# Accountable Care Group Managing Director > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/accountable-care-group-managing-director/5ea490ed-efbd-4310-9e92-43f6088d1c9b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/accountable-care-group-managing-director/5ea490ed-efbd-4310-9e92-43f6088d1c9b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cambridge - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** Salary is dependant on experience - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 40 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-08T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-30T13:33:32.393Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8121338 - **Application URL:** https://www.odgers.com/en-gb/opportunities/?r=0#AssignDetail.aspx?guid=96269 - **Employer website:** https://www.cuh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have recently refreshed our organisational strategy to allow us to transform and modernise. The development of accountable care groups each led by a Managing Director is at the centre of our strategy to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients and the taxpayer. We are continuing to shape our operating model and the roles of Accountable Care Managing Director across three groups potentially (focused on Medicine, Surgery and Women & Children’s Services) are pivotal to our future success. Reporting into our new Chief Delivery Officer, Laura Churchward, we are seeking highly capable leaders with significant experience of delivery and change in complex environments. If you believe you have the experience to help continue our journey of improvement, we would love to hear from you. We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We are particularly keen to attract a diverse range of applicants so we can better reflect the diversity of the communities we serve as a Trust. ### Main duties of the job The Managing Directors of the Accountable Care Group (ACG) are accountable for the leadership and management of the ACG. Specifically, the Managing Directors will: Provide leadership and management of the ACG, its resources, plans and activities to ensure the highest standards of quality, service and governance. Deliver the ACG’s annual plan and ensure the ACG meets its financial responsibilities. Provide strategic leadership, engaging stakeholders in shaping the future direction and development of the ACG. This includes implementing the CUH’s strategic aims as a leading centre of healthcare, education and research. Build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including Executive Directors and members of the CUH Board, other ACG Managing Directors, commissioners, and where relevant academic partners, local authorities and other Integrated Care System partners. Take a leading role in guiding discussions across the System and Place on service configuration and pathway development. Represent the ACG, promoting the reputation of the ACG, as a significant part of a major university teaching hospital with national and international reach, particularly in healthcare innovation and research. Oversee and support the development of the ACG’s commercial services and partnerships. Ensure that all legal and statutory obligations are met. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment This vacancy will close at midnight on the 8th July 2026. Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH. CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times. Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces. As an executive/senior officer at CUH, you are accountable for the health and safety of employees and other persons who may be affected by the Trust’s work activities in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. You must ensure workplace injuries and work-related ill-health are prevented so far as is reasonably practicable and provide strong leadership and commitment to health and safety by ensuring that the principles and practices described within the Trust’s H&S Policy are discharged and embedded throughout the organisation. You must also ensure your responsibilities are discharged in accordance with the policy and that the necessary resources and infrastructure for health and safety are provided. ## Job Details We have recently refreshed our organisational strategy to allow us to transform and modernise. The development of accountable care groups each led by a Managing Director is at the centre of our strategy to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients and the taxpayer. We are continuing to shape our operating model and the roles of Accountable Care Managing Director across three groups potentially (focused on Medicine, Surgery and Women & Children’s Services) are pivotal to our future success. Reporting into our new Chief Delivery Officer, Laura Churchward, we are seeking highly capable leaders with significant experience of delivery and change in complex environments. If you believe you have the experience to help continue our journey of improvement, we would love to hear from you. We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We are particularly keen to attract a diverse range of applicants so we can better reflect the diversity of the communities we serve as a Trust. ## Job Description The Managing Directors of the Accountable Care Group (ACG) are accountable for the leadership and management of the ACG. Specifically, the Managing Directors will: Provide leadership and management of the ACG, its resources, plans and activities to ensure the highest standards of quality, service and governance. Deliver the ACG’s annual plan and ensure the ACG meets its financial responsibilities. Provide strategic leadership, engaging stakeholders in shaping the future direction and development of the ACG. This includes implementing the CUH’s strategic aims as a leading centre of healthcare, education and research. Build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including Executive Directors and members of the CUH Board, other ACG Managing Directors, commissioners, and where relevant academic partners, local authorities and other Integrated Care System partners. Take a leading role in guiding discussions across the System and Place on service configuration and pathway development. Represent the ACG, promoting the reputation of the ACG, as a significant part of a major university teaching hospital with national and international reach, particularly in healthcare innovation and research. Oversee and support the development of the ACG’s commercial services and partnerships. Ensure that all legal and statutory obligations are met. ## Responsibilities Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: - applied for a Graduate visa - or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment This vacancy will close at midnight on the 8th July 2026. Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH. CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times. Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces. As an executive/senior officer at CUH, you are accountable for the health and safety of employees and other persons who may be affected by the Trust’s work activities in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. You must ensure workplace injuries and work-related ill-health are prevented so far as is reasonably practicable and provide strong leadership and commitment to health and safety by ensuring that the principles and practices described within the Trust’s H&S Policy are discharged and embedded throughout the organisation. You must also ensure your responsibilities are discharged in accordance with the policy and that the necessary resources and infrastructure for health and safety are provided. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - An inspiring leader with vision and high levels of emotional intelligence. - Proven team-building skills with the ability to deliver challenging agendas through effective delegation and a range of leadership styles. - Ability to communicate ideas and to generate action and delivery through others. - Proven ability to initiate and implement change successfully. - Ability to lead simultaneously both effective operational delivery and fundamental strategic development. - Ability to achieve credibility, lead and stimulate change through clinicians and other professionals. - Ability to deliver continued quality improvement and innovations to meet current and future needs of the patients, public and taxpayers. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health. - Understanding the key importance of academic excellence in a teaching trust. ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience in senior operational leadership roles, working closely with or a member of a Board or Executive team in a healthcare organisation of similar complexity. - A track record of delivering financial and performance objectives in a complex organisation and within a challenging financial and operational context. - The development of successful service strategies in a context of complex stakeholder engagement. - Evidence of building positive and fruitful partnerships. - Experience of building successful alliances across structural and organisational boundaries. - Evidence of leading and delivering safe, effective and good sustainable services in a challenging financial climate. - Significant experience of managing and delivering complex quality improvement, innovation and transformational change programmes in a rapidly changing environment. - Experience of leading and managing a culture which enables quality, innovation collaboration and devolved autonomy bringing an approach of questioning, listening and learning with experience of new ways of working. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level or with equivalent professional qualifications is essential. - Evidence of relevant continuous professional development. - A postgraduate management qualification is desirable. ### Values and Personal Qualities **Essential** - A passion for public service, for leading healthcare, research and education. - Exhibits determination, enthusiasm and resilience to drive through and achieve improvements. - Demonstrates a curious, reflective approach in support of making good, thoughtful, sustainable decisions and positive action. - Demonstrates strong commitment to action to achieve equity, diversity and inclusivity in the provision of services and staffing. - A strong, clear communication style that can engender genuine engagement, confidence and commitment at all levels of the workforce. ## Documents - [accountable care group managing director (pdf, 722.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10417585) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.