Job summary
Do you have the ambition to shape and
enable the local place based partnership team delivering the ICS healthcare
vision and objectives for patients in North West London?
2 Sessions Per Week
Clinical leadership and expertise are identified as essential for delivering the North West London Integrated Care System vision and objectives. The clinical leadership works together across the Integrated Care System to focus on service improvement, service redesign and the development of care pathways from primary care through to secondary care and community-based services.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and committed Integrated Care System health and care leadership team to shape the impact of primary care leadership in North West London.
The Primary Care Clinical Lead in each borough has an important role within the Integrated Care System, leading on the delivery at place level of complex changes and integrated working across health and social care working in close partnership with the Borough Medical Director, Borough Director and team.
This role will enable you to contribute clinical experience to support the ICB and local borough priorities. It requires strong strategic leadership skills, critical reasoning, good governance and delivering impactful public outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will bring with them an enthusiasm to bring or acquire a track record of leading change, the ability to establish a stakeholder-led culture at place level, the ability to build trusted partnerships which drive change and improvements in care, have great personal integrity and champion diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity for all.
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 irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. 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.
Interview date will be confirmed shortly.
If you have any queries, please contact the Borough Medical Director (Andrew Steeden - asteeden@nhs.net) or the Borough Director (Simon Hope - simonhope@nhs.net).
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About us
NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.
The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care.
Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them take greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.
To do this we will:
improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
reduce inequalities in health outcomes, experience, and access
enhance productivity and better value for money
support broader social and economic development within our area.
Were proud of our staff and the contribution they make and are committed to developing their knowledge and skills in a supportive, inclusive, and values-led organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will play a key role in providing clinical leadership and support to the local borough team, the wider PBP team, and support the Borough Medical Director in providing clinical insight into transformation and development at a local level.
Key responsibilities for the post holder will include:
Deputise for the Borough Medical Director where capacity allows
Working closely with the Borough Medical Director, the role will provide clinical input to the programmes delivered by the local teams and support the PBP to ensure clinical pathways are effective as possible
Use their in-depth knowledge of the local clinical landscape to input into the work of the NWL Clinical Leads and align with local nuances on provider landscape and systems
Enable the output of the work driven by the NWL Clinical leads to be implemented within the local borough by creating links within the local landscape
Provide clinical input to INT development and key work programmes.
Take on time-limited projects where clinical input is required in order to ensure the outcomes meet the needs of the population and where capacity allows
Work to improve patient care with PCN Teams to tackle neighbourhood level inequality of health access, experience and outcomes
Work closely with partner organisations, including third sector agencies, to improve pathway interfaces with primary care
Have a flexible approach when dealing with multidisciplinary teams; able to identify a range of solutions
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information.
Ensure the patient voice and patient experience is at the heart of decision making.
Support and facilitate primary care or multi-professional educational and training needs identified.
Functional Responsibilities:
Supporting the primary care quality agenda
Support the primary care quality agenda of the three elements of quality: patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience within primary care.
Support the Primary Care Quality Improvement team to implement the primary care quality strategy by facilitating connections and forums to raise awareness and progress delivery.
Lead by example and share learning from managing serious incidents under the Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework (PSIRF) and Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE).
Work with the Primary Care Quality Improvement team to identify areas to incorporate quality improvement methodologies in primary care to ensure the provision of care to the right patients and service users at the right time by the right staff.
Analytical
Awareness of risks to the borough programmes and ensure that escalation processes are followed.
Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.
Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information.
Communications and Engagement
Support co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience.
Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders.
Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers.
Interface with clinical leads in the other programmes for example: children and young people, elective, urgent and emergency care, diagnostics.
Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the borough and programme teams, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.
Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters.
Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
Support the relevant NWL ICS programmes in the preparation of correspondence and papers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will play a key role in providing clinical leadership and support to the local borough team, the wider PBP team, and support the Borough Medical Director in providing clinical insight into transformation and development at a local level.
Key responsibilities for the post holder will include:
Deputise for the Borough Medical Director where capacity allows
Working closely with the Borough Medical Director, the role will provide clinical input to the programmes delivered by the local teams and support the PBP to ensure clinical pathways are effective as possible
Use their in-depth knowledge of the local clinical landscape to input into the work of the NWL Clinical Leads and align with local nuances on provider landscape and systems
Enable the output of the work driven by the NWL Clinical leads to be implemented within the local borough by creating links within the local landscape
Provide clinical input to INT development and key work programmes.
Take on time-limited projects where clinical input is required in order to ensure the outcomes meet the needs of the population and where capacity allows
Work to improve patient care with PCN Teams to tackle neighbourhood level inequality of health access, experience and outcomes
Work closely with partner organisations, including third sector agencies, to improve pathway interfaces with primary care
Have a flexible approach when dealing with multidisciplinary teams; able to identify a range of solutions
Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious information.
Ensure the patient voice and patient experience is at the heart of decision making.
Support and facilitate primary care or multi-professional educational and training needs identified.
Functional Responsibilities:
Supporting the primary care quality agenda
Support the primary care quality agenda of the three elements of quality: patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience within primary care.
Support the Primary Care Quality Improvement team to implement the primary care quality strategy by facilitating connections and forums to raise awareness and progress delivery.
Lead by example and share learning from managing serious incidents under the Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework (PSIRF) and Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE).
Work with the Primary Care Quality Improvement team to identify areas to incorporate quality improvement methodologies in primary care to ensure the provision of care to the right patients and service users at the right time by the right staff.
Analytical
Awareness of risks to the borough programmes and ensure that escalation processes are followed.
Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.
Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information.
Communications and Engagement
Support co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience.
Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders.
Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers.
Interface with clinical leads in the other programmes for example: children and young people, elective, urgent and emergency care, diagnostics.
Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the borough and programme teams, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.
Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters.
Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
Support the relevant NWL ICS programmes in the preparation of correspondence and papers.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness and understanding of the healthcare landscape in North West London and your borough.
Desirable
- Good working knowledge of educational support in primary care training, and health systems.
- Understanding of national, regional and local primary care workforce transformation programmes.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience in primary care and leadership.
- Experience of building productive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working creatively toward shared goals.
- Experience of reducing unwarranted clinical variation and the ability to foster quality improvement within clinical practice.
- Evidence of planning and delivering of transformation change to deliver agreed objectives
- Demonstrate an ability to lead and motivate individuals and teams.
- Good working knowledge of professional requirements
Desirable
- Experience of project work focusing on benefits realisation and supporting transformational change.
- Experience in liaising with NHS trusts, community organisations, medical schools and other partners and providers in leadership roles.
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team.
Qualifications
Essential
- Practicing primary care clinician in the borough with at least 4 sessions a month at a practice or PCN in the borough. (Current or recent practice within the last 4 years)
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and revalidation
- MRCGP or equivalent clinical qualification
- Evidence of a license to practice
- Satisfactory Appraisal within the last 12 months or within the most recent 12 months of work, (if currently on a career break)
Desirable
- Clinical leadership qualification
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others.
- Ability to foster quality improvement within clinical practice.
- Judgement: having the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of quality assurance activity.
- Demonstrate the ability to hold to account clinical colleagues.
- Ability to ensure robust governance processes are agreed and in place for projects.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel within the borough and NWL area to provide widespread support to continuously develop the programmes of work.
Desirable
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Project management and change management.
- Ability to produce structured work, strong presentations and deliverables.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness and understanding of the healthcare landscape in North West London and your borough.
Desirable
- Good working knowledge of educational support in primary care training, and health systems.
- Understanding of national, regional and local primary care workforce transformation programmes.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience in primary care and leadership.
- Experience of building productive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working creatively toward shared goals.
- Experience of reducing unwarranted clinical variation and the ability to foster quality improvement within clinical practice.
- Evidence of planning and delivering of transformation change to deliver agreed objectives
- Demonstrate an ability to lead and motivate individuals and teams.
- Good working knowledge of professional requirements
Desirable
- Experience of project work focusing on benefits realisation and supporting transformational change.
- Experience in liaising with NHS trusts, community organisations, medical schools and other partners and providers in leadership roles.
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team.
Qualifications
Essential
- Practicing primary care clinician in the borough with at least 4 sessions a month at a practice or PCN in the borough. (Current or recent practice within the last 4 years)
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and revalidation
- MRCGP or equivalent clinical qualification
- Evidence of a license to practice
- Satisfactory Appraisal within the last 12 months or within the most recent 12 months of work, (if currently on a career break)
Desirable
- Clinical leadership qualification
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others.
- Ability to foster quality improvement within clinical practice.
- Judgement: having the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of quality assurance activity.
- Demonstrate the ability to hold to account clinical colleagues.
- Ability to ensure robust governance processes are agreed and in place for projects.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel within the borough and NWL area to provide widespread support to continuously develop the programmes of work.
Desirable
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Project management and change management.
- Ability to produce structured work, strong presentations and deliverables.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
