The Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme was established in 2019 to oversee the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan commitments for children and young people (CYP).
More recently, the government set out its ambition to raise the healthiest generation of children in our history. To achieve this ambition, we need to make substantial changes to the services children use to improve children’s health outcomes. The National Speciality Advisor will be vital to the successful delivery of NHS England’s strategic priorities for CYP and will ensure new policies are clinically led.
We work particularly closely with the National Clinical Director for Children and Young People and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
The work of the programme is overseen by a Children and Young People Transformation Programme Board that brings together key partners across health, care and education.
The National Speciality Advisor will support the National Clinical Directors and Medical Directors to provide clinical advice and leadership including:
• Clinical advice and leadership to drive transformation of services for patients;
• Clinical advice to support the commissioning of services; and
• Clinical advice on ad hoc issues to support parliamentary accountability.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership and advice to support the programme SRO and National Clinical Director in the successful delivery of the Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme. This includes influencing policy development and implementation, securing key stakeholder buy-in, promoting the NHS and acting as a spokesperson for both organisations.
The National Specialty Advisor will provide input into other clinical leads across the organisation in their specialty (e.g. GIRFT leads, CRG chairs) to ensure all parts of the organisation are pulling in the same direction.
The appointment is offered on secondment on a part time basis (0.2 FTE), to be agreed between the team and successful candidate with an annual review of progress.
Contractual arrangements:
• Secondment until 31 January 2027
• Part time / 0.2 FTE / 2 PA per week
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
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The National Specialty Advisor will provide clinical advice for NHS England’s major programmes of work. They will work with programme senior responsible owners, the National Clinical Director and other stakeholders to develop and deliver the programme’s ambitions improving the quality and value of healthcare services and ensuring programmes are clinically focused and credible.
The National Specialty Advisor for Children and Young People will be responsible for the provision of high quality clinical advice to drive the government’s ambitions to improve outcomes for Children and Young People.
Responsibilities will include:
• Being a senior member of the Children and Young People’s Transformation Programme, which will include working across many of the national commitments for Children and Young People such as improving care for long-term conditions, reducing infant mortality and redesigning the transition to adult services.
• Working with Local Systems to support them with transforming services for children and young people and delivering on local plans. This will include working with ICB Children and Young People’s programme teams.
• Input into other key NHS programmes of work such as specialised commissioning, elective recovery, urgent and emergency care, clinical audit, improvement programmes and clinical policy.
• Providing clinical advice on live issues and incidents as they arise and clinical input for Parliamentary business, media and Board meetings.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jan 2025