Deputy Director – Neighbourhood Health: Sponsorship Available

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

Job summary

Help shape the next chapter of neighbourhood health in Kent and Medway. As Deputy Director of Neighbourhood Health and Community Services, you will provide senior strategic leadership for the development and commissioning of integrated, high-quality services, turning ambition into meaningful change for our communities.

Kent and Medway is the first Integrated Care Board (ICB) to have developed a local variation to the Primary Care Network Directed Enhanced Service (PCN DES), underpinning our neighbourhood model. This is an opportunity to build on that pioneering foundation and help shape what comes next. Working with NHS partners, local authorities, primary care and voluntary and community organisations, you will develop neighbourhood health models that respond to population needs, improve outcomes and reduce inequalities. You will lead the community and neighbourhood health elements of our five-year strategy, translating national policy and local intelligence into clear commissioning priorities and service transformation.

Children and young people will be central to your work. You will champion their voices and lived experiences, working with them and their families to shape services that meet their needs and create seamless pathways across all ages.

You will combine strategic vision with a strong focus on delivery, overseeing delegated budgets, contracts and quality to ensure value for money and statutory compliance. Providing expert advice, building strategic partnerships and deputising for the Commissioning Director for Primary, Community and Neighbourhood Health as required, you will help turn shared priorities into integrated services for the people of Kent and Medway. If you are motivated by the opportunity to shape services, bring partners together and make a lasting difference, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the community services and neighbourhood health elements of the ICB’s five-year strategy, shaping commissioning intentions, needs assessments and planning processes. Building on the local variation to the PCN DES that underpins our neighbourhood model, you will develop and commission the next phase of neighbourhood health, aligned to national guidance and informed by best practice in commissioning and service design. You will ensure the needs of Kent and Medway residents drive delivery against our strategic commissioning framework and policies. Through co-production, you will shape inclusive service models and a seamless, all-age approach that connects with adult services and provides consistent care pathways. Working across the ICB and with system partners, you will strengthen integration between neighbourhood health, community services, primary care, elective care and wider system priorities. You will manage community and neighbourhood health budgets and contracts, ensuring compliance with the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), value for money and robust provider performance management

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience in commissioning, strategy or service transformation within community services, neighbourhood health, primary care or related system functions.
  • Demonstrable senior leadership experience in a complex health or care system
  • Experience leading large scale service transformation or redesign programmes
  • Experience working with senior clinical leaders, local authorities, voluntary sector partners and system stakeholders.
  • Educated to Master’s level or equivalent senior level experience.

Attributes

Essential

  • Expert knowledge of community services, neighbourhood health models and national policy direction.
  • Strong understanding of integration across primary, community, acute, local authority and voluntary sector services.
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills, able to influence, negotiate and build consensus across complex systems.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of population health management and its application to neighbourhood models
  • Understanding of market management and provider development in community services.

Competencies

Essential

  • Ability to manage budgets, assess value for money and ensure financial stewardship.
  • Ability to design and implement commissioning policies, service specifications and strategic frameworks

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 30 November 2026

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