Chief Executive
The closing date is 30 November 2025.
Are you a visionary leader ready to shape the future of health and care across Humber and North Yorkshire?
We are seeking an exceptional Chief Executive to lead the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) through a period of transformation and innovation. This is a unique opportunity to drive forward the delivery of integrated, high-quality, and equitable care for our communities.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
As Chief Executive, you will:
* Provide dynamic, visible leadership to deliver improved health outcomes and reduce inequalities.
* Champion the strategic shifts from treatment to prevention, hospital to community, and analogue to digital.
* Lead the executive team and work collaboratively with the ICB Chair, system partners, and communities.
* Ensure financial sustainability, robust governance, and measurable return on investment.
* Drive commissioning excellence and embed the Model ICB Blueprint and Ten Year Plan.
Key Responsibilities
* Set and deliver strategic objectives aligned with NHS priorities.
* Oversee transformation programmes and provider market development.
* Promote inclusive, compassionate leadership and a culture of continuous improvement.
* Ensure effective safeguarding practices for children and adults.
* Represent the ICB with integrity, transparency, and accountability.
About You
We are looking for a leader who:
* Has substantial Board-level and CEO experience in healthcare or a similarly complex environment.
* Demonstrates deep knowledge of strategic commissioning, population health, and value-based care.
* Possesses exceptional communication, analytical, and strategic problem-solving skills.
* Embodies NHS values and the principles of public life.
This is more than a leadership role; it is a chance to make a lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of our population. You will be part of a forward-thinking organisation committed to innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
About us
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning and arranging the provision of NHS services to meet the diverse health needs of a population of 1.7 million people. Our area reaches over 1,500 square miles and includes the cities of Hull and York and the large rural areas across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. The ICB is part of the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, one of 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across England to meet health and care needs, coordinate services and plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequality between groups. The Health and Care Partnership comprises NHS organisations, local councils, health and care providers and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
Job responsibilities
ICBs in England have four core objectives. These are to:
* Improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities in health
* Ensure consistently high-quality care
* Drive improved productivity
* Improve social and economic impact
In support of these four objectives, the Government has set out three strategic shifts for the NHS:
* Treatment to prevention: through proactive community and public health initiatives, working closely with local authorities, communities and individuals
* Hospital to community: Moving care closer to home by building more joined-up, person-centred care in local neighbourhoods, reducing reliance on acute care.
* Analogue to digital: Harnessing technology and data to transform care delivery and improve quality of care
The draft Model ICB Blueprint and the 10 year plan sets out the crucial role ICBs will play in delivering the three shifts and the wider 10 year plan.
Priorities
The CEO will provide dynamic, visible leadership to deliver significant and sustained improvements in care and outcomes for the local population. Working closely with the executive team, ICB Chair, and system partners, the CEO will drive forward the short-term transformation required to implement the Model ICB, embed the 2025-26 plans, and lay the foundations for neighbourhood health.
They will ensure that local changes arising from ICB redesign are well-managed and deliver tangible benefits.
The CEO will be accountable for leading the executive team and organisation to achieve the core purposes of the ICB and contribute to the ambitions of the Ten Year Plan:
Understanding population health needs, building deep analytical insights into different population groups
Work with a wide range of local stakeholders, communities and individuals to agree local priorities
Have a deep understanding of how well current services are meeting the needs of their populations and where there is room for improvement
Develop strategies for different population groups, and different service areas, to ensure optimal healthcare value maximising outcomes and minimising costs
Ensure a high quality, financially sustainable provider market with a short term focus on building neighbourhood health providers
Contract for services to deliver against ICB objectives and the three shifts
Hold providers to account for delivery against contracts
Be financially balanced
The CEO will champion collaborative working to ensure the successful transfer of functions and delivery of change in line with the Model ICB Blueprint, supporting the system to achieve its shared objectives and improve care for all.
Person Specification
Experience
* Substantial Board level and CEO experience leading significant transformational change.
* Career in healthcare or an equivalently complex, regulated, consumer facing environment.
* Proven delivery of strategies that optimise resource use and achieve lasting improvement.
* Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan, Nolan principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
* Compassionate, people centred leadership style.
* Lives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive.
* Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries.
* Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Qualifications
* Educated to Masters level or relevant specialist training or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level.
* A qualification in Leadership skills at post graduate level or equivalent leadership experience.
Knowledge and skills
* Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and of social determinants of health.
* Expert understanding of strategic commissioning, oversight and control of public funds.
* Sophisticated grasp of population health management, data analytics, predictive modelling and risk stratification.
* Deep understanding of healthcare value the relationship between outcomes achieved and resources consumed.
* Comprehensive knowledge of outcomes measurement, cost accounting methodologies and comparative effectiveness analysis.
* Expertise in value based payment reform (e.g. bundled payments, capitation, outcomes based contracts).
* Thorough knowledge of contracting and utilisation review techniques and how they drive productivity and quality.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)
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