# Head of Programme Community > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-programme-community/656aa95d-0497-43f0-b83b-de84f4b74185 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-programme-community/656aa95d-0497-43f0-b83b-de84f4b74185.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board - **Location:** Wolverhampton City Council; Alpha Tower, Birmingham, B1 1TT, United Kingdom - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 to £91,609 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time, Flexible working - **Closing date:** 2026-09-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-21T10:49:44.770Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/D9118-26-0034 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/D9118-26-0034/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=D9118-26-0034 - **Employer website:** https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job summary Do you have the strategic leadership skills to shape and deliver neighbourhood health? This is a rare opportunity to join the Neighbourhood Health team in NHS Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Cluster ICB. You will lead the commissioning design and programme management of community transformation initiatives that support the NHS Long Term Plan ambition for care closer to home, prevention, and neighbourhood health, ensuring the six core components of neighbourhood health are commissioned coherently and delivered by providers through aligned contracts, specifications and outcomes frameworks. Reporting to the Associate Director for Neighbourhood Health, the post holder will be responsible for translating system and place-level commissioning strategy into deliverable commissioning programmes, ensuring effective engagement with providers, local authorities, VCSE partners and communities. The role will have a primary focus on community services, neighbourhood teams and out of hospital pathways, supporting improved access, reduced hospital demand and better population outcomes. ### Main duties of the job As the Head of Programme for Community Services, you will lead the system wide development. Key responsibilities include: Lead strategic planning and delivery aligned to organisational priorities. Build effective partnerships and manage senior stakeholder relationships. Drive service improvement, transformation and performance management. Provide expert advice and present complex information to senior audiences. Lead policy, governance and organisational development initiatives. Manage risks, issues, resources and delivery of quality outcomes. Negotiate and influence across organisations to achieve strategic objectives. Promote innovation, best practice and continuous improvement. Ensure effective engagement throughout planning and delivery cycles. Provide leadership, oversight and direction to teams and programmes. ### About us Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care System bring 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. You will model system values, champion inclusion and actively address health inequalities, helping create an environment where everyone can thrive. In return, the Cluster offers a supportive, ambitious and inclusive environment with opportunities to develop and work across partners to deliver meaningful change. The ICB is committed to having a workforce which is representative of the population of Birmingham, the Black Country, and Solihull Cluster. Our current staffing profile demonstrates that we are not as representative as we would like to be at this level within the organisation. We would actively welcome applications from women and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The ICB is registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We actively welcome applications from applicants with a disability and commit to shortlisting all such suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to participate in the recruitment process. ### Details - Date posted: 21 August 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 8c - Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working - Reference number: D9118-26-0034 - Job locations: Wolverhampton City Council, St. Peters Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SH, United Kingdom, Alpha Tower, Birmingham, B1 1TT, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities The complete job description and person specification can be found in the attached document. The post holder will lead the Directorate and the team to ensure that work stream and programmes are planned and carried out effectively. The post holder will lead the provision of an efficient, effective, and high quality professional and well co-ordinated procurement and contract management service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation. In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do: Commissioning for Value and Outcomes Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity Advancing Health Equity Integrated Partnership The Head of Programme for Community Services will lead the commissioning design and programme management of community transformation initiatives that support the NHS Long Term Plan ambition for care closer to home, prevention, and neighbourhood health, with delivery undertaken by commissioned providers. Ensuring the six core components of neighbourhood health are commissioned coherently and delivered by providers through aligned contracts, specifications and outcomes frameworks. The post holder will be accountable for: The Head of Programme will be accountable for: 1. Lead the programme of management of commissioned health transformation initiatives 2. Lead the strategic commissioning approach for community services 3. Delivery of agreed milestones, benefits and outcomes within community services portfolios 4. Work to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for the cluster population 5. Supporting the commissioning of integrated community service models, delivered by providers 6. Day to day leadership of programme teams and workstreams within the community portfolio 7. Leading an effective strategic commissioning team 8. Escalation and mitigation of risks, issues and dependencies 9. Deputising for the Associate Director as appropriate Key Relationships 1. New Care Models Director 2. ICB Chief Officers and Senior Leaders 3. Senior team representatives from all ICS partners - NHS Providers, Local Authorities and Community Interest Company (CICs) 4. Primary Care and General Practice 5. NHSE 6. Community providers and place-based partnerships 7. All staff supporting the work of the ICS and working within the ICS footprint - more specifically Senior Commissioning managers in health and local government, Population Health Management teams, Strategy teams, Finance and Contracting teams. 8. VCSE delivery Partners 9. Programme and Transformation Leads across the ICB Core Duties and Responsibilities Communication 1. The post holder will be required to have regular contact internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex, contentious and confidential issues 2. Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide project, information and analytical advice and expertise 3. Overseeing the team to develop and implement project data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data 4. Present project information and issues, explaining complexities, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders 5. To liaise with other Managers to share best practice ## Person Specification ### Autonomy **Essential** - Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables - Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales ### Mobility **Essential** - Ability to travel across sites as required ### Experience **Essential** - Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances. - Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific team - Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market - Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning - Manages team within the constraints of NHS strategic plan - Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes - Used to working in a busy environment - Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in London and appreciate the implications of this on engagement - Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the Strategic Health Authority and individual provider and the commissioning organisations - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area - Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent - Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development - Member of relevant professional body - Commitment to continuing professional development ### Personal qualities **Essential** - Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups - Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities - Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues ### Skills and abilities **Essential** - Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands - Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options - Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action - Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise - Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines - Skills for direct line management and job management - Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility - Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders - Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary - Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues - Ensures staff for whom the post holder has line management responsibility - An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust - Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change **Desirable** - Ability to carry out procurements for highly detailed, high value contracts that require analysis, comparison and assessment ### Equality, Diversity and Inclusion **Essential** - Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda - Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity - Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act ## 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.