Job summary
We are looking for an ambitious and driven Clinical or Care Professional Research and Innovation Lead to help us transform North-East London ICS into a learning health and care system.
This role will work directly for the ICB Chief Medical Officer and is expected to work collaboratively with the ICB Director of Strategy, NEL Insights Team, Chief Clinical Information Officer, and other senior leads across the system. The role will include responsibility for supporting and increasing local research activity aligned to population health needs, developing systems and partnerships that widen research opportunities for the local system and ensuring the ICB can draw on the latest evidence and research to support its strategies and programmes.
Main duties of the job
NHS North East London (NHS NEL) is the name of our Integrated Care Board - the organisation that replaced NEL Clinical Commissioning Group on 1 July 2022. NEL ICB is responsible for commissioning most health services across NEL and is accountable for NHS spend and performance, ensuring all parts of the local health system work effectively together. The ICS serves a rapidly growing population of two million people that live in North East London.
Our agreed ambition as a partnership is that "We will work with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity."
Central to delivery of this ambition is making sure everything we do is informed by those with experience of developing and providing services and the lived experiences of patients and our populations. Expert input and leadership from front line clinical and care professionals is a fundamental ingredient to identifying effective and responsive service improvements and transformation.
NEL ICB has seven place based partnerships (City and Hackney, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest), aligned to our boroughs, with The Corporation of the City of London and London Borough of Hackney working together.
About us
These place based partnerships bring together the NHS, local government and providers of health and social care services, including the VCSE sector, people and communities, to provide a strong understanding of what works well with and what is needed by local communities. Working together in this way brings the ability to integrate local services across health and care and the levers to tackle some of the wider determinants of health, such as housing and employment.
Plans for these partnerships are rapidly developing and expected to respond differently, reflecting specific local factors and priorities. They will identify how to meet the needs of the local population better and reduce health inequalities.
Many programmes of work will also continue to span the ICS and there is a key role to ensure these wider workstreams are supported by NEL level clinical and care professional leadership, working hand in hand with provider collaboratives and places. Some specialist services and providers operate at an ICS or London wide scale and connecting these together is as critical to our future success and drilling down at place. These NEL level leadership roles are also critical to ensuring consistency and equity are maintained across our system and providing a link with NHSE or wider London Networks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We have developed a series of design principles that will ensure the CCP system leadership is fully integrated with executive and managerial leadership in our ICS operating model, system governance, structures and networks as a core required function of the NEL Integrated Care Board.
It is designed to support delivery of a clear, purposeful and motivational ICS strategy to improve health outcomes for the population of north east London and is focused on key functions and programmes of work that have a clear benefit of being addressed at system level and what leaders can collectively contribute to the broader system. It is essential that our CCP leadership group is Inclusive and reflective of the diversity, breadth and depth of our system across care settings, place, organisations, professional groups and networks and the population we serve. It is further designed to support the development of skills, behaviours, tools and relationships required to maintain a community of innovative and impactful system leaders working effectively across spatial, organisational and professional boundaries. Through all of this we will be able to support, develop and sustain a culture of learning underpinned by psychological safety in all aspects of this work.
We will be providing development support for all of those with the skills and appetite to step into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles better reflecting our ambitions around integration and the multidisciplinary nature of care, as well as the diversity of the communities we serve.
This development support on offer will be through the NEL System Leadership Collaborative, which is being designed specifically to increase our pipeline for these key roles in NEL. Principally we are looking for health and care professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries, and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration.
We encourage applications for all multidisciplinary professional groups and in particular would welcome application from interested candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority ethnic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We have developed a series of design principles that will ensure the CCP system leadership is fully integrated with executive and managerial leadership in our ICS operating model, system governance, structures and networks as a core required function of the NEL Integrated Care Board.
It is designed to support delivery of a clear, purposeful and motivational ICS strategy to improve health outcomes for the population of north east London and is focused on key functions and programmes of work that have a clear benefit of being addressed at system level and what leaders can collectively contribute to the broader system. It is essential that our CCP leadership group is Inclusive and reflective of the diversity, breadth and depth of our system across care settings, place, organisations, professional groups and networks and the population we serve. It is further designed to support the development of skills, behaviours, tools and relationships required to maintain a community of innovative and impactful system leaders working effectively across spatial, organisational and professional boundaries. Through all of this we will be able to support, develop and sustain a culture of learning underpinned by psychological safety in all aspects of this work.
We will be providing development support for all of those with the skills and appetite to step into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles better reflecting our ambitions around integration and the multidisciplinary nature of care, as well as the diversity of the communities we serve.
This development support on offer will be through the NEL System Leadership Collaborative, which is being designed specifically to increase our pipeline for these key roles in NEL. Principally we are looking for health and care professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries, and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration.
We encourage applications for all multidisciplinary professional groups and in particular would welcome application from interested candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority ethnic background.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to degree level
- oRecognised research qualification
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant / substantial experience working in a leadership or managerial capacity, including local connections within and across North East London
- oA sound understanding of current NHS issues and place-based partnership working between health and care organisations in particular.
- oExperience of multi-disciplinary team working, committees / working groups.
- oExperience of building productive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working creatively toward shared goals.
- oEvidence of planning and delivering of research programmes to support transformation.
Desirable
- oA sound understanding of health and care interfaces and impact of wider social determinants on health.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of QI methodology, research and experience delivering QI programmes of work
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to degree level
- oRecognised research qualification
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant / substantial experience working in a leadership or managerial capacity, including local connections within and across North East London
- oA sound understanding of current NHS issues and place-based partnership working between health and care organisations in particular.
- oExperience of multi-disciplinary team working, committees / working groups.
- oExperience of building productive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working creatively toward shared goals.
- oEvidence of planning and delivering of research programmes to support transformation.
Desirable
- oA sound understanding of health and care interfaces and impact of wider social determinants on health.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of QI methodology, research and experience delivering QI programmes of work
Additional information
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