Associate Director Regulation and Oversight

Employer NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Gail House Town Maidstone Salary £79,504 - £91,609 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/08/2026 23:59

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed by the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards; and current at-risk employees within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts.

The post holder will provide senior leadership for Kent and Medway ICB's performance, regulation and oversight responsibilities under the NHS Oversight Framework and wider corporate priorities.

The role will support the ICB to maintain a clear, evidence-based view of provider performance, regulatory risk, improvement requirements and escalation issues. The post holder will work closely with NHS England regional colleagues, provider organisations, clinical multidisciplinary teams (CMDTs) and internal ICB teams to ensure risks are understood, actions are tracked, and appropriate assurance is provided through ICB and NHS England governance routes.

Through these links the postholder will support their CMDTs to develop a strategic commissioning plan and evaluate service changes that emerge.

• Operate across three flexible elements; MDT link responsibilities, Cross-cutting oversight metrics and Provider oversight link responsibilities.
• Act as senior performance, regulation and oversight link to two clinical MDTs.
• Lead oversight of a number of metrics that do not directly align to individual MDTs, ensuring cross-cutting risks are identified, owned, triangulated and escalated.
• Direct responsibility for ICB provider oversight link arrangements for a number of providers. Provider allocation will be confirmed following appointment and will operate co-operatively with NHSE-led oversight arrangements and ICB contracting where applicable.
• Work closely with strategic commissioning colleagues to ensure that pathway design, provider delivery, regulatory assurance, performance risks and improvement requirements are understood and acted upon.
• Act as the senior ICB link for assigned providers, contributing evidence, intelligence, assurance, risk assessment and follow-up actions on behalf of the ICB.

We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.

Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.

We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.

We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

• Understand the key elements of NHS and Local Authority performance management and experience of delivery at a senior level

• Understanding its applicability to the ICB and Providers and the changes for 2026/27

• Evidence of being the performance expert in organisational committees whilst also contributing to the wider agenda

• Experience of working with providers to support planning and recovery

• Experience of producing reports for Boards and their subcommittees

• Experience of sourcing, analazing and reporting on complex data, enabling non-technical users to be able to interpret and act on the reports

• Understand key metrics and integrating performance metrics with the wider factors to produce a single organisational assurance report