Job summary
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (HIOW ICB) is seeking an exceptional and visionary Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to join our Executive Team at a pivotal time for system transformation.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of neighbourhood health, drive the ambitions of the 10-Year Plan, and ensure the highest standards of quality, safety, and patient experience across our system.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the ICB Chief Executive and working closely with the ICB Board and Executive Team, the Chief Nursing Officer holds collective responsibility for delivering the transformation required to achieve our strategic objectives and lay the foundations for sustainable neighbourhood health services.
You will provide dynamic, visible, and values-driven leadership, ensuring that clinical insight is central to all ICB decision-making and that our commissioning delivers safe, equitable, and effective services for our population.
About us
At HIOW ICB, you will play a central role in shaping the future of integrated care across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This is an opportunity to influence system-wide transformation, strengthen neighbourhood health, and make a lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of our population. If you are a courageous, forward-thinking clinical leader ready to drive meaningful change at scale, we would welcome your application. To Apply it is important that you please contact Claire OGorman prior to starting your application
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide strategic clinical leadership across the ICB, setting the overall clinical direction in partnership with the Chief Medical Officer.
Ensure the ICB meets all statutory and regulatory requirements relating to:
o Quality and patient safety
o Patient experience
o Safeguarding
o Infection Prevention and Control
Establish and maintain robust clinical governance and oversight frameworks.
Embed strong quality assurance processes through effective contract management of commissioned services.
Drive significant and sustained improvements in care quality and health outcomes.
Support the Chief Executive in delivering ICB priorities, contributing to the ICBs role as a strategic commissioner.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide strategic clinical leadership across the ICB, setting the overall clinical direction in partnership with the Chief Medical Officer.
Ensure the ICB meets all statutory and regulatory requirements relating to:
o Quality and patient safety
o Patient experience
o Safeguarding
o Infection Prevention and Control
Establish and maintain robust clinical governance and oversight frameworks.
Embed strong quality assurance processes through effective contract management of commissioned services.
Drive significant and sustained improvements in care quality and health outcomes.
Support the Chief Executive in delivering ICB priorities, contributing to the ICBs role as a strategic commissioner.
Person Specification
Personal Values
Essential
- Commitment to the Nolan Principles of Public Life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and the Fit and Proper Persons regime
- Compassionate, people centred leadership style
- ives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive
- Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries
- Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse
- Significant evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing clinical leadership, mentorship, and professional development at a very senior level with demonstrable outcomes
- Senior level experience in healthcare
- Substantial Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Experience of successfully operating in, and delivering in a partnership environment and across organisational boundaries
- Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven delivery of strategies that optimise resource use and achieve lasting improvement
- Significant experience of leading the development of strategies, frameworks and commissioning plans with the engagement of a wide range of stakeholders
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance including risk management
- Understanding of the whole health and care economy, of clinical service provision in a range of settings (primary, secondary, mental health, community, social care etc) and an understanding of the wider determinants of health and care
- Deep understanding of healthcare value -- the relationship between outcomes achieved and resources consumed
- Knowledge of Quality and Safety responsibilities of an ICB, including Safeguarding
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period in strategy formulation, service improvement and resource management
Skills
Essential
- Able to create and shape an innovative strategic vision
- Proven strategic ability; an agent of change with the ability to enthuse, empower, influence and involve colleagues and partners in shaping and delivering a future vision
- Ability to inspire and work creatively on solutions to solve organisational and system challenges
- Horizon scanning and assessing implications of national and regional policy requirements and translate these to support local priorities
- Ability to shape and develop ICB policy and planning within appropriate requirements and frameworks
- Ability to influence and shape the agenda for information design, delivery and management, including information standards
- Ability to think critically and analytically to draw sound conclusions based on complex information
- Strong leadership skills, and proven ability to build, lead, motivate and empower diverse teams delivering multidisciplinary and complex services
- Proven track record in developing strategic and operational plans, managing budgets, and delivering against people, operational and financial resource plans
Person Specification
Personal Values
Essential
- Commitment to the Nolan Principles of Public Life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and the Fit and Proper Persons regime
- Compassionate, people centred leadership style
- ives openness and integrity, creating cultures where these thrive
- Collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries
- Personally driven, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse
- Significant evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing clinical leadership, mentorship, and professional development at a very senior level with demonstrable outcomes
- Senior level experience in healthcare
- Substantial Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Experience of successfully operating in, and delivering in a partnership environment and across organisational boundaries
- Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven delivery of strategies that optimise resource use and achieve lasting improvement
- Significant experience of leading the development of strategies, frameworks and commissioning plans with the engagement of a wide range of stakeholders
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance including risk management
- Understanding of the whole health and care economy, of clinical service provision in a range of settings (primary, secondary, mental health, community, social care etc) and an understanding of the wider determinants of health and care
- Deep understanding of healthcare value -- the relationship between outcomes achieved and resources consumed
- Knowledge of Quality and Safety responsibilities of an ICB, including Safeguarding
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period in strategy formulation, service improvement and resource management
Skills
Essential
- Able to create and shape an innovative strategic vision
- Proven strategic ability; an agent of change with the ability to enthuse, empower, influence and involve colleagues and partners in shaping and delivering a future vision
- Ability to inspire and work creatively on solutions to solve organisational and system challenges
- Horizon scanning and assessing implications of national and regional policy requirements and translate these to support local priorities
- Ability to shape and develop ICB policy and planning within appropriate requirements and frameworks
- Ability to influence and shape the agenda for information design, delivery and management, including information standards
- Ability to think critically and analytically to draw sound conclusions based on complex information
- Strong leadership skills, and proven ability to build, lead, motivate and empower diverse teams delivering multidisciplinary and complex services
- Proven track record in developing strategic and operational plans, managing budgets, and delivering against people, operational and financial resource plans
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).