Clinical Lead for Individual Funding Requests

Job description

Job responsibilities

The ICB welcomes all applicants, however, we must remind applicants that we currently do not hold a Tier 2 sponsorship license (now called Skilled Worker visa sponsorship). Can we politely ask this is considered before applying for this position.

Purpose of the Role:

Support the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (H&NY ICB) in its statutory responsibility for commissioning services including medicines and other treatments for the population it serves.

Consider complex individual funding requests (for individual packages of healthcare outwith current service level agreements or Payment by Results mechanisms), and advise the ICB Place team about their funding.

Chair (on a rotating basis) the system IFR panel.

Ensure all relevant aspects of a proposed treatment are considered, including:

o Appropriateness in relation to individual clinical need, including whether expected benefits outweigh any risks, and considering any exceptional need;

o Appropriateness in relation to current commissioning protocols and national, regional or local guidelines;

o Review of the evidence base for safety and efficacy (or if new and experimental, within a clinical trial);

o Suitability of organisational setting in relation to clinical governance;

o Cost-benefit analysis if available (setting priorities with scarce resources);

o Implications of setting precedent.

Participate in these IFR activities throughout the month:

o reviewing clinically triaged requests;

o making recommendations outside of IFR panel meetings;

o pre-viewing all cases allocated to the next IFR panel (within 5 working days of the IFR panel sitting);

o attending IFR panel meetings to either review and ratify decisions or chair the meetings;

o reviewing minutes after panel meetings (within 5 working days).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Inclusion on either the Specialist Register or the General Practice Register of the GMC.

Desirable

• Expertise in primary care development and/or professional education and development
• Postgraduate qualification or
• Membership or Fellowship of one or more of the Medical Royal Colleges, or relevant Faculties of these.

Skills / Competencies

Essential

• Familiarity with statistics and research methodology
• Able to demonstrate a sound understanding of the principles and practice of evidence based medicine, and assessing the evidence base.
• Able to demonstrate the practical application of research findings in NHS service provision and commissioning.
• Knowledge of epidemiological principles and a population perspective in resource allocation
• Excellent oral, written and IT communication skills
• Effective networking and leadership skills
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to access electronic databases to identify relevant research papers

Experience

Essential

• Clinical experience

Desirable

• Experience of multi-agency working
• Currently in clinical practice

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)

Address

East Riding Place

Health House

Willerby

HU10 6DT

Employer's website

https://humberandnorthyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)