Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board

About Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board

In July 2022, 12 organisations came together to establish NHS Greater Manchester, our city region’s ICB. We are a statutory part of our ICS - Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership, overseen by a Board comprising colleagues from across the system championing joined up working to help people live independent, active and healthy lives, all while making the system work better for the public and professionals who serve it.

In March 2023, we published our first Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) Strategy setting out our ambition for the next five years. Local Health and Well Being strategies for the 10 localities were reviewed as part of the development of the ICP strategy and used to inform its content, and the strategy itself was developed with the Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBBs) in Greater Manchester and their views were sought on an engagement draft in early 2023.

Our vision is the one which many partners across the city region have collectively adopted: for Greater Manchester to be a place where everyone can live a good life; growing up, getting on and growing old in a greener, fairer more prosperous city-region. To achieve this, our strategy sets out six missions: to strengthen our communities; help people get into – and stay in – good work; recover core NHS and care services; help people stay well and detect illness earlier; support our workforce and our carers; and achieve financial sustainability.

Dear Colleague
Thank you for showing an interest in joining our ICB. Following the planned retirement of a longstanding colleague, we are looking for experienced and dynamic leader to join us as our Chief People Officer. This is a pivotal role which will test and enhance your already well-honed leadership skills, working collaboratively within partners across the system to address the complex issues that face us.
Greater Manchester pioneered the development of integrated care systems and, with a population of 2.8 million, we are one of the largest in the country. What makes us unique in Greater Manchester is our history of devolution. This inheritance of closer working - particularly between the NHS, local government and, the Mayor of Greater Manchester - has been instrumental in shaping the design of these new national partnerships to support local health and care needs. Although our deep and strong connections have started to deliver real health improvements to a population where too many still spend too much of their lives in poor health, the pandemic set our progress back. We now have a real opportunity to make further change: to better address health inequalities, further improve clinical outcomes, and contribute to the wider social and economic development of Greater Manchester.
We recognise the challenge ahead in achieving our goals. Our system has been highlighted nationally by NHS England as an area of concern and as a result we are currently in Segment 3 of the NHS System Oversight Framework. Whilst our performance against key targets is improving, we know we have a significant journey ahead. Last year we undertook an external leadership and governance review, and this has helped to inform a revised operating model and organisational change.
As we move forward, we will focus on the following key objectives:
- The organisational work – concentrating on our people, governance processes and structures, in light of the recent governance review and our revised operating model.
- Helping the system and provider collaboratives to address challenges currently impacting on the delivery of care and our financial pressures.
- Implementing our Joint Forward Plan and wider Integrated Care Partnership Strategy, not just for our system, but also for our communities and for our local businesses, to improve the health and wellbeing of all our citizens.
- Developing our workforce in the ICB and across the system and driving cultural change across the region.
- Leading the health and care review, and shaping and developing high quality and patient centred services based on this.
If you would like to join us on our mission to make Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world to grow up, get on and grow old – we welcome your interest and application.
Yours sincerely
Mark Fisher
Chief Executive, NHS Greater Manchester
Please click here to read the Job Description & Person Specification
All applications must include:
- A full curriculum vitae/resume - this should include your contact address and details, stating your preferred method of contact, highlighting and explaining any gaps in your employment history.
- Quoting the relevant role reference number: A039525
- A covering letter highlighting your skills and experience and allow insights on your knowledge, skill and experience relevant to the role. You should outline your personal responsibility and achievement within previous roles that demonstrates you have the knowledge, skills and competencies to deliver this role, as outlined in the person specification and take the opportunity to highlight your personal values and motivations for applying for the role. (Microsoft Word document)
- Contact details for three referees, these will not be contacted without your permission. (References should validate a minimum period of six years employment)
- A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (which you will be redirected to once you have submitted your application) *
Monitoring
One of Alumni Global’s and Greater Manchester ICB’s objectives is to ensure that its workforce is reflective of the local community and therefore we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. So that we can successfully achieve these aims, while it is not mandatory we would encourage every applicant to complete the “Equal Opportunities Monitoring form” so that we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts. The Recruiting Manager does not have access to the Monitoring Information Sections of the application form at any stage of the process and the information provided will be kept entirely confidential.
For a confidential discussion on this role please contact:
Thomas Patterson, Managing Director or David Heaton, Principal Researcher on +44 7842 003 200.
Candidate adjustment
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the recruitment process please can you advise us so that we can ensure this is accommodated.
Closing date: 11th October 2024
Online behavioural and cognitive assessment: TBC
Stakeholder Sessions: 6th and 7th November 2024
Final Interviews: 8th November 2024
Please ensure you have made a note of the final interview date(s). We recommend that you bookmark this microsite, as any potential updates regarding the role will be posted online.