Place Director and BCP

Place Director Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP)

The 10 year plan for Health is changing the NHS and local community landscape. In Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) we are committed to working jointly to improve the lives of the people we serve. That is why we are recruiting a Place Director for BCP. This is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of shaping health and care outcomes for one of the most diverse and rapidly evolving areas within our Integrated Care System.

This is a rare opportunity to lead integrated health and care strategy for a population with significant variation in need, from coastal communities experiencing deprivation, to vibrant student, family and retirement populations. Your leadership will directly influence how services work together to improve population health, reduce inequalities, and deliver consistently high quality care across BCP.

The Place Director is responsible for providing strategic leadership and ensuring strong local relationships between the ICB and local leaders within a defined geographical Place within the cluster (defined for this purpose as a Council area). They represent the ICB at place as a senior system leader leading the local commissioning of integrated, neighbourhood-based health and care services, ensuring alignment with local population health needs, local priorities, and system-wide objectives.

The Place Director is responsible for ensuring that commissioned services delivered by providers in their area achieve the agreed outcomes.

The post-holder will support delivery of the ICBs statutory duties at place, including promoting integration with local authorities and partners, reducing inequalities, improving service quality, and ensuring public involvement in decisions affecting local communities. The role will ensure that place-based plans and delivery arrangements comply with the NHS Constitution, safeguarding requirements, and the statutory Triple Aim, and will contribute to the ICBs duties relating to population health, quality improvement and efficient use of resources.

Overview of Our Organisation

In Dorset, we work together across Place to improve the health, wellbeing and life opportunities of the people who live and work in our communities. Our partnerships are rooted locally, bringing together organisations and teams who know their populations best and can act quickly to make a real difference.

We are part of a wider Cluster with our partners in Somerset and BSW. We will formally cluster on 1 April 2026 and then merge in April 2027. Working at both Place and Cluster level allows us to share expertise, align approaches and take forward change in a consistent, people-centred way.

What We Do

Our partnership work focuses on joining up health and care, improving population health and reducing inequalities across our local communities. By working together at Place and across the Cluster, we aim to:

• Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
• Reduce inequalities in access, experience and outcomes
• Use our resources in the most effective way
• Contribute to the wider social and economic wellbeing of our communities

We do this by strengthening collaboration, supporting prevention, using data and insight more effectively, and designing services that reflect the needs and strengths of our local populations.

Please see attached for full job description.

1. Strategic Leadership and Partnership

Lead the development and implementation of the ICB Place plan, aligned to the overall Population Health Improvement strategy.

Facilitate the development of local place-based partnerships between providers, local government and other stakeholders, including the VCSE that will enable, overtime, the delegation of place-based budgets from the ICB.

Be the face of the ICB at place, developing positive relationships with all partners and having a mandate to lead local discussions on behalf of the ICB.

Working with the Chief Officer for Population Health Improvement they will develop a deep understanding of the character and needs of the local population through local intelligence and knowledge of what the data is saying about local needs, this includes developing strong working arrangements with the Director of Public Health.

Ensure that local priorities from the place-based partnerships inform commissioning priorities at a cluster level.

Act as the ICB system convenor at Place, supporting the delivery of local service transformation.

Provider robust financial management of any delegated budgets in line with the ICBs standing financial instructions.

2. Leadership of Place based Commissioning

Lead the development of joint commissioning, in line (and informing) the overall ICB Population Health Improvement Strategy to improve population health and outcomes, reduce inequalities and improve access to consistently high quality and efficient services and drive value-based healthcare.

Identify opportunities to improve commissioning…