Job summary
The Head of Integrated Work
and Health is a key role providing essential senior leadership capacity to
ensure that the progress the SNEE system have made on work and health
integration is enhanced across the
system with a specific focus on joining these at a strategic level so we have
an ambitious co-produced system strategy with clear delivery plans that can be
supported and then delivered in our 3 alliance geographies of North East Essex,
West Suffolk and Ipswich and East Suffolk.
By working with key statutory
partners and a wider range of stakeholders including our business networks,
education partners and community stakeholders including the voluntary and
community sector, we shall be able to focus on realising current and future
economic opportunities with our partners. The role will also play a key role in
addressing the key areas that impact on work and health including addressing
the main areas of economic health related inactivity such as mental health,
musculoskeletal conditions, cardiovascular disease and associated health
harming behaviours. The role will also support the workforce supply agenda
which is paramount to the successful implementation of the NHS Long Term
Workforce Plan.
The successful postholder will
have experience in leading on partnership and/or integration programmes. In
developing and implementing strategy, policy and change or innovation projects
in specialist areas, which impact across a health economy.
Main duties of the job
The role is crucial to ensure
that we build on the good work already achieved, further address the areas
identified above and scale up the opportunities across the SNEE system, to
support the continuation and implementation of the health and work agenda. The
postholder will provide a dynamic link with key stakeholders across the SNEE
geography and with neighbouring ICBs, regional partners including the Office
for Health Improvement and Disparities, NHSE and DWP and link into national
organisations such as the Joint Health and Work Directorate as we expand our
work. This will require:
Representing the SNEE ICB at regional and
national committees and meetings supporting this agenda.
Linking to the Suffolk and Essex Public Health
teams who are working with the ICB to address health inequalities associated
with economic inactivity.
Linking in with and supporting the health and
care workforce supply improvement strategy and associated delivery plan as part
of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan including the grow your own agenda e.g.
apprenticeships to support the future workforce in health and care
Working with the Department of Work and Pensions
and JobCentre Plus network to ensure that our work supports the ambitions and
priorities set at a national, regional and local level and are being met
About us
The NHS Suffolk and North-East Essex Integrated Care Board
(ICB) plans and buys healthcare services for our population. This function is
commonly referred to as commissioning.
To do this, we work within a budget of around
£1.5 billion, which is set by NHS England, and work closely with local
government and the NHS providers in our area.
Our performance is judged by how
well our local health and care system as a whole is working, including the
health outcomes of our communities.
The ICB has delegated some authority to the three
health and wellbeing alliances that operate in Suffolk and North-East Essex to
act on its behalf. This is to ensure that the needs of smaller, local areas are
addressed.
The ICB remains accountable for all of its functions, including
those it has delegated.
Local residents have a big role to play in the
operation of the ICB. We rely on the experiences and perspectives of our
communities to help shape our decision-making.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In Suffolk
and North East Essex we are committed to improving health and wellbeing
outcomes for the local population we serve and addressing the causes of poor
health and health inequalities. As part of our commitment to health improvement
and our longer-term commitment to move towards preventative health, we are now
recruiting for a senior manager who can support our ambition to integrate
health, work and economic development.
The
relationship between good health and work has a good evidence base with the
interdependencies of health care outcomes being linked to the wider
determinants of health including educational attainment, work and income. Unemployment,
economic inactivity and health-related worklessness are both national and local
priorities with this being underpinned in the activities of Integrated Care
Boards through their roles to support broader social and economic development.
As an ICB, with our partners in Public Health and the Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP), we are committed to driving this agenda forwards so to ensure better
health outcomes for our population. In addition, this will also support the
supply improvement plan of the future workforce in health and care.
This role will provide essential senior leadership
capacity to ensure that the progress we have made on work and health
integration continues to be made across the Suffolk and North East Essex ICB with
a specific focus on joining these at a strategic level so we have an ambitious co-produced
system strategy with clear delivery plans that can be supported and then
delivered in our 3 alliance geographies of North East Essex, West Suffolk and
Ipswich and East Suffolk.
By working
with key statutory partners and a wider range of stakeholders including our
business networks, education partners and community stakeholders including the voluntary
and community sector, we shall be able to focus on realising current and future
economic opportunities with our partners whilst, as the NHS, focus on
addressing the key areas that impact on work and health including addressing
the main areas of economic health related inactivity such as mental health,
musculoskeletal conditions, cardiovascular disease and associated health
harming behaviours.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In Suffolk
and North East Essex we are committed to improving health and wellbeing
outcomes for the local population we serve and addressing the causes of poor
health and health inequalities. As part of our commitment to health improvement
and our longer-term commitment to move towards preventative health, we are now
recruiting for a senior manager who can support our ambition to integrate
health, work and economic development.
The
relationship between good health and work has a good evidence base with the
interdependencies of health care outcomes being linked to the wider
determinants of health including educational attainment, work and income. Unemployment,
economic inactivity and health-related worklessness are both national and local
priorities with this being underpinned in the activities of Integrated Care
Boards through their roles to support broader social and economic development.
As an ICB, with our partners in Public Health and the Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP), we are committed to driving this agenda forwards so to ensure better
health outcomes for our population. In addition, this will also support the
supply improvement plan of the future workforce in health and care.
This role will provide essential senior leadership
capacity to ensure that the progress we have made on work and health
integration continues to be made across the Suffolk and North East Essex ICB with
a specific focus on joining these at a strategic level so we have an ambitious co-produced
system strategy with clear delivery plans that can be supported and then
delivered in our 3 alliance geographies of North East Essex, West Suffolk and
Ipswich and East Suffolk.
By working
with key statutory partners and a wider range of stakeholders including our
business networks, education partners and community stakeholders including the voluntary
and community sector, we shall be able to focus on realising current and future
economic opportunities with our partners whilst, as the NHS, focus on
addressing the key areas that impact on work and health including addressing
the main areas of economic health related inactivity such as mental health,
musculoskeletal conditions, cardiovascular disease and associated health
harming behaviours.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent experience.
- Ongoing professional development to post graduate level.
Desirable
- Foundation level Project Management Qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in leading on partnership and/or integration programmes
- Experience in developing and implementing strategy, policy and change or innovation projects in specialist areas, which impact across a health economy.
- Experience and a track record of leading and managing complex initiatives in a fast moving and high- pressure environment.
- Experience in communicating highly complex, sensitive or contentious information about performance and change to large groups where there maybe resistance to change.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Line management experience.
- Experience of budget management and monitoring
- Experience of developing, commissioning and evaluating new services.
- Understanding of the work and health agenda
Desirable
- Experience of matrix working
Skills
Essential
- 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.
- Ability to make judgements where there are conflicting views on the project and there is a need to make decisions on complex issues.
- Able to disseminate information appropriately and to facilitate collaborative working across the sector.
- Change management, and negotiation skills.
- Excellent organisational skills including the ability to plan and organise broad range of complex activities.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to persuade, influence and motivate others.
- Ability to use databases, spreadsheets and word processing IT Software.
- Knowledge of audit and research methodology.
- Ability to plan and implement new ways of working and to share knowledge and experience with other members of the team.
- Ability to lead/manage and motivate teams.
- Able to disseminate information appropriately and to facilitate collaborative working across the sector.
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex / in depth information and to ensure the effectiveness of initiatives and programmes and to consider diverse and different opinion to reach conclusions or consensus.
- Ability to use, analyse and interpret complex data and to construct correspondence and reports, demonstrating high levels of accuracy and presentation.
- Ability to take risks.
- Ability to demonstrate effective partnership working.
Desirable
- Ability to interpret national guidance for the health and work economy.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge across range of procedures, underpinned by theory.
- Good knowledge of strategy, policy and guidance development
- Good knowledge of drivers of health inequalities and socio-economic influences management, project management and change management and workforce redesign.
Desirable
- Good understanding of the current social and political environment
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel routinely within the East of England and to travel outside the region, as required, for the role.
- Ability to work within the Alliance and ICB geography to ensure process and procedures are consistent across the area
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self -motivated and proactive
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Flexible and adaptable.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree or equivalent experience.
- Ongoing professional development to post graduate level.
Desirable
- Foundation level Project Management Qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in leading on partnership and/or integration programmes
- Experience in developing and implementing strategy, policy and change or innovation projects in specialist areas, which impact across a health economy.
- Experience and a track record of leading and managing complex initiatives in a fast moving and high- pressure environment.
- Experience in communicating highly complex, sensitive or contentious information about performance and change to large groups where there maybe resistance to change.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Line management experience.
- Experience of budget management and monitoring
- Experience of developing, commissioning and evaluating new services.
- Understanding of the work and health agenda
Desirable
- Experience of matrix working
Skills
Essential
- 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.
- Ability to make judgements where there are conflicting views on the project and there is a need to make decisions on complex issues.
- Able to disseminate information appropriately and to facilitate collaborative working across the sector.
- Change management, and negotiation skills.
- Excellent organisational skills including the ability to plan and organise broad range of complex activities.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to persuade, influence and motivate others.
- Ability to use databases, spreadsheets and word processing IT Software.
- Knowledge of audit and research methodology.
- Ability to plan and implement new ways of working and to share knowledge and experience with other members of the team.
- Ability to lead/manage and motivate teams.
- Able to disseminate information appropriately and to facilitate collaborative working across the sector.
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex / in depth information and to ensure the effectiveness of initiatives and programmes and to consider diverse and different opinion to reach conclusions or consensus.
- Ability to use, analyse and interpret complex data and to construct correspondence and reports, demonstrating high levels of accuracy and presentation.
- Ability to take risks.
- Ability to demonstrate effective partnership working.
Desirable
- Ability to interpret national guidance for the health and work economy.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge across range of procedures, underpinned by theory.
- Good knowledge of strategy, policy and guidance development
- Good knowledge of drivers of health inequalities and socio-economic influences management, project management and change management and workforce redesign.
Desirable
- Good understanding of the current social and political environment
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel routinely within the East of England and to travel outside the region, as required, for the role.
- Ability to work within the Alliance and ICB geography to ensure process and procedures are consistent across the area
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self -motivated and proactive
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Flexible and adaptable.
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.
