Employer North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Pemberton House Town Sunderland Enterprise Park Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2025 23:59

Director of Population Health

NHS AfC: Band 9

Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!

Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.

Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• Supportive team environment
• Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work

Job overview

Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!

A unique opportunity has arisen for a Director of Population Health, working in the largest Integrated Care System in the country, serving a population of approximately 3.2m across the North East and North Cumbria. We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Director of Population Health to join our Medical Directorate. At the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we are committed to providing high-quality care and support to our community.

Main duties of the job

Here are our four key goals…

· Longer and healthier lives

· Better health and care services

· Giving children and young people the best start in life

The postholder will have significant public health leadership and system level experience including leading and delivering complex change, service transformation and strategy development in a politically sensitive and complex environment. In line with legislation, inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC or Specialist List or inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists at the point of application. The postholder will operate strategically across the ICB corporate directorates including the six local delivery teams (LDTs); and be a key interface between the ICB and ICP.

Working for our organisation

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.

The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The core focus of this job is to understand and enhance the health and wellbeing of the people of the North East and North Cumbria. The post holder will be a visionary and transformational leader who will advise the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and influence strategic system partnerships to focus on prevention, health and healthcare inequalities, and use of the best data, intelligence and evidence to inform commissioning decisions.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Inclusion in the GMC Full and Specialist Register with a license to practice/GDC Specialist List Or Inclusion in the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists
• If an applicant is UK trained in Public Health, they must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), If an applicant is non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
• Applicants must meet minimum CPD requirements (i.e. be up to date) in accordance with Faculty of Public Health requirements or other recognised body
• MFPH by examination, by exemption or by assessment
• Masters in public health or equivalent

Experience

• If included in the GMC Specialist Register/GDC Specialist List in a specialty other than public health medicine/dental public health, candidates must have equivalent training and/or appropriate experience of public health practice
• Strong experienced senior leader adept at leading change in a complex and dynamic environment, with an engaging, adaptable, leadership style which connects with people at all levels.
• Media experience demonstrating delivery of effective health behaviour or health promotion messages.
• Experience of using complex information to explain public health issues to a range of audiences.
• Significant experience of managing people/teams.

The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a riskto the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do nothold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Name Neil O'Brien Job title Recruiting Manager Email address neilobrien@nhs.net Telephone number 07930148072

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
Telephone 0191 203 1415