Job summary
This post is full time and a permanent appointment, working closely across our System with all stakeholders to ensure that legal and statutory functions are upheld as part of the Integrated System Core Functions; to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money; and help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the detailed job description document that can be found in the document section of this vacancy
About us
The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It is directly accountable to the NHS and is made up of local NHS trusts, primary care providers, and local authorities.
The ICB is responsible for joining up care services to improve patient experience in the community. The Board includes a chair, the chief executive and representatives from NHS organisations, primary care (GPs) and local authorities (councils).
The Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) is a statutory committee that brings together all system partners to produce a health and care strategy. As a forum to support partnership working, the ICP brings together local authorities, health and social care, and housing providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the detailed job description document that can be found in the document section of this vacancy
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the detailed job description document that can be found in the document section of this vacancy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical qualification and registration
- Leadership /Management qualification
- Qualified to degree level or appropriate equivalent in relevant subject area or equivalent appropriate experience
- Postgraduate degree in relevant subject at Masters level or equivalent relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a high-level analytical role in Quality & Patient Safety.
- Experience and knowledge of the components of clinical governance, incident response, risk management and assurance functions
- Experience of developing and delivering training.
- Experience of working across agency and organisational boundaries.
- Experience in multi- agency assessment processes and multi- agency working.
Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Patients First, always improving working together
- Team player
- Highly motivated and resourceful and proactive approach
- Flexible and adaptable
- Ability to work under pressure
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Well organised
- Open and honest
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to lead and promote confidence in self
- Ability to provide a supportive learning environment for members of the Nursing & Quality directorate
- Positive and effective communicator, orally and in writing
- Ability to lead and secure engagement in auditing and monitoring programmes and the resulting action plans
- Ability to design and develop systems to manage information across a system, including retrieval and triangulation
- Ability to identify need and negotiate successful outcomes
- Ability to lead and implement change in practice in quality assurance and patient safety
- Evidence of effective working successfully across disciplines and agency boundaries
- Ability to influence at all levels across the health economy
- Time management and prioritisation skills
- High level knowledge across the range of the quality and patient safety agenda, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience
- Ability to critically appraise research evidence and use when revising policies
- Ability to apply expert analytical skills to highly complex issues
- Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Ability to write and present reports based on highly complex information that give relevant and appropriate information targeted at the intended audience
- Experience of assessing training needs and planning and delivering training in quality and patient safety
- Knowledge of legislation and government guidance for the quality and patient safety agenda
- Effective and strategic influencing
- Evidence of collaborative working
- Critical appraisal and analytical skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical qualification and registration
- Leadership /Management qualification
- Qualified to degree level or appropriate equivalent in relevant subject area or equivalent appropriate experience
- Postgraduate degree in relevant subject at Masters level or equivalent relevant experience
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a high-level analytical role in Quality & Patient Safety.
- Experience and knowledge of the components of clinical governance, incident response, risk management and assurance functions
- Experience of developing and delivering training.
- Experience of working across agency and organisational boundaries.
- Experience in multi- agency assessment processes and multi- agency working.
Interpersonal Skills
Essential
- Patients First, always improving working together
- Team player
- Highly motivated and resourceful and proactive approach
- Flexible and adaptable
- Ability to work under pressure
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Well organised
- Open and honest
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to lead and promote confidence in self
- Ability to provide a supportive learning environment for members of the Nursing & Quality directorate
- Positive and effective communicator, orally and in writing
- Ability to lead and secure engagement in auditing and monitoring programmes and the resulting action plans
- Ability to design and develop systems to manage information across a system, including retrieval and triangulation
- Ability to identify need and negotiate successful outcomes
- Ability to lead and implement change in practice in quality assurance and patient safety
- Evidence of effective working successfully across disciplines and agency boundaries
- Ability to influence at all levels across the health economy
- Time management and prioritisation skills
- High level knowledge across the range of the quality and patient safety agenda, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience
- Ability to critically appraise research evidence and use when revising policies
- Ability to apply expert analytical skills to highly complex issues
- Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Ability to write and present reports based on highly complex information that give relevant and appropriate information targeted at the intended audience
- Experience of assessing training needs and planning and delivering training in quality and patient safety
- Knowledge of legislation and government guidance for the quality and patient safety agenda
- Effective and strategic influencing
- Evidence of collaborative working
- Critical appraisal and analytical skills
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
