Havering place based Partnership Deputy Director - Live Well

Job responsibilities

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board is in the process of a restructure, which includes the establishment of a new team at place for Havering, structured around the life course approach of start well, live well, age well and die well.

We are developing local neighbourhood teams of health and care staff, who will work much more closely with the community and voluntary sector and primary care networks GP practices working together in their areas to improve the way that care is delivered to local people. Through this approach local people will receive more seamless care, tailored to their needs.

Job Summary The post holder will be a senior member of a team to improve the health and wellbeing of the local people in Havering Place

The post holder will deputise for the Director of Partnerships, Impact and Delivery, providing senior support to all members of the Place team as required, and representing the place in senior internal and external meetings

The post holder will support the Place Based Partnership, and lead on the delivery of a number of its core priorities and outcomes. The post holder will have good knowledge of their dedicated area, with a strong understanding of and experience in the commissioning cycle alongside advanced co-ordination, leadership, management, communication and interpersonal skills that enable them to promote and further the work of the partnership across a wide range of stakeholders.

The post holder will both directly and matrix manage a small team of people dedicated to delivery of the Start Well/Live Well/Age Well priorities and outcomes at Place, working with internal and external stakeholders this includes managing integrated and joint teams where these are in place.

The post holder will work at Place as well as across north east London, the provider Collaboratives, local government and with other Place Partnerships as appropriate. The post holder will lead the relationship with the Acute (Age Well)/MHLDA (Live Well)/Community (Start Well) Collaborative as agreed on behalf on the Place Partnership and work effectively with each of the other Collaboratives

The post holder will support the Director of Partnerships, Impact and Delivery, the Executive Place Lead, the Clinical Director and other senior leaders to deliver the strategic vision and the priorities for the Place Based Partnership in line with the partnership operating model, focusing on Start/Live/Age Well and to reduce health inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing of the local population

The post holder will work with the Director of Partnerships, Impact and Delivery to facilitate the delivery of integrated functions with relevant local authority and NHS partners to ensure best use of resources for the partnership.

The post holder will work with colleagues in other Place Partnerships and across the system to share best practice and learning

The post holder will be expected to lead across north east London for some functions as appropriate

Key Working Relationships

The postholder will be required to develop and maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the following:

• The Executive team at Place
• The Management team at Place
• Where matrix managed at Place, their manager in the ICB
• The designated strategic programme lead for their area based within the relevant Department of the ICB (Finance and Performance, Medical, Nursing, People and Culture, Strategy and Transformation)
• Members of the [X] Place Partnership Board and associated sub-committee
• Members of borough-based structures relevant to their work, including but not limited to: Community Safety Partnership; Safeguarding Adults Board; Safeguarding Childrens Partnership; Health and Wellbeing Board; Health Protection Board; Local Resilience Forum
• Local Medical Committee (LMC) representatives
• Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC) representatives
• Local Optometry Committee (LOC) representatives
• Local people and communities
• Senior managers and clinicians working in local provider organisations
• Senior managers and practitioners from across the relevant local authority
• Elected Members within the Place authority
• Community and Voluntary Sector representatives in the place
• Senior managers and teams working at Healthwatch
• Local residents and public representatives that support the partnership

As the role evolves, the post holder will develop subject matter related relationships, convening a range of internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to ensure delivery in their area and to provide information and analytical advice and expertise.

The post holder will liaise with other managers across the system to share learning and best practice.

Operational requirements

The post holder will:

• Work within the Mutual Accountability Framework to improve the health and wellbeing of local people and will lead on the delivery of core outcomes (related to SW/LW/AW) at Place
• Deputise for the Director of Partnerships, Impact and Delivery
• Represent the Place internally and externally at the highest levels on both the postholders areas of responsibility and the Place or system in general
• Lead the development of new ways of working at Place, working with Place teams and partners
• Understand the needs and assets of their local population and lead for the Place Partnership on the Start Well/Live Well/Age Well agenda adopting a strengths-based approach and considering the wider derminants of health
• Ensure that local people, communities and wider stakeholders are actively involved in identifying issues and challenges and in co-producing their own solutions within their area
• Develop and implement, in line with the Place Based Partnerships core outcomes and priorities and in line with relevant north east London strategies, local delivery plans in their dedicated areas. This will be done collaboratively with relevant leads from across the different organisations within the Place Partnership
• Understand the potential synergies, interfaces or tensions between partnership priorities and individual organisational priorities and actively convene relevant leads from those organisations to demonstrate the benefit of a partnership approach
• Have a nuanced understanding of the different ways of working and cultures across the partner organisations and use sophisticated communication techniques to engage and negotiate with different partners
• Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to co-design practices as appropriate
• Ensure that the partnership processes are aligned to the wider system approach, and be able to identify synergies, opportunities or potential conflicts with system-wide, collaborative or other place programmes.
• Be an advocate for the Place Based Partnership and be able to demonstrate the benefits of partnership working to a wide set of partners in both formal and informal settings, including at public meetings
• Produce and present written reports for a wide range of audiences including board level committees and politically sensitive settings, for example public overview and scrutiny committees.
• Be well informed [around x area] and able to apply national, regional, sub-regional policies and guidance as appropriate, learning from best practice and areas for improvement locally and across the system in north east London
• Represent the Place internally and externally at the highest levels on both the postholders areas of responsibility and the Place or system in general
• Deputise for the Director of Partnership Impact and Delivery as required
• Support the programme leads to deliver effectively

The post holder will be expected to work autonomously across a complex set of partners at place from across the NHS, local government and voluntary and community sector. The post holder will be expected to lead for north east London in identified areas as appropriate, in line with these Place functions

Knowledge, training and experience

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence
• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
• Understanding of the healthcare environment and the public sector
• Knowledge of project principles
• Experience of multi agency transformation and commissioning

Desirable

• Member of a professional body
• Experience of managing risks and reporting

Communication skills

Essential

• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
• Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
• Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff Effectively
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Able to create and give presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders

Analytical skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
• Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
• Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.

Planning skills

Essential

• Skills to provide leadership, vision, strategic thinking coupled with highly developed political skills
• Capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.

Autonomy

Essential

• Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions on difficult issues in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

Equality and diversity

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity. Being aware of how individual actions contribute to, and make a difference to, the equality agenda

Other

Essential

• Able to manage teams and team performance

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.

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