Employer: North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Pemberton House
Town: Sunderland Enterprise Park
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/01/2025 23:59
Clinical Advisor (Dental)
Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!
Flexible Working Options
We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.
Hybrid Working
This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.
* Competitive salary and pension scheme
* Opportunities for professional development and training
* Supportive team environment
* Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
* Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work
Job Overview
North East North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) covers the 14 local authority areas in the North East and North Cumbria and recognises oral health as a key priority, in its mission to improve health and reduce health inequalities including improving access to dentistry.
We have begun to develop a dental recovery plan and are formulating an Oral Health Strategy for the Integrated Care System across the North East and North Cumbria. To help lead this we are seeking the right person, with the requisite knowledge and expertise to providing external peer challenge and assurance to the system. This will include contributing to and reviewing plans, sharing good practice from and with other regions and systems.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be a registered dentist or consultant dental surgeon, preferably working in practice, with significant clinical experience and experience of leading networks and developing and delivering policy at a regional or national level.
Working with an expanded programme team and a range of stakeholders across the NENC, you will also contribute to the development of a sustainable ICP-wide dental leadership structure.
The post is fixed term for the two years duration of the dental recovery programme and will work with and report in to the executive lead for dental commissioning.
Salary is in accordance with ICB clinical lead roles and will be c. £41,000 (2023/4 rates) for 3 sessions per week.
If you are the right person and share our passion to help us meet the significant dental and oral health challenges our population face and would welcome an informal conversation about this, David Gallagher, our Chief Contracting and Procurement Officer will be delighted to talk to you on 01642 745037.
Working for Our Organisation
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country. The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* Creating and fostering a culture of clinical engagement all sectors in the development of evidence-based pathways that are aligned to clinical standards and best practice.
* Establishing and maintaining effective networks of clinicians within the local health and care economy involving all appropriate stakeholders within the geography and where relevant to specific areas of service development including working closely with formal ICS wide clinical networks.
* Engagement with and the strategic development of dental networks.
* As part of the ICB clinical leadership, ensure connection and communication with the ICB and support the delivery of ICS priorities.
* Develop a multi-professional leadership group that influences cross system working and engages the clinical community.
* Support LDC chairs and dental public health consultants through collaboration to develop and deliver the ICB Oral Health Strategy.
* Provide clinical advice/on dentistry and dental matters.
* Support the development of the local dental leadership.
* Engage in representative groups across the ICS (e.g. NTAG, VBCC including decision makers, Clinical Networks.
* Promoting innovation and resilience, engaging closely with primary care medical and dental colleagues to understand, support and develop solutions to service challenges.
* Demonstrating clinical leadership that is central to the delivery of all activities within the agreed work plan.
* Providing advice and support to the Medical Director for the effective management and leadership of agreed clinical priorities.
* Promote general dental education.
* Engage with professional representative bodies like the LMCs and LDCs when required regarding local issues.
* Provide clinical support and input to local health and wellbeing boards where applicable.
* Adhere to the relevant professional codes of conduct.
* Promote diversity in leadership teams, encourage and support new and aspiring clinical leaders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Medically qualified and registered with the General Medical Council or General Dental Council
* Clinically practicing
* Post Graduate Professional Membership
* Clinically practicing in the NENC ICS
Experience
* Experience of working at a very senior level as a clinical leader, in more than one setting.
* Experience of delivering and driving positive outcomes for patients.
* Demonstrable experience of leading successful pathway redesign and implementation of new clinical pathways with effective local ownership, and engagement.
* Track record of decision-making using strategic multi-professional knowledge and experience.
* Senior experience with a significant contribution to strategy across a range of areas.
* Relevant senior-level management experience in a variety of health and/or social care settings with evidence of effective partnership working.
* Experience of working in joint or integrated arrangements.
* Experience of working in partnership forums.
* Experience in contributing to the delivery of a vision/strategy in a multi-organisational setting through re-design and transformation projects.
* Evidence of previous experience of working within a complex and challenging environment at a very senior level.
The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do not hold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Address: Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
Telephone: 0191 203 1415
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