# Associate Director Improvement and Personalisation > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-improvement-and-personalisation/66d7151f-3b1d-41ae-b492-b9ebccb0d30f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-improvement-and-personalisation/66d7151f-3b1d-41ae-b492-b9ebccb0d30f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care - **Location:** Trafford - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Director - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (NHS GM ICB operate Hybrid working) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T16:02:33.331Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Old_Trafford/NHS_Greater_Manchester_Integrated_Care/Administration/Administration-v8275198 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8275198?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://gmintegratedcare.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview The postholder will provide clinical leadership and strategic oversight for quality improvement and personalisation across the locality, ensuring transformation programmes embed evidence-based methodologies and person-centred care. This includes championing formal improvement approaches; National Modern Service Frameworks (MSFs) and National Structure improvement Collaboratives (Out patients, Urgent and Emergency Care, Frailty) . The post holder will drive a comprehensive quality improvement culture, integrating learning from safeguarding, incidents, and LeDeR reviews into service redesign, and amplifying the voice of patients and communities. ### Main duties of the job Lead transformation and/or delivery programmes operational workstreams aligned to NHS GM strategy, the Locality Plan and national guidance. Maintain oversight of risk, assurance, and governance for the defined portfolio, ensuring alignment of clinical and organisational governance across the place health and care system. Work collaboratively across the place partnership (e.g. Local Authority, politicians, primary care networks and individual providers, hospital trusts, mental health trusts and the voluntary sector) to ensure joint working, integrated models of care, and accountability for delivery of integrated outcomes. Build strong relationships with local government partners (e.g. adult social care, children’s services, housing and public health) to develop a shared understanding of the population and work together to reduced inequalities, improve outcomes and strengthen neighbourhood health. - Drive the ongoing identification of underserved communities by assessing the quality, performance and productivity of provision, by integrating person-level data and insights with the biological, psychological and social drivers of risk and demand. - Work collaboratively across multiple places and/or across GM as required - Support a partnership approach between the statutory Safeguarding accountabilities of NHS GM with place arrangements , providing support, leadership and communication to ensure partnerships at place are robust and effective for adults and children ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The role will convene clinical and civic leaders to co-design improvements, strengthen professional leadership from nursing and Allied Health Professionals, acting as a respected, clinical leadership voice across the place partnership, to modernise personalisation through proactive, preventative care models, including Personal Health Budgets and integrated commissioning arrangements. The postholder will ensure active engagement with the clinical community maintaining strong networks that enable workforce intelligence is embedded in transformation and clinical governance. They will act as a bridge between Greater Manchester statutory functions and clinical networks, and local delivery, driving assurance-led improvement and building workforce capability in continuous learning and quality improvement. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive system leadership experience Experience of delivery assurance and development of support for identified areas of poor performance, in conjunction with other specialist colleagues Extensive experience in working with other leaders and experts within work programmes across the NHS. - Proven experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development Knowledge of Quality Improvement methods e.g.: Black Belt Six Sigma, Lean, TQM , MSFs Experience in leading personalisation strategies, including Personal Health Budgets, and working with pooled budgets and section 75 arrangements. Application Interview References Page 10 of 14 programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment. - Ability to convene clinical and civic leaders, foster shared decision-making, and ensure transformation reflects patient and community priorities through system collaboration. - Expert knowledge of NHS systems and procedures - Experience in Organisational Development, and senior operational management working with government / public body organisations - Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting. **Desirable** - Knowledge of Quality Improvement methods e.g.: Black Belt Six Sigma, Lean, TQM , MSFs - Experience in leading personalisation strategies, including Personal Health Budgets, and working with pooled budgets and section 75 arrangements. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to master’s level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area in strategic management ### Professional registration **Essential** - Current professional clinical registration with one of the following bodies: - General Medical Council (GMC) - General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) - Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) ## Documents - [associate director improvement and personalisation (pdf, 214.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10590978) ## 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.