Chief Clinical Officer
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB
Salary: Competitive | Location: Preston
Are you an experienced clinical leader who is passionate about transforming care across communities? Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, commissioned to serve over 1.8 million people, is seeking an exceptional Chief Clinical Officer to join our executive leadership team at a time of major system redesign and opportunity.
As Chief Clinical Officer you will:
Provide visible, dynamic clinical leadership across our system, shaping and delivering transformation to implement the “Model ICB” and embedding our 2025/26 plans, while building the foundations for neighbourhood-based healthcare.
Collaborate with system partners, providers, local authorities, social care, public health, community and voluntary sectors, to reduce health inequalities, improve outcomes, and embed population-health, prevention, and value-based care principles.
Lead on clinical commissioning, care coordination, utilisation review and clinical innovation — ensuring services are high quality, sustainable, equitable and responsive to population health needs.
Serve as the ICB’s nominated executive with explicit responsibility for: children and young people (0–25 years), SEND (special educational needs & disabilities), safeguarding (all ages), learning disability and autism, and all-age continuing healthcare under a unified, system-wide clinical strategy.
Act as the ICB’s Caldicott Guardian, ensuring clinical governance, medicines optimisation, quality assurance and improvement and statutory compliance across the ICB’s commissioned services.
We are looking for a senior clinician with significant leadership experience and deep knowledge of health and care systems, social determinants of health, strategic commissioning, population health management, data analytics, and value-based care. You should be a visionary and compassionate leader, able to influence widely, commission strategically, hold providers to account, and champion a culture of inclusion, transparency, continuous improvement and patient-centred care.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of health and care for an entire region, to lead system-wide change, embed new models of care, and help create resilient, equitable health services for Lancashire and South Cumbria.
If you are motivated by meaningful challenge, system-wide impact, and the chance to lead with purpose we encourage you to explore this opportunity further and contact our advisors at Alumni Global for a confidential discussion – David Heaton or Simon Green on +44 784 200 32 00 or via david.heaton@alumniglobal.com, and see Alumniglobal.com/job/LSC for further information.
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