Principal Lead

Job responsibilities

CONTEXT STATEMENT

Our goal is to create a Dorset system where every resident is enabled to reach their full potential and enjoy a long and healthy life. We work collectively to ensure our residents have access to the right services when they need them as well as focusing on prevention and health promotion, supporting residents to take greater care of their own health and live longer, healthier lives.

Dorset ICB is looking to use place-based and neighbourhood approaches to meet the changing needs of people living in Dorset and improve their health and wellbeing outcomes. We are looking to empower multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams (across health, care and the voluntary sector) working better together at the local level as Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs).

As members of the INTs work better together, we expect to see improvements in population health and wellbeing outcomes as well as improvements in the INTs effectiveness, efficiency and equity. We also expect to see a shift from: -

• Treatment to Prevention
• Analogue to Digital and
• Hospital to Community

Principal Leads within the ICB play an important role in working with our communities and system partners to make this happen.

JOB PURPOSE

This role has been created to lead the commissioning and planning of Primary Care and Integrated Neighbourhood Teams development, supporting the strategic ambition to develop Place and Outcome Based commissioning. As part of our new ways of working, we want a Strategic commissioning function that is based on modern approaches to commissioning in the design and delivery of integrated services, based on improving health outcomes; delivering services in communities; a whole system approach to the design and delivery of new health, care and wellbeing services.

The key responsibilities of this substantive post are:

• Work as part of the Primary and Community senior leadership team, leading the integration and development of INT services as part of further delegated responsibilities from NHS England.
• Working with communities, clinical leads, ICB colleagues and system partners lead and manage programmes that deliver the commissioning cycle, commissioning and contracting new care models in line with strategic commissioning intentions.
• Develop positive relationships with all stakeholders and be the key link for specific portfolios of work, ensuring workstream collaboration for a joined up, integrated approach to programme delivery.
• Make persuasive cases for change, identifying and securing contributions to achieving strategic priorities from across a range of partner organisations and from within the ICB.
• Manage staff resources and the work plan to achieve commissioning priorities and plans including alignment with NHS Operational planning guidance.
• Work with System partners to review and develop primary and community commissioning and planning aligning this to strategic priorities, reflecting the move towards place-based, outcome-based commissioning, supporting integrated neighborhood teams.
• Represent NHS Dorset at governance groups supporting programme delivery and build collaborative relationships with key ICS stakeholders.
• Work with senior leadership team to support staff development, leading the team through a period of transition and change towards new ways of working.
• Lead on the development of future commissioning models, contract operational and people plans to inform Collaborative Commissioning Hub, Strategic Commissioning and Place and cross-directorate resource planning.
• Ensure the effective contract management of Primary Care providers, including quality assurance and working with regional NHS England teams, to develop innovative and efficient frameworks to incentivise quality improvement and transformation.
• Support primary care Workforce and digital planning aligned to primary care transformation priorities and plans, working with System Workforce and Digital leads.

POST SPECIFIC, TASKS AND OBJECTIVES

Commissioning Transformation

• Support the senior leadership team to deliver a transformation work programme across Primary and Community Care services.
• Lead and manage Programmes that contribute to commissioning and contracting new care pathways based on population health management, modernization, integration and outcomes.
• Build strong relationships and work closely with other directorates to develop appropriate primary care commissioning arrangements and comply with all guidance and assurance processes in support of Operational planning guidance.
• Work with partners across the integrated care system to effectively develop models of integrated care that supports resilience, sustainability and transformation.
• Work with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams to effectively address unwarranted variation and poor performance.
• Ensure delivery of key transformation priorities including sustainable general practice; Directed Enhanced Services (DES), Local Enhanced Services (LES) and Improvement plans.
• Ensure that recommendations from the Fuller Stock take Report inform local commissioning planning for integrated care delivery -working with Place teams, Provider collaboratives and System partners.
• Work with partners to adopt innovative practices to support the management of demand and efficiencies, such as the use of technology, workload optimisation tools, quality improvement techniques and approaches.

Outcomes Based Commissioning

• Lead and support the work needed to develop outcomes-based commissioning.
• Develop understanding of commissioning best practice to determine value for money, effective models of delivery to inform this.

Evaluation and Benefits Realisation

• Accountable for the delivery of outcomes, cost, quality, and performance of designated portfolio of work.
• Report programme progress to Boards, Delivery Group, national bodies, and through other local governance mechanisms as required, updating on delivery, budget, and performance.
• Ensure programmes of work adhere to established evidence base or are underpinned by appropriate evaluation where interventions are beyond the evidence base.
• Ensure effective service re-design is embedded and sustained into business as usual.
• Ensure all programme and project proposals are evidence based, operationally effective, delivered equitably, provide value for money, and are recorded in the appropriate programme and project documentation, and information systems.
• Develop and/or utilise programme tracking mechanisms to identify, monitor and evaluate risks and issues to facilitate proactive resolution and escalation.

Other key responsibilities

• Work confidentially, constructively and courageously with key partners and stakeholders across the wider system to support delivery of commissioning priorities and plans.
• Deputise for senior leads as required.
• Develop a sound and consistent understanding of the ICB strategy, priorities and plans, ensuring a broader perspective of strategic and operational issues and interdependencies.
• Support the development of clinical leaders to ensure our work remains clinically led and clinically accountable.
• Support System resilience planning.

Please note we reserve the right to extend the closing date or close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

For further information, please see full Job Description attached.

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential

• Leadership skills in Setting vision, delivery, control and decision making.
• Leadership skills in Leading systems and across disciplines and organisational boundaries.
• Leadership skills in Matrix management.
• Leadership skills in Building partnerships and relationships.
• Leadership skills in Understanding and managing context.
• Leadership skills in Emotional intelligence.
• Leadership skills in Tackling difficult issues.
• Leadership skills in Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Leadership skills in Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills.
• Management skills in Recruitment and selection/ team & people development/performance management
• Management skills in Managing across teams and organisations.
• Management skills in Financial and risk management.
• Management skills in Coaching and mentoring.
• Management skills in Ability to adapt and respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Communication skills in Cultural and political awareness, displaying a clear understanding of the implications of both national and local policies and their requirements and how they can be integrated into programmes of work.
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Able to present highly complex information (both formally and informally), to a range of internal and external stakeholders, about the scope, content and complexity associated with programme or project aims, objectives and outcomes, with authority and credibility.
• Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.

Qualifications

Essential

• Advanced theoretical (equivalent to Masters Level and/or specialist training) knowledge in a post relevant discipline or function.
• Knowledge and expertise in complex programme management
• Evidence of continuing professional development that enhances theoretical and practical knowledge.

Experience

Essential

• Comprehensive experience in senior management environment in a large, complex organisation.
• Substantial understanding and experience in delivering the whole commissioning cycle
• Substantial experience of developing long term strategic improvement programmes, working across whole systems and organisational boundaries.
• Substantial experience of analysing and interpreting data, insight and a range of options in relation to health outcomes.
• Experience of creating persuasive cases for change, making recommendations in the context of uncertainty where there may be a number of courses of action and/or differing views across organisations or disciplines.
• Experience of designing and implementing service or intervention evaluation and/or undertaking designing approaches to evaluate benefits realisation.
• Experience commissioning / decommissioning and contract / performance management of services.
• Direct management of a relevant functional or multidisciplinary team.
• Planning, developing, designing, and delivering highly complex transformational change programmes. with demonstrable outcomes.
• Relevant experience of managing within a clinical and/or corporate governance setting.
• Relevant experience of working effectively across organisational professional boundaries in complex organisations.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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