# Associate Clinical Director Clinical and Professional Standards

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Central East ICB.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** NHS Central East ICB
- **Location:** NHS Central East Integrated Care Board (ICB), Gemini House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Director
- **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 pa pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 16 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01T12:30:49.155Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Ely_Cambridgeshire/Central_East_Integrated_Care_Board/Utilisation_Management_Clinical_Professional_Standards/Utilisation_Management_Clinical_Professional_Standards-v8301970
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8301970?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.centraleast.icb.nhs.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Associate Clinical Director ensures excellent clinical and professional standards of registrant staff employed directly by the ICB and also ensures appropriate networking and contracting with providers and NHSE.

They will work across all registrant professions

### Main duties of the job

The Associate Clinical Director plays a pivotal leadership role within the Integrated Care Board (ICB), ensuring the effective delivery of the organisation’s plans and priorities. Working closely together with other clinical Directors, the Associate Clinical Director provides strategic and operational leadership across a portfolio of programmes, ensuring that system ambitions are translated into tangible improvements in care, outcomes, and experience for local populations. They act as a key interface between strategic planning and operational delivery, ensuring that the ICB’s vision and objectives are fully embedded across teams, partners, and programmes.

A core part of the Associate Clinical Director’s role is to drive delivery of the ICB plan, ensuring alignment with national policy, local strategies, and partner priorities. This includes overseeing progress against the ICB’s core “must-do” requirements while maintaining a sharp focus on longer-term transformation and system development. The Associate Clinical Director ensures that delivery is underpinned by robust governance

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the job description and person specification attached

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent level of experience in a relevant field (e.g. health, care, public services, professional expertise, or related discipline).
- Evidence of continuous professional development, with a track record of keeping skills and knowledge current covering a number of disciplines such as Finance or Management.
- Significant experience at Senior Management (sub board) within the NHS, public sector, or a comparable complex system.
- Registered with a relevant Professional Body and up to date with CPD.
- Leadership qualification
- On the GMC Register and evidence that is up to date with CPD

### Knowledge and Experience

**Essential**

- - Extensive leadership experience in a complex, multi-agency environment, ideally within health and care commissioning
- - Demonstrable success in delivering organisational change, transformation, and integration at scale.
- - Deep understanding of the NHS, Integrated Care Systems, and the wider health and care policy context, including the priorities of the NHS 10 Year Plan and statutory duties of an ICB.
- - Strong track record in delivery of strategic planning, commissioning, and/or system-wide service redesign to improve outcomes and value for money.
- - Evidence of working effectively with a broad range of partners, including local authorities, providers, community organisations, and national bodies.
- - Experience of leading in a politically sensitive environment and balancing competing demands with diplomacy and sound judgement.

## Documents

- [associate clinical director clinical and professional standards (pdf, 145.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10621442)

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