Job summary
As the Clinical Senate Chair, the post holder will lead the strategic and operational development and delivery of coherent and effective senate arrangements in a given geographical area, ensuring activities are aligned to and support commissioners in achieving outcome ambitions for patients and benefits to population health.
The postholder will have overall responsibility for clinical leadership, engagement and influence in Senate activities. Key aspects of this role will be:o To provide overarching professional and clinical leadership of the Clinical Senate in the defined areao To provide strategic clinical advice to constituent commissioning organisations across the totality of health and social careo To communicate the role and added value of the Clinical Senate ensuring advice and input is fed into the commissioning To provide leadership for improving and safeguarding quality
The post holder will be professionally accountable to the Regional Medical Director. The post holder will work alongside the Head of Clinical Senate and AHSN.
Main duties of the job
oOperate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and engage proactively with stakeholders.oCommunicate effectively, building good working relationships, providing information and advice to a wide range of internal and external stakeholdersoLead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate and challenge each key working relationship to innovate and to achieve agreed objectives.oProvide and receive highly complex, sensitive and potentially contentious information, presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings.oManage situations with staff and stakeholders within change programmes for successful outcomes, often dealing with complex and conflicting issues with staff and stakeholders.oEmploy effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of projects/programmes.oRepresent the Region in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level Clinical Senate expert panels or recruit appropriate clinicians to chair these lead the Clinical Senate Council and engage with the wider Clinical Senate Assembly which supports it, to ensure broad and effective involvement of current and developing clinical leaders and experts across the wider health and care system.
About us
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:
1. Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
2. Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
3. Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
4. Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
5. Delivering value for money.
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Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details about this role and its responsibilities.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
6. Registered with the GMC. Educated to masters' level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist clinical area. Post Graduate or management qualification.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
7. Knowledge and experience of working in formal clinical networks within the NHS.
8. Good understanding of integrated models of care across primary, secondary, tertiary and community care at a strategic level.
9. Track record of delivering major change in clinical services.
10. Senior clinician with an identified clinical leadership role, operating at or close to Board level.
Skills Capabilities and Attributes
Essential
11. The ability to build excellent collaborative networks.
12. Excellent leadership skills and the ability to motivate.
13. Evidence of partnership working with a range of external organisations Positive attitude; ability to engage and enthuse others.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
14. Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.