NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

Health Inequalities Engagement Manager

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a member of the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board Engagement Team, ensuring the patient and public voice is at the heart of our services. Working closely with the Health Inequalities team you will lead the identification, planning and delivery of engagement opportunities to support and inform the ICSs Health Inequalities Improvement Programmes.

A key focus of the ICB Health Inequalities Improvement team's function will be to continue to drive forward delivery of the National five strategic priorities at a system level and the operational planning to support the 'Core20PLUS5'. Underpinning all of our work is a strong focus on quality improvement with a real emphasis on data for improvement, strengths-based approaches and co-production with communities, patients and service users.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will ensure the ICB meets its statutory duties for involving patients and the public in the development and transformation of services.
They will be integral to the Health Inequalities team, working with them on a day-to-day basis but they will sit within the ICB Engagement Team to draw on experiences and skills of other engagement colleagues for ongoing professional development.
Lead the delivery of engagement and communications support across the health inequalities transformation projects, working to the strategic lead of each
Identify and implement ways of ensuring ongoing engagement and communication with hard-to-reach communities
Support co-production and co-design - identify and engage with people with lived experience and those communities identified as experiencing inequity in access, outcomes and experience

About us

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. 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 increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.

The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB's objectives and financial sustainability.

Date posted

30 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year Pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

116-5867166

Job locations

Lincolnshire ICB offices

Sleaford

NG34 8GG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Lead the delivery of engagement and communications support across the health inequalities transformation projects, working to the strategic lead of each

Identify and implement ways of ensuring ongoing engagement and communication with hard-to-reach communities
Support co-production and co-design - identify and engage with people with lived experience and those communities identified as experiencing inequity in access, outcomes and experience
Lead the communication and engagement workstream for specific Health Inequalities projects, collating best practice, sharing insight for the system to scale up and apply across other programmes building and bringing together areas of good practice
Establish and cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders, partner organisations and patients and the public to facilitate the embedding of sustainable, locally managed engagement activities
To manage the development and implementation of effective and joined-up consultation/engagement programmes for the ICB which encourage patients and the public views to contribute to the planning, development and review of healthcare services
Plan, deliver and provide analytical feedback on a range of complex engagement activities to ensure service changes are shaped by patient and public views
Ensure the ICB discharges its statutory responsibilities in relation to involvement and consultation.
Work closely with the system communications teams to identify requirements to embed culturally competent communications within the programmes

Job description

Job responsibilities

Lead the delivery of engagement and communications support across the health inequalities transformation projects, working to the strategic lead of each

Identify and implement ways of ensuring ongoing engagement and communication with hard-to-reach communities
Support co-production and co-design - identify and engage with people with lived experience and those communities identified as experiencing inequity in access, outcomes and experience
Lead the communication and engagement workstream for specific Health Inequalities projects, collating best practice, sharing insight for the system to scale up and apply across other programmes building and bringing together areas of good practice
Establish and cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders, partner organisations and patients and the public to facilitate the embedding of sustainable, locally managed engagement activities
To manage the development and implementation of effective and joined-up consultation/engagement programmes for the ICB which encourage patients and the public views to contribute to the planning, development and review of healthcare services
Plan, deliver and provide analytical feedback on a range of complex engagement activities to ensure service changes are shaped by patient and public views
Ensure the ICB discharges its statutory responsibilities in relation to involvement and consultation.
Work closely with the system communications teams to identify requirements to embed culturally competent communications within the programmes

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Experience of engagement of patients, the public, stakeholders

Desirable

oQualitative and Quantitative data analysis qualification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Experience of engagement of patients, the public, stakeholders

Desirable

oQualitative and Quantitative data analysis qualification

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Lincolnshire ICB offices

Sleaford

NG34 8GG

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Lincolnshire ICB offices

Sleaford

NG34 8GG

Employer's website

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