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Job summary
As Senior Lead for Evaluation and Health Economics, you will provide strategic leadership for the development and application of evaluation, evidence and health economic expertise across the organisation. You will lead specialist teams, oversee complex evaluations and economic analyses, and provide senior advice to executive leaders, commissioners and system partners. Working at the heart of strategic commissioning and transformation, you will ensure that major investment decisions are underpinned by robust evidence, clear benefits realisation and sound economic thinking.
This role offers the opportunity to influence system-wide change, develop innovative approaches to evaluation and value assessment, and build capability across a complex health and care system. You will join the Norfolk and Suffolk Intelligence Funciton - a high performing analytical unit that aims to empower the Integrated Care System to make evidence-informed decisions to improve the health and wellbeing of communities.
If you are an analytical expert with strong leadership skills, a strategic mindset, and a passion for using data, evidence, and economics to drive improvement, we would love to hear from you. Join the team and play a key role in delivering better outcomes for our population while helping shape the future of healthcare.
Main duties of the job
- Provide strategic leadership for evaluation, evidence generation and health economics.
- Manage and develop the Evaluation and Health Economics teams.
- Oversee the design, assurance and delivery of evaluation and economic analysis.
- Advise executive leaders, commissioners and partners on evidence-based decision-making.
- Translate complex findings into actionable recommendations.
- Embed evaluation and economic assessment within commissioning and transformation processes.
- Promote best practice methodologies, standards and continuous improvement.
- Build system-wide capability through leadership, guidance and partnership working.
- Ensure evidence and value considerations inform service transformation and resource allocation
About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9billion to commission safe, highquality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.
We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.
Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joinedup care.
Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an olderthanaverage population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.
Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joinedup, patientcentred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to highquality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Details
- Date posted: 27 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8b
- Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: D0003-ICB010
- Job locations: Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH, United Kingdom, Norfolk and Suffolk ICB, Endeavour House, Russell Road, IPSWICH, IP1 2BX, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex or sensitive analytical information.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and presenting to large audiences.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and quality standards.
- Experience developing analytical capability through training and mentoring
Autonomy
Essential
- Ability to work independently and provide specialist advice.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
Analytical
Essential
- Strong understanding of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods.
- Experience with analytical and informatics tools, such as SQL, R or Python as well as relevant data platforms.
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent senior-level experience.
- Advanced knowledge of health economics and evaluation methodologies.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- A thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity
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This advert is for NS 18.33 Senior Lead for Evaluation and Health Economics with NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board in Norwich, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £66,582 to £77,368 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Aug 2026.
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