Executive Medical Director

Job summary

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an outstanding clinical leader to join NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board (ICB) as Executive Medical Director.

This substantive, full-time Board-level role offers the opportunity to lead strategic clinical improvement across Norfolk and Suffolk, serving nearly two million people across diverse urban, rural and coastal communities.

As Executive Medical Director, you will provide system-wide clinical leadership, working closely with the Chief Executive Officer, Board colleagues and partners to improve population health, reduce inequalities and drive innovation in service delivery.

You will champion clinical quality, patient safety and professional leadership across the ICB, ensuring services are evidence-based, effective and responsive to local need. You will also play a central role in shaping strategy, leading transformation programmes and supporting the development of modern models of care that deliver sustainable improvement across health and care services.

This is a pivotal leadership role at a time of significant opportunity and change for the NHS, offering the successful candidate the opportunity to help shape a more integrated, sustainable and equitable health and care system for the future.

Interviews will be held week commencing 15 June 2026.

Main duties of the job

• Core parts of the Executive Medical Directors portfolio will include:

• Clinical professional leadership across the system and to the ICB
• Medicines optimisation and pharmacy, to include antimicrobial resistance
• Population health management and the interface with public health
• Research and innovation
• Caldicott Guardian
• Learning from Deaths

Provide professional leadership for medical and clinical governance across the system, ensuring alignment with the NHS Long Term Plan, Health and Care Act 2022, and the Shared Commitment to Quality.

Act as the ICBs Caldicott Guardian and Clinical Safety Officer (though duties may be delegated as appropriate), providing leadership on data security, patient confidentiality, and safety assurance.

Lead the development and implementation of clinical policy and effectiveness frameworks.

Provide strategic oversight for Individual Funding Requests (IFR) and local funding decisions.

Support the delivery of End-of-Life care strategies in collaboration with Place and Neighbourhood Directors.

Provide strategic oversight on reducing health inequalities, working closely with Primary Care and Neighbourhood Directors.

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.