Programme Director (Intermediate Care)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Statement

The Post Holder will be responsible for the successful delivery of the Intermediate Care programme in Leeds. Working across the Leeds Health and Care Partnership, the Programme Director will co-lead a large team of clinical leads, operational leads, and project leads to design, test out, and implement a new model of care that will deliver key benefits to people and partners in Leeds.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To lead the next phase of the Intermediate Care programme in Leeds

To develop, communicate and support a common understanding of the strategic aims of intermediate care within the context of the changing health and social care environment both nationally and within Leeds.

To work partners and stakeholders to deliver and implement the longer term vision for intermediate care across leads in order to meet the changing needs of service users and their carers

To maximise the opportunities for partnership where this provides the long term vision of better outcomes for service users and their carers; avoids duplication and makes the best use of limited resources and improves peoples overall experience of health and social care.

To engage in market analysis to ensure that opportunities to innovate and develop intermediate are maximised.

Communications & Relationship Skills

Uses complex influencing strategies, tailored to individual situations, to build on and develop effective partnerships with key stakeholders. Understands and addresses underlying problems, opportunities or political forces affecting integrated health and social care in relation to the external operating environment, in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for service users.

Strive to create the conditions for successful partnership working, across the system developing an effective interface with a wide range of partner organisations, ensuring relationships are developed and maintained in order to enhance the patient experience, optimise the use of public sector resources and ensure ownership of the change

To develop a strong clinical and professional leadership cadre, working closely with clinical and professional leads across the system

To work closely with Local Authority colleagues on managing the political and operational issues and ensure concensus

To develop and promote a culture where service users, carers and the public are involved and feel engaged in the dialogue and plans for integration of health and social care

To develop clear mechanisms for working in partnership with staff so they feel fully engaged and able to influence the provision and development integrated care

Create a team to oversee delivery drawn from all stakeholder organisations

Planning & Organisational Skills:

Provide coordination and a common direction across defined project areas; emphasising the need for the delivery of benefits and identified outcomes in order to ensure successful integration of adult health and social care.

Ensuring the appropriate governance arrangements, a robust communications plan and a benefits realisation plan are in place including ensuring the appropriate governance arrangements exist within the Transformation Board to oversee decision making and delivery

Manage the specific groups of projects ensuring capability is delivered, risks and issues are registered and logged and escalated where necessary and that the defined outcomes are achieved.

Ensure lessons are learned throughout the programme and that project evaluation reviews take place in order to ensure benefits are measured and realised

Finance and Physical Resources:

Oversight and management of the programme budget

Ensures compliance with Statutory Financial Instructions of the ICB and wider LHCP partners ; ensuring probity and good financial governance.

Human Resources and Leadership

Provides leadership on the intermediate care programme, working across agencies in order to deliver service results, inspiring others to be positive in their support of successful integration. Challenges traditional organisational boundaries and ways of working, emphasising integration and partnership.

Ensure a leadership style which is in line with agreed values, empowering staff to lead from every seat in the organisation.

Effectively builds and maintains relationships with staff and staff side organisations across organisational boundaries.

Manages a team of staff to drive delivery

This job description is not meant to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It may be subject to change in the light of developing organisational and service needs and wherever possible change will follow consultation with the post holder. The postholder may be directed to complete other tasks according to the skills and requirements for individual roles. These duties will always be reasonable and deemed within the expectations of your position.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level education or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience of working in the Leeds Health and Care Partnership
• A thorough understanding of the current issues, legislation, regulatory frameworks, standards and best practice developments affecting the NHS and social care including latest thinking on service inte

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of programme management and transformation tools and methedologies

Employer details

Employer name

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Suites 2-4, Wira Business Park

Leeds

LS16 6EB

Employer's website

http://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)