Job responsibilities
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ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area.
The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition.
The post holder will provide specialist support across Mid and South Essex ICS to ensure that strategic decisions relating to resident benefits, funding, service priorities and workforce are based on good evidence and consideration about their long-term impact.
The role is a system-wide role working with colleagues who have expertise in statistics, data science, innovation, health policy and quality improvement.
The role calls for a breadth of economic, statistical, and analytical skills e.g. in defining the key questions, determining the correct methodological approach to address these, undertaking econometric analysis, and interpreting and communicating the results.
The post holder will work in collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders both internally and externally to ensure that this specialist resource is aligned to the achievement of the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Systems priority areas, including delivery of the Financial Recovery Programme.
The candidate will develop innovative methodological approaches to health economic analysis, working with the Population Health Management Team, Efficiency Team, acute Strategy Unit, Anglia Ruskin University and the MSE ICS Business Intelligence Team.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
To provide health economic analyses and cost-effective modelling to support the work programme of Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System. The post holder will apply a range of economic evaluation and resource impact techniques to support our key deliverables.
To support the Central Programme Management Office and Programme leads to ensure that all system financial recovery scheme savings can be tracked and mitigate the risk of double counting efficiency savings.
To support system capacity with needs predictions and financial impact forecasts e.g. predicting individuals at risk of admission for a stroke, fall, UTI etc.
Contribute health economics expertise in defining the scope and producing a range of Quality Improvement assessments and other outputs produced within the organisation.
Develop an understanding of the evidence underpinning practice in new topic areas, within short timescales, to inform assessments.
Critically appraise evidence sources, including highly technical publications, and devise and implement ways of extracting relevant data in an unbiased and systematic manner.
Interpret and combine evidence, which may be highly complex, contradictory or variable in nature, e.g. quantitative economic or statistical data from research papers and qualitative transcripts from focus groups. Write up the synthesis of evidence in reports and other publications.
Plan and undertake mathematical and economic modelling to structure the evidence from the literature and other sources on clinical and economic outcomes to provide results that inform decisions about clinical practices, health-care resource allocations and resident benefits through the utilisation of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) measures.
Identify and liaise with experts to assess internal and external validity of any economic analyses or modeling and the assumptions underpinning them to ensure results are valid and generalise dependent on the audience.
Plan and undertake projects to estimate the clinical benefit from and the resource and costs required to implement key recommendations.
Plan, implement and be accountable for the development and use of research instruments to obtain the information required from health boards to facilitate technology assessments. Determine the best method of obtaining required data (telephone, postal, web-based) and analyse and report results.
Identify, synthesise and summarise complex cost effectiveness literature and present findings in reports, varying formats appropriate to the anticipated audience, to facilitate evidence based decision making for MSE ICS. The post holder will present their findings to a wide variety of audiences, including clinicians and academics on the applied use of cost effectiveness analyses in the NHS. The post holder will also be expected to write up findings of research for publication in peer reviewed journals and present the work of MSE ICS at local, national, and international meetings and conferences, in formats appropriate to the audience. Contribute to the development of technology assessment methodology and processes.
Ensure that health economics activity complies with the Data Protection Act, Research Governance guidelines, Public and Patient Involvement initiatives and other relevant legislation and codes of practice.
Ensure specialist economic knowledge is kept up to date by being aware of developments in the field of health economics, attending training courses (where appropriate) and participating in other knowledge sharing events or networks.
Support to the MSE ICS Stewardship Programme:
The postholder will provide key support for our Stewardship groups to review activity across the pathway and make financial case for shifting spend upstream to prevention activity. Influencing improvements in patient care and system efficiencies across an entire pathway from prevention to clinical care and end of life e.g. considering missed opportunities for prevention in CVD, respiratory and cancer.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
The post holder will:
- Work closely with the Central Programme Management Office, System Efficiency Team, Population Health Management Team, acute Strategy Unit and, supporting specific projects in response to system priorities.
- Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with internal and external stakeholders working on a variety of topics.
- Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally including national networks.
- Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.
FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Operational
- Liaise with partners, including NHS England, to ensure data collection tools are appropriate and effective.
- Support the development and delivery of project plans, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decision in the best interest of the project.
- Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner. Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
- Support the flexibility of the project if required to meet conflicting/changing resources.
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels.
- Support other programme and project managers as and when required.
- Take into account the impact of any change the projects will have on business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy in within the business. Advocate the projects at senior and executive level and ensure active engagement and sponsorship within the system as required.
- Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of the Health Care Partnership.
- Adopt a pro-active approach to risk management including the systematic identification, assessment and management of risk.
- Provide specialist advice to support the development, planning and organisation of efficiency schemes and deliver pathway changes and savings associated with them.
- Manage change effectively and creatively, respond to complex and changing situations by use of creative problem solving and bring new thinking, delivery mechanisms and solutions to the organisations.
- Ability to convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
Project Management
- Support the delivery of key projects by ensuring integration of health economics evaluation with all aspects of the project.
- Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner.
- Ensure the flexibility of the project if required to meet conflicting/changing requirements.
- Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of system.
Financial and Physical Resources
- Budget setting with the Director and team. Responsible for ensuring adherence to the budget, ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is variable for scrutiny.
- Accountable for managing budgets associated resources and compliance with standing financial instructions and schemes of delegation.
- Develop and take responsibility for delivering of assigned efficiency programmes.
