Skills

Essential criteria
  • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills

Management Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership

Physical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.

Autonomy

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
  • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues

Financial and Physical Resources

Essential criteria
  • Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Hunter
Job title
Director of Safeguarding, CHC & Partnerships
Email address
[email protected]
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