Clinical Lead Learning Disability and Autism

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Summary

Clinical Leads provide expertise and leadership within several priority health improvement programme areas; working with experts by experience, colleagues in the ICB, Health and Care Partnerships (HCPs) and provider organisations to develop and implement local and system wide clinical solutions that transform care. The Learning Disability and Autism programme is one of the transformational programmes within the ICB.

The clinical lead for learning disability and autism will provide clinical leadership and advice to the LDA Delivery Partnership Board and associated workstreams focused on improving health and social outcomes for neurodivergent people (including those with learning disability and/or autism) in Kent & Medway. In particular, the clinical lead will have and continue to develop close links with colleagues in primary care.

Key Responsibilities

work alongside colleagues from the LDA Delivery Partnership to drive service change and transformation for neurodivergent people through effective clinical leadership and engagement across Kent & Medway. This may include developing approaches which are non-traditional in nature, ambitious and wide reaching in areas which incorporate the wider determinants that have an impact on improving clinical outcomes, better life outcomes and reducing health inequalities for this population.

provide clinical leadership, insight, and challenge to how system partners address clinical system resilience, sustainability and positive outcomes, development improvement, and quality and safety of patient care.

provide clinical advice and leadership to support strategic commissioning and transformation programmes emphasising clinical engagement; improving clinical resilience; removing unwarranted variation and health inequalities and promoting improvement in outcomes.

Lead appropriate clinical interactions with internal and external stakeholders, including GP member practices and primary care networks, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of equitable, high-quality care. At times this will include acting as an honest broker reconciling conflicting views and interests.

Main areas of responsibility

Analytical/Judgemental

Demonstrable understanding and continuous achievement of good clinical governance, evidenced through appropriate appraisal and assurance. A track record in securing or supporting improvements for patients and citizens is required.

promote and lead clinical quality data driven improvements which have a direct impact on the LDA population health and social needs.

Communication

be visible as a collaborative clinical leader and a role model, engaging health, and care professionals across the whole system in the development and delivery of the ICB plan.

be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, primary care, provider trusts and other partners, including local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequity.

promote citizen, patient and public involvement in service design and decision-making and champion the delivery of personalised care in all clinical practice.

Contribute to an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensures the duty to uphold and promote equality. Listen to and reflect the diversity of the local and system wide population.

Engender a culture of openness and transparency, considering the views of clinical colleagues, patients, carers and the wider population, and ensuring these are appropriately incorporated into service and pathway design.

Research and Development

promote continuous quality improvement through learning, improvement methodologies, research, innovation, and data driven improvement initiatives both at a strategic and operational level.

Identify areas for improvement by reference to research, benchmarking and other analytical data and to then help establish a prioritised programme of change encompassing new ways of working and the development of enhanced capabilities of individuals and teams.

Planning and Organisation

be visible as a collaborative clinical leader and a role model, engaging health, and care professionals across the whole system in the development and delivery of the ICB plan.

Policy and Service Development

work closely with the ICB programme team, and professional, clinical and managerial colleagues across the system to lead and assure change across the system, in line with the agreed objectives.

focus on the quality of primary and secondary health and care services for neurodivergent people within the ICS including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside the system to improve quality of care and outcomes.

promote multi-professional clinical and care leadership in delivery of the LDA Delivery Partnership objectives and form part of the wider network of clinical and care leaders in the region and nationally.

as a clinical system leader, acting as a catalyst and advocate, be responsible for ensuring that there is a collective responsibility for high standards of clinical care across the ICS.

Key Relationships

Maintain good links to NHSE Southeast Region team and other ICBs to share good practice and horizon scan. Act as a conduit between the national, regional and local teams.

Be professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer and deputise for the CMO as requested in key performance, monitoring, and accountability matters, providing feedback to the Chief Medical Officer and wider Executive Team in relation to the LDA portfolio of work.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully qualified in respective profession
• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Politically and publicly astute - able to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives and especially external and user perspectives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to demonstrate personal qualities of drawing upon their values, strengths and abilities to commission high standards of service.
• Able to articulate and influence clinical considerations from the perspective of primary care, community care and acute care including when these differ from personal preferences.
• Passionate for the clinical advisory and clinical improvement in areas of responsibility
• Be highly regarded as a clinical leader, beyond the boundaries of a single practice or profession demonstrably able to think beyond their own professional viewpoint.
• Capable of understanding and analysing complex issues, drawing on the breadth of data that needs to inform ICB deliberations and decision making, and as part of this ensuring that it is used ethically to balance competing priorities.
• Confident to critically challenge information and explanations supplied by others, who may be experts in their field. But also, be willing to listen to others who may not be experts but have an important contribution to make.
• Demonstrable commitment to the ICB and to the wider interests of health and well-being services, as part of a wider commitment to continuously improve outcomes, tackle health inequalities and deliver the best value for money for the taxpayer.

Experience

Essential

• A practising clinician in Kent and Medway working a minimum of two clinical sessions per week (primary care background desirable)
• Direct experience of the development of digital transformation or related improvement programmes
• Experience of senior clinical leadership in the NHS, beyond the boundaries of a single practice or profession, able to represent the broad clinical views of their colleagues
• Sound understanding of the background to and aims of current health and social care policy and experience of setting strategic direction through effective clinical leadership by contributing to the development of clinical strategies and aspirations of an organisation or system
• Experience of sound stakeholder engagement through effective communication and interactions with wider clinical colleagues, patients, members of the public and leaders of other organisations

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

Address

Nhs Kent & Medway I C B

Lower Stone Street

Maidstone

Kent

ME15 6NB

Employer's website

https://www.kentandmedway.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)