Job summary
Lead a Bold Next Chapter in Community Health
Nimbuscare is a GP-led, not-for-profit provider built on partnership, trust, and the belief that care works best when its shaped around people and place. Based in York and now expanding into North Yorkshire, we work at the forefront of neighbourhood health designing and delivering services that respond to real needs, co-created with the professionals and patients who use them.
We're seeking a new Chief Executive who can take Nimbuscare into the future, someone who combines a strong command of system-level leadership with a practical focus on delivery and community impact.
About the Role
As CEO, you will lead us through continued growth and evolution; shaping our strategic direction while ensuring the organisation remains grounded, agile, and trusted.
You will:
- Steer the next phase of development as we grow our reach and influence across York and North Yorkshire.
- Build strong, effective partnerships across Integrated Care Boards, local authorities, the NHS, VCS, and business sectors.
- Ensure operational excellence and financial sustainability, balancing ambition with realism.
- Champion innovation, prevention-first models, and the left shift in care.
- Foster a high-performing, inclusive organisational culture built on trust, collaboration and accountability.
- Keep patients, communities and staff at the heart of our purpose and decision-making.
Main duties of the job
About You
We're looking for a credible, confident leader with a values-based approach and a system mindset.
You'll bring:
- Senior leadership experience at CEO or equivalent level, ideally within health or a closely aligned sector.
- Deep understanding of integrated care and the evolving NHS context.
- Strong strategic and operational acumen and the judgement to navigate complexity and ambiguity.
- Excellent influencing and relationship-building skills across diverse stakeholder groups.
- A passion for improving outcomes, tackling inequality, and making services work better for the people they serve.
- A social entrepreneurial spirit, with the ability to spot and shape opportunities that create public value and long-term sustainability.
Why Join Nimbuscare?
This is a rare opportunity to lead a well-established, respected provider with ambition to do more, not just locally, but support regionally and influence nationally. You'll be joining an organisation with solid foundations, a clear purpose, and a collaborative Board that supports innovation, inclusion and impact.
If you're energised by system change and want to lead an organisation where strategic thinking meets real-world delivery, wed love to hear from you.
A detailed Job Pack can be found attached.
About us
Nimbuscare is one of the largest 'at scale' providers of
primary care in the North of England, caring for more than 250,000 patients
across our 11 Member GP Practices.
We work collaboratively across the York area delivering new,
innovative, and sustainable health care services.
As leaders in local care, our goal is to work together
across the health and care system to improve the health, wellbeing, and
experience of our patients.
To learn more about Nimbuscare please visit our website at
www.nimbuscare.co.uk
In line with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR),
Nimbuscare will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of
children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and
volunteers.
Nimbuscare is committed to improving the diversity of its
workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications
from everyone and work to promote an inclusive supportive culture that values
and celebrates our differences.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer disabled
applicants who meet the essential criteria for this job are guaranteed an
interview.
There is no sponsorship available for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide consistent, values-led leadership that shapes and strengthens our organisational culture.
- Inspire trust and confidence across stakeholders, fostering meaningful partnerships within the health and social care system.
- Be deeply familiar with NHS transformation priorities, including the integration of care and the move towards more community-based services in line with the NHS 10-year plan.
- Demonstrate the ability to respond with agility to changes in commissioning, regulatory frameworks, and service delivery models.
- Champion innovation, leading the development of high-quality, responsive services that meet the evolving needs of our populations.
- Be an exceptional communicator, capable of leading complex change while bringing people with you.
- Lead and develop high-performing teams, contributing to a culture of openness, challenge, learning and accountability.
You will also be a visible and proactive advocate for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, ensuring all colleagues feel respected, supported, and empowered to contribute to our shared success.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of community healthcare across
York and beyond. If you are a courageous, compassionate, and forward thinking leader ready to make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.
The job description is provided as an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. The job will change over time to reflect the changing needs of Nimbuscare and its services as well as the personal development of the post holder.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide consistent, values-led leadership that shapes and strengthens our organisational culture.
- Inspire trust and confidence across stakeholders, fostering meaningful partnerships within the health and social care system.
- Be deeply familiar with NHS transformation priorities, including the integration of care and the move towards more community-based services in line with the NHS 10-year plan.
- Demonstrate the ability to respond with agility to changes in commissioning, regulatory frameworks, and service delivery models.
- Champion innovation, leading the development of high-quality, responsive services that meet the evolving needs of our populations.
- Be an exceptional communicator, capable of leading complex change while bringing people with you.
- Lead and develop high-performing teams, contributing to a culture of openness, challenge, learning and accountability.
You will also be a visible and proactive advocate for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, ensuring all colleagues feel respected, supported, and empowered to contribute to our shared success.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of community healthcare across
York and beyond. If you are a courageous, compassionate, and forward thinking leader ready to make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.
The job description is provided as an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. The job will change over time to reflect the changing needs of Nimbuscare and its services as well as the personal development of the post holder.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes and Leadership Style
Essential
- An innovative and visionary leader with a strong patient- and community-centered approach.
- Adaptive leadership style with strong ambassadorial presence and gravitas.
- A track record of transforming creative ideas into sustainable, organisation-wide improvements across complex healthcare environments.
- Willingness to travel frequently across multiple sites, with occasional travel further afield as required.
Values and Commitment
Essential
- Evident commitment to upholding and embodying Nimbuscares values:
- Excellence, Flexibility, Integrity, Collaboration, Accessibility and Care.
- Proactive and flexible approach; ability to identify opportunities and work collaboratively to deliver them.
- Pragmatic, with a positive and can-do attitude, willing to engage with detail when required.
- Resilience to thrive under pressure and in complex, evolving contexts.
- Politically astute, with the ability to navigate sensitive landscapes while remaining focused on the organisations vision and long-term goals.
Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrable and significant senior leadership experience at Board level within an NHS organisation, preferably in an Acute or Community setting.
Experience
Essential
- A proven track record of successful stakeholder collaboration resulting in positive outcomes.
- Demonstrable entrepreneurial approach, adding measurable value to service delivery mechanisms.
- Experience contributing to the development and delivery of effective organisational and system-wide strategies.
- In-depth understanding of working within regulatory frameworks and collaborating effectively with regulators.
- A strategic thinker with highly developed influencing, negotiation, and persuasion skills, used to deliver change and improve services, standards, and systems.
- Demonstrable experience in leading system integration, working closely and effectively with partners to achieve both system and organisational excellence.
- A strong track record in proactively managing and improving performance metrics, ideally within a Quality Improvement (QI) framework.
- A deep understanding of, and ability to operate across, organisational and system boundaries.
- Proven experience in building high-performing, cohesive teams and inspiring others to achieve excellence.
- Demonstrated capability in effective demand and capacity planning to support high-quality patient and workforce outcomes.
- A strong record of workforce, financial, and resource management, including the ability to hold individuals to account and drive high performance.
- Evidenced outstanding leadership in service delivery, including specific examples of innovation within a healthcare setting.
- Experience in managing significant budgets, demonstrating financial acumen and overseeing the development of business cases to secure resources in support of strategic and operational plans.
- Ability to develop and maintain pragmatic and productive relationships across all sectors and levels.
- Effective strategic influencing skills within complex health and care systems.
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative working skills, with a strong ability to engage clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams.
- Confidence and experience in representing the organisation in media and public contexts.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes and Leadership Style
Essential
- An innovative and visionary leader with a strong patient- and community-centered approach.
- Adaptive leadership style with strong ambassadorial presence and gravitas.
- A track record of transforming creative ideas into sustainable, organisation-wide improvements across complex healthcare environments.
- Willingness to travel frequently across multiple sites, with occasional travel further afield as required.
Values and Commitment
Essential
- Evident commitment to upholding and embodying Nimbuscares values:
- Excellence, Flexibility, Integrity, Collaboration, Accessibility and Care.
- Proactive and flexible approach; ability to identify opportunities and work collaboratively to deliver them.
- Pragmatic, with a positive and can-do attitude, willing to engage with detail when required.
- Resilience to thrive under pressure and in complex, evolving contexts.
- Politically astute, with the ability to navigate sensitive landscapes while remaining focused on the organisations vision and long-term goals.
Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrable and significant senior leadership experience at Board level within an NHS organisation, preferably in an Acute or Community setting.
Experience
Essential
- A proven track record of successful stakeholder collaboration resulting in positive outcomes.
- Demonstrable entrepreneurial approach, adding measurable value to service delivery mechanisms.
- Experience contributing to the development and delivery of effective organisational and system-wide strategies.
- In-depth understanding of working within regulatory frameworks and collaborating effectively with regulators.
- A strategic thinker with highly developed influencing, negotiation, and persuasion skills, used to deliver change and improve services, standards, and systems.
- Demonstrable experience in leading system integration, working closely and effectively with partners to achieve both system and organisational excellence.
- A strong track record in proactively managing and improving performance metrics, ideally within a Quality Improvement (QI) framework.
- A deep understanding of, and ability to operate across, organisational and system boundaries.
- Proven experience in building high-performing, cohesive teams and inspiring others to achieve excellence.
- Demonstrated capability in effective demand and capacity planning to support high-quality patient and workforce outcomes.
- A strong record of workforce, financial, and resource management, including the ability to hold individuals to account and drive high performance.
- Evidenced outstanding leadership in service delivery, including specific examples of innovation within a healthcare setting.
- Experience in managing significant budgets, demonstrating financial acumen and overseeing the development of business cases to secure resources in support of strategic and operational plans.
- Ability to develop and maintain pragmatic and productive relationships across all sectors and levels.
- Effective strategic influencing skills within complex health and care systems.
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative working skills, with a strong ability to engage clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams.
- Confidence and experience in representing the organisation in media and public contexts.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
