Job summary
This post welcomes NHS applicants currently employed within Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the eight clinical commissioning groups across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets the same outcomes from treatment. We also oversee how money is spent and make sure health services work well and are of high quality.
The role of the Planned Care Manager is part of the planned care team that covers delivery and partner interface across place and system levels. The focus of this role will be to support system-wide transformation and system wide delivery, including, but not limited to:
- Pathway redesign for planned care priority programmes
- Provider interface
- Referral optimisation and patient choice
- Independent sector utilisation strategy
Main duties of the job
This role will contribute to the delivery of the wider planned care team's functions, which include:
- Lead on the development and delivery of priority programmes and oversee associated delivery plans in relation to these programmes.
- Undertake and lead provider review meetings, working closely with contracts, performance and business intelligence teams to monitor activity plans and cost, and oversee effective management of these commissioned services
- Review and develop governance arrangements in relation to planned care business
- Ensure, where appropriate, a standardised approach to planned care pathways to address unwarranted variation, improve outcomes and deliver better value for money
About us
The planned care team is committed to ensuring that patients needing planned care, see the right person, in the right place, first and every time, and to get the best possible outcomes delivered in the most efficient way.
The team has a very strong work ethic and a 'can do' approach to all work and this supports a high positive morale within the team to deliver the objectives.
All members of the team work closely together for support and advice and this promotes a healthy working environment which is turn, benefits all of our residents we represent within Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
This will be varied and will adapt over time as the ICB develops, however, the postholder is expected to take a lead managerial responsibility for a defined portfolio and fulfil the following key responsibilities which are described in detail below:-
- Planning Contribute to both operational and strategic planning , identifying interdependencies and impact
- Project management Lead on identified areas of work and track implementation.
- Resource Management Deliver against objectives, evaluating all aspects.
- Stakeholder Engagement Engage with and influence various stakeholders.
- Staff Management Line management responsibilities, support to wider team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
This will be varied and will adapt over time as the ICB develops, however, the postholder is expected to take a lead managerial responsibility for a defined portfolio and fulfil the following key responsibilities which are described in detail below:-
- Planning Contribute to both operational and strategic planning , identifying interdependencies and impact
- Project management Lead on identified areas of work and track implementation.
- Resource Management Deliver against objectives, evaluating all aspects.
- Stakeholder Engagement Engage with and influence various stakeholders.
- Staff Management Line management responsibilities, support to wider team.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of change management techniques relevant to the public sector, e.g. NHS Improvement methodology or Lean.
- Experience of managing and completing projects. Experience of creating project documentation, capturing benefits realisation.
- Experience of matrix working and of resource management and allocation, including those not under direct line management control
- Knowledge of the current challenges within Planned Care, including the elective care recovery programme and patient choice agenda.
Qualifications
Essential
- Project Management and/or Programme Management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent demonstrable post professional registration experience.
Essential
Essential
- Self-disciplined/motivated to function independently, but also able to motivate others. Manage own workload and use own initiative without close supervision.
Desirable
- An understanding of the principles of value for money and an ability to challenge performance on this basis with demonstrable commitment to continuously improve outcomes and efficiency
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of change management techniques relevant to the public sector, e.g. NHS Improvement methodology or Lean.
- Experience of managing and completing projects. Experience of creating project documentation, capturing benefits realisation.
- Experience of matrix working and of resource management and allocation, including those not under direct line management control
- Knowledge of the current challenges within Planned Care, including the elective care recovery programme and patient choice agenda.
Qualifications
Essential
- Project Management and/or Programme Management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent demonstrable post professional registration experience.
Essential
Essential
- Self-disciplined/motivated to function independently, but also able to motivate others. Manage own workload and use own initiative without close supervision.
Desirable
- An understanding of the principles of value for money and an ability to challenge performance on this basis with demonstrable commitment to continuously improve outcomes and efficiency
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.