Deputy Director Age Continuing Care

This Deputy Director post sits within NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board's All Age Continuing Care function and reports to the Executive Nurse Director. The postholder leads the ICB's statutory continuing care responsibilities, overseeing quality, performance, transformation and budgets. The work is system-wide, building integrated services with NHS bodies, councils and independent and third-sector providers. Candidates need significant senior leadership experience and must be able to travel across the footprint and work occasional weekends.

• Provide strategic and professional leadership for the ICB's All Age Continuing Care function across West Yorkshire
• Ensure safe, effective, personalised, high-quality care in line with statutory, regulatory and national requirements
• Lead service transformation, quality improvement and assurance programmes, reducing unwarranted variation
• Oversee performance, activity and financial information to ensure value for money
• Work with NHS organisations, local authorities and system partners to develop integrated services and jointly commissioned care
• Lead, inspire and develop multi-functional teams, building a culture of inclusion and continuous improvement
• Provide expert advice on commissioning, service redesign and national policy
• Build relationships with senior leaders, partners, patients and communities, influencing system-wide change
• Manage significant budgets and resources, with strong governance and financial control
• Translate national and local priorities into sustainable improvements for patients, families and communities

• Masters-level education or equivalent experience
• Professional clinical qualification, e.g. nursing, AHP or social work
• Evidence of continuing professional development

• Senior leadership of multi-function teams
• Leading complex or contentious change and service transformation
• Accountability for multi-million-pound budgets
• Multi-agency strategy and planning, and influencing system-wide change
• Translating policy into strategy and transformation
• Experience of highly sensitive situations involving patients, families, carers or advocates

• In-depth knowledge of NHS, social care and local authority systems
• NHS policy, planning, commissioning, performance and governance
• AACC and improvement knowledge
• Commitment to continuous improvement

• Ability to travel across the ICs/ICB footprint
• Flexible working, including occasional weekends

• Postgraduate leadership and/or management qualification
• Board-level experience
• Experience leading organisations