ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System comprises the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations across the area. The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition. The Nursing and Quality Directorate is responsible for putting patient safety and quality with multi professional leadership at the heart of our system. This means that our health and care performance benefits from the active support and participation of staff within the ICS as part of their day-to-day work. The ICS has committed to developing our clinical and care leadership while adopting an approach to improving the care we provide. It means bringing together the expertise of clinical and multi-professional leaders within a care area to get the best value from our collective system resources, in line with Triple Value aims, ultimately influencing our entire health and care provision. The Directorate will support the system by ensuring quality and safety are at the heart of all we do as well as managing the transition including ongoing pathway development, specialist commissioning activities and change-making within current BAU activity. It will then transform our system by managing our health and care resources through the formation of and delivery by transformation. This post will have a primary responsibility to lead the Mental Health programme for children and young people in Mid and South Essex and ensure we are meeting our duties as an Integrated Care Board. The post holder will support partners and providers to develop a full delivery programme for Mental Health as well as having oversight of delivery and the ICB duty to meet a number of key access targets. The post holder will be working across mid and south Essex as well as working closely with colleagues in the wider Essex footprint. The post will focus on local system oversight and integration of these services to improve outcomes for our children and young people as well as supporting the system to meting significant and rising demand on mental health services. This role will support the ICB with delivery of statutory requirements for locally delivered childrens services. This post will lead on integration, commissioning and contracting, and the development of mental health pathways and services across systems and processes to provide quality and patient safety assurance for the population. COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES Responsible and accountable for decisions made during their duties, escalating significant issues where appropriate. Contribute to setting long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align to this strategy. Responsible for one or more budgets and/or income streams of delivery. Responsible for line management of project manager/s, as agreed with the Deputy Director for BCYP Can demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors. Embed robust governance and assurance processes to facilitate effective delivery ofprogramme plans, and associated projects, including tracking and monitoring progress, escalation of issues and demonstrating the successes and benefits delivered fromindividual programmes of work. Work effectively with people across the ICB, including Nursing & Quality, Stewardship and System transformation Leads, supporting them to fulfil their roles, engaging with stakeholders across partner organisations to deliver efficiency and effectiveness in pursuit of desired programme outcomes. Support programme leads to identify the scope, objectives and outputs of projects and prepare associated project documentation e.g., Business cases, project initiation documents, project implementation plans, benefits realisation and risk analysis plans. Collaborate with healthcare professionals, experts, and stakeholders to design and develop evidence-based neurodiverse clinical pathways that promote standardised, coordinated, and patient-centred care, aligned with best practices and clinical guidelines. Integrate feedback from service users, family forums, health and social care teams to continuously refine and improve clinical pathway design. Through commissioning and transformation Groups develop strategies for the effective allocation and utilisation of health and care resources to support clinical pathway implementation. Facilitate effective specialist training via communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among interdisciplinary teams to promote a culture of integrated care. Analyse data, generate reports, and present findings to inform decision-making. Where this role relates to the discharge of any statutory functions, which may relate to but is not limited to care areas including mental health, learning disability, neurodiversity, babies, children and young people, the post holder will be expected to collaborate with partners to ensure activities complies with regional and local expectations, in particular ICB template those set out within the NHS planning guidance, long term plan and local strategic documents. Any other duties which support and deliver the transformation agenda across the ICS in partnership with all key stakeholders, working in matrix between the System Support and Stewardship development need