Job summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the new clinical and care leadership team within NCL ICB and to drive better, more joined up health and care within boroughs and neighbourhoods.
This is a new role that reflects the need for borough-based clinical and care expertise around and support to transformation in each of the five boroughs - "places" - in NCL (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington). Each borough will be appointing to multiple clinical lead roles in each place, with portfolios organised around life-courses: Start Well, Live Well and Age Well.
Clinical leads will support local delivery in line with ICB priorities and the strengthening of local clinical and professional collaboration as we continue to develop as an ICS. Postholders will be key members of borough-based teams, and will report into the borough Clinical Director and Director of Integration.
You will also be part of a broader NCL system-wide clinical and care leadership community to join up, coordinate and share knowledge and work across the ICS footprint, and at the same time providing strategic, clinical and professional input and support.
Working closely with clinical and officer colleagues, postholders will be a key player in building partnerships and collaborating with providers, public health, local authority, other partners (e.g. voluntary sector) and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes, and reductions in health inequality.
Interviews will be held Wed 01/03/23 & Thu 02/03/23.
Main duties of the job
The clinical leads will provide specialist input to borough partnership priorities. As well as inspiring and motivating clinical colleagues to effect change, they will initiate, oversee and directly participate in transformational work linked to Start Well, Live Well and Age Well.
We are seeking individuals with deep knowledge and understanding of the health challenges and priorities faced across NCL boroughs, an understanding of local communities and the local health and care landscape. You will be passionate about, and have experience of, systems leadership, quality improvement, and delivering through collaboration.
Multiple Clinical Lead: Place roles will be appointed to in each borough, with each role focussing on one of the three life courses (Start Well, Live Well, Age Well). Current ICB expectation is that applicants will be able to commit minimum 1 day per week/ maximum 2 days per week to these roles.
Applicants are requested to specify at the start of the supporting statement section which life course(s), the WTE/ number of sessions they wish to be considered for, and any proposed job share arrangements (if known).
About us
On 1 July 2022, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) was established. NCL ICB is part of North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS). The ICS is a partnership of organisations that have come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of ICSs:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
North Central London's population is incredibly diverse and continues to grow and change. This brings pressure and challenges for the local health and care services that NCL ICB commissions - or buys - on behalf of residents. This rich diversity also brings strength and opportunity. NCL ICB works closely with local councils, providers, general practices and primary care, voluntary and community organisations, and unions, to achieve our shared aims.
Job description
Job responsibilities
At a high level, Clinical Lead: Place activities are likely to include:
- Leading the development and delivery of local population health improvement initiatives
- Promoting and facilitating pathway improvement and redesign, while removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within boroughs
- Supporting oversight and management of service quality at place level, by sharing intelligence and working with partners (including regulators) to improve quality of care and outcomes, helping to ensure risks are identified and managed effectively
- Supporting the clinical commissioning cycle including scoping improvement, building a coalition to deliver, working with partners to implement and embed change, evaluating impact
- Ensuring effective joint-working across e.g. the primary and secondary care interface
- Working to improve and promote access, and champion inclusion for hard-to-reach communities
- Providing expert advice and guidance to borough partnership and, where applicable, related partner ambitions
- Offering system-side clinical perspective and support for urgent responses to local operational challenges e.g. winter preparedness, strikes, asylum seeker arrival, disease outbreaks
- Contributing to the GP website, championing its use, and ensuring frontline clinicians make fullest use of this tool
- Building vibrant local communities of clinical practice linking leaders and operators from Trusts, primary care networks, GP federations, and other partners.
- Deputising where needed for the Clinical Director
You will be a registered clinician with a professional body such as NMC, GMC, GPC or other professional body.
Terms of Engagement for GMC registered GPs: TBC sessions (3.5 hours per session) per week, £280 per session and engaged via a secondment agreement. Should there be any issues with engagement via a secondment agreement, please do make this known to the panel during the interview stage so that alternative engagement options can be considered.
Terms of Engagement for individuals employed by NHS organisations/ Local Authorities: WTE per week TBC, Band 8B or equivalent and engaged via a secondment agreement.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full list of duties and responsibilities. The role will report to the Clinical Director: Place and Director of Integration.
Our ICB strategy for population health improvement will be underpinned by quality, clinical and people strategies which set out a commitment to develop, grow and support clinical leaders from all professional backgrounds to play a central and crucial system leadership role in designing and delivering equitable, high quality person-centred care to our patients and residents. We have created a model of clinical and care professional leadership to deliver this commitment and are recruiting to several roles to set us out on our journey.
At NCL ICB, we are committed to ensuring equity and promoting inclusion in everything we do. We aim to have a workforce that is drawn from diverse backgrounds which reflect the communities we serve. If you share our values and ambitions for people living in North Central London and have the skills and experience to drive our Clinical Leadership portfolio forward, then we would be delighted to receive your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
At a high level, Clinical Lead: Place activities are likely to include:
- Leading the development and delivery of local population health improvement initiatives
- Promoting and facilitating pathway improvement and redesign, while removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within boroughs
- Supporting oversight and management of service quality at place level, by sharing intelligence and working with partners (including regulators) to improve quality of care and outcomes, helping to ensure risks are identified and managed effectively
- Supporting the clinical commissioning cycle including scoping improvement, building a coalition to deliver, working with partners to implement and embed change, evaluating impact
- Ensuring effective joint-working across e.g. the primary and secondary care interface
- Working to improve and promote access, and champion inclusion for hard-to-reach communities
- Providing expert advice and guidance to borough partnership and, where applicable, related partner ambitions
- Offering system-side clinical perspective and support for urgent responses to local operational challenges e.g. winter preparedness, strikes, asylum seeker arrival, disease outbreaks
- Contributing to the GP website, championing its use, and ensuring frontline clinicians make fullest use of this tool
- Building vibrant local communities of clinical practice linking leaders and operators from Trusts, primary care networks, GP federations, and other partners.
- Deputising where needed for the Clinical Director
You will be a registered clinician with a professional body such as NMC, GMC, GPC or other professional body.
Terms of Engagement for GMC registered GPs: TBC sessions (3.5 hours per session) per week, £280 per session and engaged via a secondment agreement. Should there be any issues with engagement via a secondment agreement, please do make this known to the panel during the interview stage so that alternative engagement options can be considered.
Terms of Engagement for individuals employed by NHS organisations/ Local Authorities: WTE per week TBC, Band 8B or equivalent and engaged via a secondment agreement.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full list of duties and responsibilities. The role will report to the Clinical Director: Place and Director of Integration.
Our ICB strategy for population health improvement will be underpinned by quality, clinical and people strategies which set out a commitment to develop, grow and support clinical leaders from all professional backgrounds to play a central and crucial system leadership role in designing and delivering equitable, high quality person-centred care to our patients and residents. We have created a model of clinical and care professional leadership to deliver this commitment and are recruiting to several roles to set us out on our journey.
At NCL ICB, we are committed to ensuring equity and promoting inclusion in everything we do. We aim to have a workforce that is drawn from diverse backgrounds which reflect the communities we serve. If you share our values and ambitions for people living in North Central London and have the skills and experience to drive our Clinical Leadership portfolio forward, then we would be delighted to receive your application.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- oClinical/ care professional qualification educated to Masters degree level or equivalent.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oDeep knowledge and understanding of the health challenges and priorities faced within the borough generally, as well as an understanding of local communities and the health and care landscape
- oDeep knowledge and understanding of health and care issues and opportunities relating to specific life-course/s (Start Well, Live Well, Age Well)
- oConfidence in constructively challenging information and explanations provided by others and negotiating when needed.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oStrong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action.
- oEffective leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and borough levels.
- oAble to communicate with colleagues at all levels and engage with patients and residents to ensure their voice is heard.
- oDemonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, and inclusion and social justice.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- oClinical/ care professional qualification educated to Masters degree level or equivalent.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oDeep knowledge and understanding of the health challenges and priorities faced within the borough generally, as well as an understanding of local communities and the health and care landscape
- oDeep knowledge and understanding of health and care issues and opportunities relating to specific life-course/s (Start Well, Live Well, Age Well)
- oConfidence in constructively challenging information and explanations provided by others and negotiating when needed.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oStrong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action.
- oEffective leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and borough levels.
- oAble to communicate with colleagues at all levels and engage with patients and residents to ensure their voice is heard.
- oDemonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, and inclusion and social justice.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
