Senior Clinical Lead and Quality Oversight
Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)
This role can be located in any of the offices within the ICB footprint.
An exciting new position has arisen to join the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and Complex Care team at Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Clinical Lead and Quality Oversight to join our team. This pivotal role requires a strategic leader with a proven track record in healthcare management, capable of driving innovation and efficiency across complex care services. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional leadership skills, a deep understanding of the healthcare landscape, and the ability to foster collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.
As Senior Clinical Lead and Quality Oversight, you will be responsible for the strategic oversight and operational delivery of the Transforming Care Partnership (TCP) team, ensuring high-quality, patient-centered care. You will lead transformational workstreams, ensure value for money, standardize care practices, and contribute to the reduction of variation across the ICB, ensuring that improvements are delivered and sustained in terms of performance.
Join us in making a significant impact on the lives of our patients and the efficiency of our healthcare services. If you are a leader with a passion for improving healthcare outcomes, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Main Duties of the Job
The Senior Clinical Lead and Quality Oversight will play a crucial role in providing strategic leadership to the Transforming Care services across the Integrated Care Board (ICB). The team will drive admission avoidance processes working in an integrated way with local MH services and intensive support teams and will ensure safe and quality oversight of hospital placements. The team will work strategically with 6 local authorities and market management across the ICB to develop effective discharge opportunities.
This role will have oversight of the Dynamic Support Register for Children and Adults, advising on appropriate actions, directing teams across the ICB to action Care and Treatment Review recommendations, and recommendations from Local Area Emergency Protocols used for admission avoidance.
The Senior Clinical Lead and Quality Oversight will have overarching management responsibility for the Transforming Care team. They will also be responsible for developing and implementing transformational workstreams to deliver both localized and ICB-wide efficiency and savings.
The Senior Clinical Lead and Quality Oversight will lead and provide advice on services and service redesign, focusing on quality oversight and integrating multiple areas of intelligence to drive system-wide patient safety improvements. They will help formulate strategic plans to support quality improvement.
About Us
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning and arranging the provision of NHS services to meet the diverse health needs of a population of 1.7 million people. Our area reaches over 1,500 square miles and includes the cities of Hull and York and the large rural areas across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, and Northern Lincolnshire. The ICB is part of the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, one of 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICS) across England to meet health and care needs, coordinate services and plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequality between groups. The Health and Care Partnership comprises NHS organisations, local councils, health and care providers, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
Job Responsibilities
Accountable to the Humber & North Yorkshire ICB Director of Nursing for CHC and Complex Care, this role will be responsible for the delivery of the ICB Transforming Care clinical performance targets and effective clinical management of the most complex discharges across the ICB within a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
The role requires effective coordination with legal, Ministry of Justice teams, finance teams, and local authorities to ensure successful outcomes and delivery.
The post will manage, as an example, the clinical leads, admission avoidance teams, and processes for people who are at risk of admission to a Mental Health bed with a learning disability and/or autism.
The role will be responsible for developing and delivering transformational clinical workstreams across Transforming Care for the ICB alongside the standardization opportunities which have arisen from the development of a broader population and financial base.
The role will liaise with NHSE regarding performance, escalation of cases, and the prevention of admission and public health agenda of this at-risk group.
The role will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and advice in respect of services and service redesign and leading the broad quality oversight and triangulation of multiple areas of intelligence, working with providers and collaboratives to achieve system-wide patient safety improvements for those with learning disabilities and autism.
The role will be responsible for establishing, embedding, and further developing the Dynamic Support Register across the ICB aligning systems and processes.
The role will offer a link to LEDER to triangulate learning from deaths and the need to implement learning into the prevention of admission teams.
The role will help formulate long-term strategic plans to support the delivery of quality improvement, surveillance in hospital and care settings.
This is a strategic and highly autonomous operational oversight role. The Senior Clinical Lead will operate with a high degree of autonomy and authority, serving as the primary decision-maker in translating national policies into local practice. The post holder will have the independence to interpret and adapt national and regional guidance to suit the specific needs of the Transforming Care Programme (TCP), ensuring alignment with ICB priorities. This role requires decisive leadership in situations where precedents may not exist, enabling the post holder to take proactive actions, implement strategies, and make critical judgments on complex clinical and operational matters without direct oversight. The role's autonomous nature extends to negotiating with external stakeholders and driving system-wide clinical improvements, shaping and contributing to the direction of services for individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism across the ICB.
Person Specification
Experience
* Substantive significant and relevant experience of successfully working at senior management and strategic leadership level in a healthcare organisation.
* Significant experience of successfully working with a range of external organisations including Local Authorities, regulatory agencies, government agencies, voluntary and independent sector.
* Significant experience of engaging with all professional groups to harness expertise with a view to improving the quality of care through change and service reconfiguration.
* Safeguarding experience including extensive knowledge of MCA & DOLs and Court of Protection processes.
* Significant experience and knowledge of the Learning Disabilities and Autism agenda and targets.
* Significant experience of monitoring quality and taking appropriate action.
* Leadership experience of TCP, CHC Complex care, and Mental health.
Qualifications
* Professional manager of clinical services who holds a Masters degree in a health-related subject or has developed a high level of professional expertise (e.g. in staff management/performance management).
* Knowledge that has been supplemented by specialist training or experience (e.g. leadership/management qualifications).
* Extensive advanced specialist knowledge in patient-level complex commissioning, quality assurance in complex care and/or Learning Disabilities and Autism acquired over a significant period and evidenced through advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and experience.
* Competent, confident, and willing to give an independent strategic clinical view on all aspects of Learning Disabilities and Autism.
* Highly regarded as a leader of clinical services across Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, and Autism, escalating and intervening around any areas of concern regarding care and support.
* Able to take a balanced view of the clinical and management agenda and draw on their specialist skills to add value.
* Able to bring detailed clinical insights and perspectives into discussions regarding service redesign, clinical pathways, and system reform.
* Confident to question information and explanations supplied by others, who may be experts in their field.
* Registered health or social care professional who holds a Masters degree in a health-related subject.
Skills and Attributes
* Excellent understanding of good governance and the difference between governance and management.
* Comprehensive understanding of child and adult safeguarding duties and responsibilities.
* Comprehensive understanding and experience of MDT working to facilitate the most complex discharges.
* Comprehensive understanding of statutory duties for public bodies.
* Comprehensive experience of managing significant budgets.
* Excellent understanding of health and appreciation of the broad social, political, and economic trends influencing it.
* Ability to facilitate change in a clinical setting where risk planning is crucial.
* Ability to influence and persuade others.
* Ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives, especially external and individual perspectives.
* Ability to recognize key influencers and the skills in engaging and involving them.
* Commitment to, ability to, and evidence of involving patients, the general public, and frontline staff in shaping and quality assuring the services they receive.
* Full knowledge of equalities and human rights and how this applies to service delivery and service reconfiguration.
* Demonstrate clinical awareness/credibility and ability to translate theory into practice to improve the quality of clinical services at a strategic level.
* High-level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present it in a clear and concise manner.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Experience of working through service level agreements for the delivery of support services.
* Negotiating skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer Name
Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)
Director of Nursing for CHC and Complex Care
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