NHS Devon is looking to appoint an Assistant Director of Women & Children's who will provide clinical, professional and managerial leadership to the team responsible for commissioning women and children’s services across Devon. The team works to secure the best possible outcomes for patients with a strong focus on improving and maintaining Quality Improvement, integration, and innovation. The post holder will ensure that the ICB exercises its functions effectively, economically, with good governance and in accordance with the terms of the NHS constitution.
The individual will be a clinical registrant with substantial exposure in senior leadership roles and they will undertake professional responsibility for driving improvements, providing strategic and operational leadership within the following commissioning workstreams:
1. Community
2. Mental Health
3. Learning Disability and Autism
4. Paediatrics
5. Maternity and Women’s Health
6. Lead commissioner for Child & Family Health Devon and Livewell Southwest children’s contracts
As a member of the senior ICB team, they will personally create the conditions for effective positive working relationships between the ICB, providers and provider collaboratives, and our three Local Authorities, as well as a range of voluntary sector organisations in Devon. They will be required to deputise for the Director of W&C Services, and W&C Improvement and ensure collaborative working within the Chief Nursing Officer and all other ICB directorates.
The post holder will work with senior leaders to deliver strategic and operational plans working in a collaborative and robust way with partner organisations. They will engage and build relationships with system partners to ensure a true system approach to production and delivery of plans. For this area, this means dealing with providers, our three district councils, volunteer groups, and a range of NHS organisations in Devon. In addition, the post holder will:
1. Monitor and establish accountability on the overall progress of strategy to ensure completion within agreed timescales including delivery of STP wide agreed priority programme within their team;
2. Be responsible for managing and leading a team;
3. Develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting innovation and commissioning of quality services across Devon including managing and actively promoting the relationships with key stakeholders.
The post holder will also be responsible to the Director of Women and Children and will act as their deputy where appropriate. As part of this role, there will be a requirement to work in a matrix and flexible way across multiple areas/teams to support business needs. The objectives of the role will be regularly reviewed to align to organisational priorities.
NHS Devon Integrated Care System
As an Integrated Care System (ICS), we recognise now more than ever that we can only provide the care that people really need by working together. Together for Devon therefore represents a partnership where health and care services work together with local communities to improve people's health, wellbeing and care. It aims to transform health and care services so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.
Our vision is simple: equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives. To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including: Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.
About NHS Devon
As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of the county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve people's health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money. The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve people's lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.
For more information, visit our ICS website www.icsdevon.co.uk and our NHS Devon website www.devon.icb.nhs.uk.
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
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