Clinical Steward for General Practice & Integrated Care
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Stewardship is a collaborative and strategic approach to healthcare leadership that emphasises shared responsibility for optimising resources, improving population health outcomes, and tackling health inequalities. This model fosters integration and innovation by aligning care delivery with system-wide goals, ensuring a patient-centred and value-based approach.
* As a steward, the individual is expected to embody these principles by: Leading collaboratively: Driving integration across sectors and fostering collective accountability by convening multi-agency stakeholders to address shared challenges. Stewards should actively lead discussions, mediate between parties, and create unified action plans.
* Championing data-driven insights: Using analytics and evidence to inform clinical and operational decisions that enhance patient care and reduce disparities. Examples include developing targeted interventions using population health data or designing risk stratification tools.
* Engaging with stakeholders: Building and maintaining robust relationships across health and care systems to ensure alignment with shared objectives and priorities. This involves regular communication with patient groups, clinical leads, and external agencies.
The roles are intended for Clinical and Care Professionals (CCPs) who are actively engaged in system-wide transformation, ensuring alignment with ICS-wide priorities and fostering integrated care solutions.
Main duties of the job
* Provide clinical leadership for the development of the Primary Care Strategic Framework and its four Long-Term Plans for delivery, ensuring alignment with ICS priorities and the JFP ambitions and national planning guidance.
* Collaborate with Place Stewards to align general practice developments with local health inequalities action plans and delivery strategies.
* The Steward will lead efforts to reduce inequalities in access and outcomes, using population health data to support the design of targeted interventions for underserved communities.
* Provide leadership and insight from general practice in ICS governance structures, ensuring perspectives are embedded in system-wide decision-making.
About us
Health and care services in Norfolk and Waveney are working closely together to further improve services and provide more joined-up care for local people. In Norfolk and Waveney, we have already achieved a lot by working in partnership to improve health and care outcomes. These changes have been made possible by different organisations - NHS hospitals, GPs, mental health and community health services, local councils, care homes and social workers, voluntary and community organisations and others - joining forces to agree and plan for local people's needs.
Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) includes a statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), and an Integrated Care Board (ICB) called NHS Norfolk and Waveney. This partnership and organisation dedicated to making sure that organisations work together for the benefit of our residents, staff and communities is an important step change, helping to create positive differences to local people and joining up health and social care. This is the culmination of many years of effort to build partnership working across the NHS, local authorities, the third sector and patient groups.
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Steward for General Practice & Integrated Care will undertake the following duties:
Leadership and Strategy:
* Provide clinical leadership for the development, delivery, and review of the General Practice Strategy, ensuring alignment with the ICS's eight ambitions and the Joint Forward Plan (JFP).
* Work collaboratively with place Stewards to integrate general practice strategies with local health inequalities plans and other place-level initiatives.
* Represent general practice at ICS governance meetings and decision-making forums, ensuring general practice priorities are reflected across system planning.
Operational Integration:
* Collaborate with the Primary Care Commissioning Committee to ensure general practice elements of the ICS Clinical Strategy are implemented effectively and equitably.
* Support the Medicines Optimisation Team by serving as deputy chair for the Therapeutics Advisory Group and contributing to the Drug and Therapeutics Committee.
* Support the ongoing development of the Individual Funding Request (IFR) process, ensuring alignment with system priorities and promoting equitable access to treatments. The Steward will also be expected to attend at least 75% of IFR panel meetings annually, ensuring clinical stewardship principles are embedded in decision-making.
Person Specification
Qualifications:
* Clinical or Care qualified with current licence to practise or included on a relevant professional register, Currently working in general practice in N&W.
Experience:
* In professional practice working in primary care for over 5 years with a minimum of 2 years' experience in a leadership, research or educational role within an NHS or social care organisation.
* Currently working in the N&W ICS.
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.
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Executive Director Patient and Communities
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