Senior & Health Manager

Employer NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site County Hall or Haylock House Town Leicester Salary £66,582 - £77,368 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/10/2026 23:59

Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.

Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.

Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:

• Our patients and our local population come first
• We work together in an open and accountable way
• We trust, challenge and support each other
• We do what we say we will do.

The Senior Work & Health Manager will:

• Support the Head of Work & Health to lead and undertake strategic development activities across the Leicestershire Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR) Integrated Care System (ICS).

• Lead the development of an ICS strategy for Work and Health integration and development of a partnership approach to support delivery and implementation of the strategy.

• Support the Head of Work & Health to undertake the development of a range of ICS bids and business plans across the LNR Cluster Integrated Care Board (ICB) and systems.

• Developing the system strategic response to workforce, specific areas for example, health and work initiatives,

• Co-create the design and delivery plans across each local authority footprint and place areas for work and health integration which incorporates prevention; a reduction in health inequalities and how the integration can contribute and support mutually important priorities.

Key Working Relationships

The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:

• Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate
• National and regional colleagues at NHS England
• Primary Care Workforce and PCN clinical leads
• ICS partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives
• Non‑NHS organisations
• Members of the public and service users as appropriate
• Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual objectives.
• External consultancy, as required.

The Work & Health Team is a new addition to the ICB within the Strategy and Planning Directorate across the cluster ICBs.

Our aim is to support the social and economic growth within a partnership delivery model with general practice, local authority, NHS, DWP/DHSC and VCSE based on personalisation, prevention and intervention.

Within a team of built up of the Head of Work & Health, Senior Work & Health Manager, two Work & Health Programme Managers and a Work & Health Assistant Officer.

Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation’s ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health.

As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across…