Job summary
Only those currently employed by the following organisations may apply:
- Mid and South Essex ICB
- Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB
- Suffolk and North Essex ICB
Secondment to 30 September 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the 3 Integrated Care Boards covering the county of Essex (Mid and South Essex, Hertfordshire and West Essex, and Suffolk and North East Essex). These 3 ICBs have created an Inquiry Taskforce to manage and respond to the Lampard Inquiry. This statutory inquiry will review the deaths of mental health inpatients between 2000-2023 in Essex. It will likely be far reaching, requesting evidence from families and service users, providers, and commissioners, within the health and care sector. It is likely to be emotive and deal with sensitive and confidential issues. For more information please see attached link: The Lampard Inquiry - investigating mental health deaths in Essex
The Inquiry Taskforce will be led by the Deputy Director who will report directly to a pan-ICB Executive Group. The Taskforce will co-ordinate information across the ICBs, gathering data from current and historic commissioning organisations. You will need to be organised, persistent, patient, empathetic, with excellent communication skills. The team will be housed within the Mid and South Essex ICB and the roles will be a mixture of remote and on-site working. You will be expected to travel to the 3 ICB headquarters, on occasion.
A detailed job description for the role is included.
Main duties of the job
- Design, create and manage the processes for ensuring the Inquiry Taskforce (PMO) is accurate and consistent in its approach to managing the components of the Lampard Inquiry
- Design, create and manage effective monitoring, governance, and evaluation of allprojections, providing assurance to the Executive Medical Director, Executive Group, andBoard of Directors, through preparation and presentation of reports
- Design and implement effective continuous stakeholder engagement, negotiating andinfluencing at a senior level, resolving specific difficulties associated with project deliveries
- Identify key areas of resource need and gaps and mitigate for these and offer potential optionsand solutions
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills with the ability to process difficult or distressinginformation and support others to do the same
- Lead and manage across different teams and systems to achieve clear outcomes in a timelyfashion
- Identify, manage, and mitigate key risks as appropriate, making timely decisions regardingany required escalations
- Set the long-term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system areembedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as takingresponsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy
- Manage both up and across senior members of staff
- Oversee and be both accountable and responsible for multiple budgets and or income streamsof delivery
Predominantly Home Working
About us
Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex and is part of the wider integrated care system. Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Phoenix Court, Basildon, but there is a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Mid and South Essex and home working.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications regardless of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion or belief. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability. We would also encourage applicants to raise any personal circumstances they would like us to be aware of so that we can consider possible adjustments.
Unfortunately, the organisation does not have a Sponsorship licence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
On behalf of the Executive Medical Director for the Mid and South Essex ICB, you will lead, manage and coordinate the ICB Lampard Inquiry taskforce. The Lampard Inquiry is a statutory public inquiry, investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of mental health inpatients within the Essex area over the last 20 years. You will report directly to the Executive Medical Director, as Senior Responsible Officer for the for the Inquiry taskforce. The role will support 3 ICBs (Mid and South Essex, Hertfordshire and West Essex, and Suffolk and Northeast Essex) but will be hosted by the MSE ICB. The role is critical in ensuring the 3 ICBs prepare and respond to their statutory responsibilities regarding the Lampard Inquiry. All three ICBs have been deemed core participants in relation to the inquiry.
You will regularly brief the Executive Group and represent said group at key meetings with internal and external stakeholders. This will include the Lampard Counsel and ICB legal teams. You will be required to attend executive and board meetings and ensure adequate briefing papers are prepared and managed across multiple ICBs. Excellent communication skills are essential, and you will need to be able to manage and deliver across multiple teams, often at pace. You will have significant governance experience as you navigate complex commissioning arrangements and legal requirements. You will lead the response to any rule 9 requests from the inquiry team.
The role will be a combination of hybrid and face-to-face working with the main offices being based at Phoenix House in Basildon. The role will be 0.6WTE and can be worked flexibly but will need to meet the demands of the inquiry. Depending on circumstances, you may be required to support the wider ICB on core delivery projects.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Design, create and manage the processes for ensuring the Inquiry Taskforce (PMO) is accurate and consistent in its approach to managing the components of the Lampard Inquiry.
- Oversee the implementation of robust processes and appropriate project management methodologies to prepare and respond to the Lampard Inquiry.
- Design timelines for project delivery ensuring they are adhered to, especially in relation to formal requests from the Lampard secretariat.
- Design, create and manage effective monitoring, governance, and evaluation of all projections, providing assurance to the Executive Medical Director, Executive Group, and Board of Directors, through preparation and presentation of reports.
- Design and implement effective continuous stakeholder engagement, negotiating and influencing at a senior level, resolving specific difficulties associated with project deliveries.
- Design and maintain necessary structures to support the Project Management function.
- Identify key areas of resource need and gaps and mitigate for these and offer potential options and solutions
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills with the ability to process difficult or distressing information and support others to do the same.
- Lead and manage across different teams and systems to achieve clear outcomes in a timely fashion.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate key risks as appropriate, making timely decisions regarding any required escalations.
- Be accountable for the teams decisions made during their duties and delivery, escalating significant issues where appropriate.
- Set the long-term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy.
- Ensure optimal performance of multiple members of staff as required.
- Manage both up and across senior members of staff.
- Oversee and be both accountable and responsible for multiple budgets and or income streams of delivery
- Demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- Work autonomously within the role and appropriately escalate as and when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
On behalf of the Executive Medical Director for the Mid and South Essex ICB, you will lead, manage and coordinate the ICB Lampard Inquiry taskforce. The Lampard Inquiry is a statutory public inquiry, investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of mental health inpatients within the Essex area over the last 20 years. You will report directly to the Executive Medical Director, as Senior Responsible Officer for the for the Inquiry taskforce. The role will support 3 ICBs (Mid and South Essex, Hertfordshire and West Essex, and Suffolk and Northeast Essex) but will be hosted by the MSE ICB. The role is critical in ensuring the 3 ICBs prepare and respond to their statutory responsibilities regarding the Lampard Inquiry. All three ICBs have been deemed core participants in relation to the inquiry.
You will regularly brief the Executive Group and represent said group at key meetings with internal and external stakeholders. This will include the Lampard Counsel and ICB legal teams. You will be required to attend executive and board meetings and ensure adequate briefing papers are prepared and managed across multiple ICBs. Excellent communication skills are essential, and you will need to be able to manage and deliver across multiple teams, often at pace. You will have significant governance experience as you navigate complex commissioning arrangements and legal requirements. You will lead the response to any rule 9 requests from the inquiry team.
The role will be a combination of hybrid and face-to-face working with the main offices being based at Phoenix House in Basildon. The role will be 0.6WTE and can be worked flexibly but will need to meet the demands of the inquiry. Depending on circumstances, you may be required to support the wider ICB on core delivery projects.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
- Design, create and manage the processes for ensuring the Inquiry Taskforce (PMO) is accurate and consistent in its approach to managing the components of the Lampard Inquiry.
- Oversee the implementation of robust processes and appropriate project management methodologies to prepare and respond to the Lampard Inquiry.
- Design timelines for project delivery ensuring they are adhered to, especially in relation to formal requests from the Lampard secretariat.
- Design, create and manage effective monitoring, governance, and evaluation of all projections, providing assurance to the Executive Medical Director, Executive Group, and Board of Directors, through preparation and presentation of reports.
- Design and implement effective continuous stakeholder engagement, negotiating and influencing at a senior level, resolving specific difficulties associated with project deliveries.
- Design and maintain necessary structures to support the Project Management function.
- Identify key areas of resource need and gaps and mitigate for these and offer potential options and solutions
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills with the ability to process difficult or distressing information and support others to do the same.
- Lead and manage across different teams and systems to achieve clear outcomes in a timely fashion.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate key risks as appropriate, making timely decisions regarding any required escalations.
- Be accountable for the teams decisions made during their duties and delivery, escalating significant issues where appropriate.
- Set the long-term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy.
- Ensure optimal performance of multiple members of staff as required.
- Manage both up and across senior members of staff.
- Oversee and be both accountable and responsible for multiple budgets and or income streams of delivery
- Demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
- Work autonomously within the role and appropriately escalate as and when required.
Person Specification
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant systems and procedures
- In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with staff at all levels using from the full range of methods as appropriate
- Strong communication skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience of handling highly contentious and highly complex information to a variety of stakeholders with tact and diplomacy
- Demonstrable ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for disseminations to senior stakeholders
- Significant ability to formulate arguments and express them clearly to lay people and to persuade clinicians and senior management over a course of action
- Significant negotiation skills at a senior management level and ability to understand the wider agenda
- Significant ability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, with outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading, managing and delivering significant change projects involving stakeholders
- Experience of holding responsibility for budget/s, budget setting and demonstrable knowledge of financial processes within own service
- Experience of managing incoming and outgoing information requirements, handling correspondence/queries which may be highly complex, sensitive, or highly confidential
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent qualification
- Specialist knowledge across range of functions acquired through post-graduate courses (see below) and experience to masters equivalent level
- Project Management Qualification or equivalent level of experience OR Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience
Partnership Working / Leadership Management
Essential
- Can demonstrate significant partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to effect population-based solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
- Provide effective, inclusive, and compassionate leadership across a whole function, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Significant persuasion, influencing and conflict resolution skills
- Significant ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting ad drawn from multiple sources and where there are barriers to understanding
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
Other
Essential
- Possess a confident and positive attitude and be self-motivated
- Personal qualities of integrity, adaptability, and motivation
- Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, tenacious and agility and flexibility to respond to changing conditions while remaining clear sighted on corporate strategies and objectives
Person Specification
Knowledge / understanding
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of relevant systems and procedures
- In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with staff at all levels using from the full range of methods as appropriate
- Strong communication skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience of handling highly contentious and highly complex information to a variety of stakeholders with tact and diplomacy
- Demonstrable ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for disseminations to senior stakeholders
- Significant ability to formulate arguments and express them clearly to lay people and to persuade clinicians and senior management over a course of action
- Significant negotiation skills at a senior management level and ability to understand the wider agenda
- Significant ability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills involving highly complex data, with outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading, managing and delivering significant change projects involving stakeholders
- Experience of holding responsibility for budget/s, budget setting and demonstrable knowledge of financial processes within own service
- Experience of managing incoming and outgoing information requirements, handling correspondence/queries which may be highly complex, sensitive, or highly confidential
- Experience of negotiation with senior stakeholders which may include difficult and controversial issues, presenting complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent qualification
- Specialist knowledge across range of functions acquired through post-graduate courses (see below) and experience to masters equivalent level
- Project Management Qualification or equivalent level of experience OR Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience
Partnership Working / Leadership Management
Essential
- Can demonstrate significant partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to effect population-based solutions that span across multiple stakeholders
- Provide effective, inclusive, and compassionate leadership across a whole function, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up
- Significant persuasion, influencing and conflict resolution skills
- Significant ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting ad drawn from multiple sources and where there are barriers to understanding
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients
Other
Essential
- Possess a confident and positive attitude and be self-motivated
- Personal qualities of integrity, adaptability, and motivation
- Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, tenacious and agility and flexibility to respond to changing conditions while remaining clear sighted on corporate strategies and objectives
