Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Lead
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months
- Hours
- Part time
- Job ref
- 983-ICB-7078KB
- Employer
- NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jenner House
- Town
- Chippenham
- Salary
- £99,891 - £114,949 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/05/2024
Employer heading
ICB Clinical Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 9
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through research and experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's 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 work towards ensuring that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
Applications are warmly welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and we will aim to accommodate these wherever the needs of the service allow.
BSW ICB seeks to be a supportive, caring employer and expects all colleagues to behave in a professional and respectful manner and to demonstrate our values. These values underpin our vision for the people of Bath & North East Somerset (Banes), Swindon & Wiltshire, that through an integrated care model local people will live well in a supportive community with joined up care which is underpinned by specialist expertise, and delivered in the best place, by the most appropriate people.
Please note that on 1st July 2022, Banes, Swindon & Wiltshire CCG will cease to exist. At this time the Integrated Care Board (ICB) in BSW will be established, to be known formally as NHS BSW ICB. NHS BSW ICB assume all the commissioning functions from BSW NHS Commissioners.
Job overview
To enable the best possible outcomes for our patients and population.
Working with colleagues to provide clinical leadership to the BSW system and provider clinical workforce, to support and advise clinical teams to deliver high quality services that bring health and care benefits to the organisations we support and populations we serve.
The primary aims of the role are two-fold. Firstly, working directly within the Chief Medical Officer Directorate to ensure effective clinical leadership and governance to BSW ICB services working in support of regulated health and care bodies and secondly, the postholder is accountable for the strategic health and care professional leadership of a mixed portfolio of clinical services ensuring all clinical, best practice, statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements are met.
An experienced senior clinical health or care leader with a proven track record in delivering clinical health or care services which are of the highest standard. You will be required to support change through collaboration and mature partnership working. This calls for an individual to engage people, focus their resources, sustain momentum, and ensure clinical strategic and planning success. Effective system convening will require the full commitment and ability of a senior clinician to create an environment of trust, inclusion, mutual respect, and shared aspiration, in which all can contribute fully and openly to achieving collective goals.
Main duties of the job
This post will work as part of a group of clinicians providing clinical input across system wide services, aligned to the CMO Directorate workplan, BSW Implementation plan and priorities at system and place, there will be a need for leadership to convene clinical opinions and expertise, network across health and care sectors and develop and maintain clinical networks. This role and team will support other functions of the ICB, although this role will not undertake duties with commissioning, operational management or project management, the post holder will provide joint responsibility on budget setting and monitor budget spending across several services and directly impact ICS budgetary spending of multi-million-pound major programmes. The essence of the role is professionally diverse and inclusive clinical opinion.
Please find further details in the attached job description, required qualification & education and personal specification documents.
Working for our organisation
Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) is an Integrated Care System (ICS) - a partnership of the local authorities and NHS organisations. We have a shared ambition to work with local people, communities and colleagues to improve the health and wellbeing of every person within BSW.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the BSW ICS, in which the post holder will play a crucial role in delivery of our ICS Safeguarding agenda. Working closely with clinical and professional colleagues, your skills, experience, energy and enthusiasm will help drive the delivery of BSW transformation .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- To hold a portfolio across multiple clinical pathways according to experience and interest, in a mixed portfolio that may include condition or pathway specifics, for example but not limited to, Cancer, Mental Health, Aging Well, MSK, CVD, Diabetes, UEC and Palliative Care.
- To support the strategic development of service/pathway portfolio to support the ICB strategy, underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives.
- Provide senior clinical input and networking into the delivery of a wide-ranging portfolio that will help deliver credible, reputable, and professional clinical services by the ICS and its partners.
- Responsible for the research and development of clinical trials relating to the role portfolio to benefit BSW ICB and the wider ICS. Share personal research findings and knowledge regarding clinical advancement and development with their team, peers, and networks.
- Demonstrate knowledge, clinical perspective and clinical networking at a system, region, and national level, Including potential SRO roles into the region on behalf of BSW ICB.
- The role will support the strategic and operational development and delivery of coherent and effective network arrangements in any given BSW geographical area, ensuring activities are aligned to and support commissioners in achieving outcome ambitions for Place and System.
- Facilitate the local services or networks in specific clinical pathways/projects to embed the BSW Strategy and Implementation plan.
- This post holder will hold a degree of professional responsibility for the professional group they are a member to, inputting into the ICB Clinical Productivity agenda.
- To foster a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across system wide pathways, this will include ensuring clinical colleagues are fully committed to the delivery of ambitious programmes.
- As part of the CMO team the role may use professional expertise to support team members and the professional development of the wider clinical community.
- As part of the CMO team the role may use clinical expertise and knowledge to influence ICS commissioning decisions.
- To devise training and development programmes to enhance clinical knowledge in their portfolio area(s).
- To work with the Chief Clinical Information Officer to adapt and design information systems including the Integrated Care Record, Cinapsis and Population Health Management tools to ensure best value from these tools for use in the portfolio area pathways.
- To initiate and develop research and development programmes in their portfolio area including securing funding.
- To ensure quality improvement and condition specific programmes benefit from the best clinical expertise available, awareness and understanding of the population health agenda and health and care outcomes.
- To maintain credibility with all key players within the network and community, fostering a culture of collaboration for the delivery of high-quality services, reconciling conflicting views and interests from across the system.
- To provide professional and clinical leadership to the clinical teams within the BSW networks.
Please find further details in the attached job description, required qualification & education and personal specification documents.
Interviews to be held on Friday 17 May and/or Thursday 23 May 2024 depending on applications.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level of experience or qualification with the highest specialist knowledge across one or more areas.
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Proven and significant clinician leadership experience.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare /Social Care environment.
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies
- Member of a relevant professional body
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
Analytical
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
Planning Skills & Autonomy
Essential criteria
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charley Ward
- Job title
- Executive Assistant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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