Job summary
We are looking for a clinical and care lead with strong working knowledge about Barking & Dagenham or similar experience in another borough.Working as part of the Place based Partnership team, you will have a pivotal role in improving outcomes for our young residents. You will link to the wider team to support the working including the clinical director, education, social care, community, secondary care providers and voluntary sector.
Taking a population health approach and with a health inequalities focus, you will contribute to developing end-to-end pathways, education sessions and service developments as well as advising on medicines optimisation. You will also provide expertise to a range of specific projects.
Linking to both North-East London and NHSE projects and colleagues, you will liaise with the relevant teams, provide the local approach for implementation and agree on funding and reporting for specific schemes.
You will work closely with partners to embed a preventative approach, as well as improving services for children and young people.
Building on our long history of successful collaboration between primary and secondary care, public health and CEG you will use data, education, and clinical evidence to support colleagues in providing best practice health and care to our population.
Main duties of the job
Some examples of specific projects you could be involved in are:o Working on Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Improvement plan;o Improve Children Emotional Mental Health and Wellbeing Pathways and services with all key partners;o Improve health outcomes for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities;o Develop our CYP Proactive Care SEND/ASTHMA pilots in B&D;o Help embed Neurodisability service in B&D;
About us
The North-East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together health, care and wider community partners who serve our vibrant and highly diverse communities in the 7 London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Newham, Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, and City & Hackney - our Places which we collectively refer to as North-East London (NEL).
NHS North-East London wants to create a sustainable system that responds to its communities, looks after its staff and acts to reduce inequalities. The Place based Partnerships within each of our boroughs are an exciting development that will see resources and decision making closer to local people and front-line staff, giving the new Clinical and Care Leadership teams working with Place based Partners the ability to genuinely lead and drive change and improve outcomes for local people.
We will be providing development support for those appointed into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles.
We are looking for health professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document for full duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
1. Recognised General Practice qualification (MRCGP minimum qualification) or HCPC Registered health professional or NMC Registered or General Pharmaceutical Council or equivalent experience
Desirable
2. A recognised qualification in a QI methodology, or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
3. Significant/ substantial experience working in a leadership or managerial capacity, including local connections at place thorough current practices.
4. Evidence of planning and delivering of transformation change to deliver agreed objectives
5. Experience of clinical / care professional and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team
6. Experience of continuously and demonstrably improving patient outcomes and tackling health inequalities
7. Experience of participating in and leading effective engagement with local people to understand their experience of care delivered and improvements that should be made
8. Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
9. Experience of committees and / or working groups
Knowledge
Essential
10. Demonstrate knowledge of the priorities and aims of the NHS Long Term Plan and the Barking and Dagenham programmes to date, and a solid understanding of the challenges facing local health and care systems.
11. A sound understanding of health and care interfaces, the changing landscape of health and social care and impact of wider social determinates on health
12. Demonstrate the skills required for effective working with health and social care partners at both a Place Based Partnership, and at North-East London Integrated Care System level
13. Demonstrate a sound understanding of current NHS issues and place-based partnership working between health and care organisations in particular
14. Embrace effective governance, accountability and delivering best value for money
Desirable
15. Knowledge of QI approaches to service improvement