Job summary
We are seeking an ethical, highly motivated andwell respectedmember of the local profession,working in or near the relevant local ICB area, with the vision and commitment tolead theLocal Professional Network.
As theChair, you will inspire and motivate others, leading the changes required to ensure consistently excellent clinical services and accessible, seamless clinical pathways.The MidlandsLocalProfessionalNetworks will provide support for local clinicians to deliver the NHS and Public Health outcomes frameworks and is key to the provision of sustainable leadership for the NHS as well as working across commissioning and provider services as a catalyst for change in the modernised NHS.
The successful candidate will be patient focused and fully committed to the values of the NHS, with strong leadership skills, vision, communication and presentationalskills, ready to work constructively with a wide range of stakeholders including the public and their representatives.NHS and Local Authority bodies as well as the Leadership Academy and the Local Education and Training Board. You must be a good listener and a good teacher at every level.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will have responsibility for clinical leadership, advice and engagement.
Key aspects of this role :-
- To provide professional and clinical leadership to an agreed network/networks in the defined area
- To provide clinical advice to constituent organisations (commissioners and providers) in relation to the activities of a specific strategic clinical network(s)
- To communicate the strategic clinical network's focus on quality and outcomes from national through to local level, allowing the local networks to feed ideas and input back to the ICB (as appropriate).
- To provide leadership for improving and safeguarding quality
Improving quality and outcomes
- A skilled and credible clinical leader whounderstands distributive and cross-sectorial leadership
- Embraces the role of clinical leadership in the new NHS
- Can lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of the LPN work programme
- Is able towork alone and as part of a team
- To foster a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across integrated pathways. This will include collaborating and engaging with clinical colleagues to deliver ambitious programmes of quality improvement
- Excellent leadership skills with a proven record of partnership working, leadership through persuasion, negotiation and influencing skills at local and/or national level.
- To ensure quality improvement programmes benefit from the best clinical expertise and evidence available
About us
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.
We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).
The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Enabling clinical leadership
- To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all Network and the ICBs activities
- To work collaboratively across the ICBs matrix, particularly the Medical Directorates and Improving Quality.
- To provide clinical leadership for the development and delivery of network activitiesin a givengeographical patch
- To foster and promote a culture of clinical engagement and influence ensuring networks are truly clinically led
- To create and maintain network structures that support widespread multidisciplinary involvement.
Enabling patient and public involvement
- To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the strategy development and decision-making of the ophthalmic local professional network.
- To ensure all public and patient contact with the ICBs ophthalmic local professional network is of the highest professional standard
- To embed patient and public involvement within the ICB at all levels of decision making
Promoting equality and reducing inequalities
- To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality
- To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality
Partnership and cross boundary working
- To effectively engage with other clinical and professional networks, clinical senates, health and well-being boards and clinical commissioning groups and build strong collaborative relationships.
- To engage and develop collaborations for quality improvement across whole health communities, for the realisation of equitable access to quality care and the achievement of outcome ambitions for patients
- To work with other bodies to align innovation, education, informatics and quality improvement
- To work with national level bodies ensuring alignment of policy and service transformation for patients
Leadership for transformational change
- To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes.
- To lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of the ICBs ophthalmic local professional network work programme.
Using insight and evidence for improvement
- To use insight in the use of evidence of analytics to inform quality improvement
- To promote the systematic application of quality framework tools such as NICE Standards, NICE Quality Standards and the Ophthalmic Assurance Framework.
Developing an excellent organisation
- To support the organisations ways of working, model its values and champion the NHS Constitution
- To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the ICBs ophthalmic local professional network.
- To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the networks
- To adhere to relevant professional codes of conduct
No specific staff or financial accountabilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Enabling clinical leadership
- To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all Network and the ICBs activities
- To work collaboratively across the ICBs matrix, particularly the Medical Directorates and Improving Quality.
- To provide clinical leadership for the development and delivery of network activitiesin a givengeographical patch
- To foster and promote a culture of clinical engagement and influence ensuring networks are truly clinically led
- To create and maintain network structures that support widespread multidisciplinary involvement.
Enabling patient and public involvement
- To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the strategy development and decision-making of the ophthalmic local professional network.
- To ensure all public and patient contact with the ICBs ophthalmic local professional network is of the highest professional standard
- To embed patient and public involvement within the ICB at all levels of decision making
Promoting equality and reducing inequalities
- To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality
- To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality
Partnership and cross boundary working
- To effectively engage with other clinical and professional networks, clinical senates, health and well-being boards and clinical commissioning groups and build strong collaborative relationships.
- To engage and develop collaborations for quality improvement across whole health communities, for the realisation of equitable access to quality care and the achievement of outcome ambitions for patients
- To work with other bodies to align innovation, education, informatics and quality improvement
- To work with national level bodies ensuring alignment of policy and service transformation for patients
Leadership for transformational change
- To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes.
- To lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of the ICBs ophthalmic local professional network work programme.
Using insight and evidence for improvement
- To use insight in the use of evidence of analytics to inform quality improvement
- To promote the systematic application of quality framework tools such as NICE Standards, NICE Quality Standards and the Ophthalmic Assurance Framework.
Developing an excellent organisation
- To support the organisations ways of working, model its values and champion the NHS Constitution
- To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the ICBs ophthalmic local professional network.
- To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the networks
- To adhere to relevant professional codes of conduct
No specific staff or financial accountabilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a clinical or scientific discipline
- Post Graduate or management qualification
- Clinician with current registration to appropriate professional body.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working in formal clinical networks within the NHS
- Good understanding of health system dynamics and the reform programme
- Knowledge of evidence based policy making and NHS governance
- A good understanding of how to use data and financial incentives to improve quality and productivity
- Track record of delivering major change programme to transform clinical services.
- To have a good understanding of integrated models of care across primary, secondary, tertiary and community care and appreciation of NHS contracting processes
- Senior leadership experience in the NHS, operating at or close to Board level
- Significant experience in clinical leadership at a strategic level
- Experience of operating in complex, highly political environments
- Experienced clinician with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals.
- Experience of developing, applying and reviewing an evidence-based approach to decision making
Skills, Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential
- Creating and delivering a work plan that includes description of how relationships will work locally
- Leading in succession planning and development for other existing and potential clinical leaders
- Excellent time management
- Ability to plan and structure work
- Understanding of financial issues and resource management
- Ability to prioritise and blend competing interests
- Ability to manage and direct others
- Resilience
- Ability to work from both a strategic and a front line view point and to find solutions that marry the two often different focuses and needs
- Being able to recognize key influencers and involve them
- Managing the triangle of accountability, leadership and management by sharing these roles and blending them as a team - each adopting the needed role as appropriate and having clear expectations of what each is delivering
- To be ambitious on behalf of the ICB, and prepared to challenge other clinicians' or managers' practice and thinking across primary and secondary care
- An interest in improving patient care from a systems perspective as well as at individual patient care level, together with an ability to work in both environments and bring the learning from one into the other; Ability to think beyond own professional viewpoint
- The ability to build excellent collaborative networks
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- Able to navigate and negotiate the NHS and the wider health, social care and political landscape.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high performing teams
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills.
- Work with the ICB's primary care lead to ensure communication and engagement with key stakeholders and the media, and convey complex messages to different recipient groups including ICBs, Public Health England, Local Authorities, Healthwatch, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Health Education England and Regulators (Monitor and CQC)
- Able to assimilate complex and lengthy information and make decisions in an ambiguous and fast moving environment
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders and the media, and convey complex messages to different recipient groups.
- Able to develop effective and mutually supportive relationships with key partners within and without organisations.
- Strong intellectual, strategic, and systemic thinking skills, with the ability to think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work
- Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and others
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a clinical or scientific discipline
- Post Graduate or management qualification
- Clinician with current registration to appropriate professional body.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working in formal clinical networks within the NHS
- Good understanding of health system dynamics and the reform programme
- Knowledge of evidence based policy making and NHS governance
- A good understanding of how to use data and financial incentives to improve quality and productivity
- Track record of delivering major change programme to transform clinical services.
- To have a good understanding of integrated models of care across primary, secondary, tertiary and community care and appreciation of NHS contracting processes
- Senior leadership experience in the NHS, operating at or close to Board level
- Significant experience in clinical leadership at a strategic level
- Experience of operating in complex, highly political environments
- Experienced clinician with credibility and the ability to command the respect of all clinical and non-clinical professionals.
- Experience of developing, applying and reviewing an evidence-based approach to decision making
Skills, Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential
- Creating and delivering a work plan that includes description of how relationships will work locally
- Leading in succession planning and development for other existing and potential clinical leaders
- Excellent time management
- Ability to plan and structure work
- Understanding of financial issues and resource management
- Ability to prioritise and blend competing interests
- Ability to manage and direct others
- Resilience
- Ability to work from both a strategic and a front line view point and to find solutions that marry the two often different focuses and needs
- Being able to recognize key influencers and involve them
- Managing the triangle of accountability, leadership and management by sharing these roles and blending them as a team - each adopting the needed role as appropriate and having clear expectations of what each is delivering
- To be ambitious on behalf of the ICB, and prepared to challenge other clinicians' or managers' practice and thinking across primary and secondary care
- An interest in improving patient care from a systems perspective as well as at individual patient care level, together with an ability to work in both environments and bring the learning from one into the other; Ability to think beyond own professional viewpoint
- The ability to build excellent collaborative networks
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- Able to navigate and negotiate the NHS and the wider health, social care and political landscape.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and motivate high performing teams
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills.
- Work with the ICB's primary care lead to ensure communication and engagement with key stakeholders and the media, and convey complex messages to different recipient groups including ICBs, Public Health England, Local Authorities, Healthwatch, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Health Education England and Regulators (Monitor and CQC)
- Able to assimilate complex and lengthy information and make decisions in an ambiguous and fast moving environment
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders and the media, and convey complex messages to different recipient groups.
- Able to develop effective and mutually supportive relationships with key partners within and without organisations.
- Strong intellectual, strategic, and systemic thinking skills, with the ability to think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work
- Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and others
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external 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.
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).
