Deputy Chief Officer - Care Integration

Do you have the strategic leadership skills to shape and deliver integrated, place based health and care at scale This is a rare opportunity to join NHS Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Cluster ICB as Deputy Chief Officer Care Integration. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will play a key role in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan, driving integrated, neighbourhood and place based care to improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and maximise system resources. As a senior system leader, you will work with executive colleagues, local authorities, providers, VCSE partners and citizens to lead commissioning strategy, outcomes frameworks and governance that support integrated care models across the ICB, ensuring alignment between commissioning, transformation and delivery. You will focus on advancing health equity, strengthening neighbourhood health, building integrated partnerships and maintaining financial discipline and productivity. Working closely with Board level stakeholders, Place Partnerships and system partners, you will operate confidently in complex environments, influencing across organisational boundaries and providing assurance at executive and Board level. Interviews will be held on week commencing 22 June 2026, or shortly thereafter., As Deputy Chief Officer for Care Integration, you will provide systemwide leadership for integration commissioning and neighbourhood health, with significant responsibility for strategy, delivery and assurance.,

• Leading the system-wide integration commissioning strategy and outcomes framework aligned to national and local priorities
• Designing, mobilising and overseeing delivery of integrated care and neighbourhood health models
• Leading development and operation of Place Committee arrangements and effective delegation to place
• Leading commissioning approaches for NHS Anchor organisations to support place-based outcomes and social value
• Acting as SRO for integration and community transformation programmes, aligning commissioning, transformation and delivery
• Providing professional and line management leadership to Heads of Programme and Programme Directors
• Ensuring delivery of quality, access, productivity and inequality outcomes
• Providing assurance to Executive Directors, Board and committees on progress, risks and benefits
• Supporting a system place and Executive Director within Place governance arrangements
• Leading and influencing regional commissioning, including engagement with West Midlands Ambulance Service
  
  Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care System brings together the NHS, councils and voluntary sector to serve 2.7 million people. Our vision is to be the healthiest place to live and work, improving life chances and reducing inequalities.