Employer: North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Pemberton House
Town: Sunderland Enterprise Park
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/01/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
This is an exciting opportunity within the ICB for a permanent Band 7 Primary Care Programme Lead within the Local Delivery Directorate in South Tyneside and Sunderland. The post is full time; however, we are willing to consider part time or other flexible arrangements.
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
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all our communities. It has a wide range of functions including promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across health and care, we look after 3.1 million 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.
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 peoples health and well-being, and reducing health inequalities.
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
As Programme Lead within the Primary Care team, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team across the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) in the management of contracts, including the commissioning and decommissioning of services, performance management, transformation, assurance and related projects.
As an essential part of the team, the post holder will work on a variety of projects and tasks collaborating with different teams within NENC ICB and with providers (GP practices). Working autonomously, the post holder will be supporting the quality assurance and payment of enhanced services as well as ensuring GP contracts are kept up to date.
The post holder will support the Commissioning Manager and Head of Primary Care in the delivery of Primary Care and Community services to the South Tyneside and Sunderland area.
The post holder will be responsible for building effective working relationships with stakeholders and be able to use local knowledge of the area and contractors to inform effective commissioning of services, contributing to the development of service specifications and to the development and redesign of care pathways, to ensure commissioned services provide quality and value for money.
The role is a great opportunity to develop skills in project management, risk management, dealing with sensitive information and leadership.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in the primary care commissioning/mental health/urgent emergency care and transformation area.
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)
Experience
* Knowledge of primary care commissioning and transformation areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
* Experience of project principles techniques and tools.
* Experience of estates, premises cost directions and capital funding.
* Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
* Experience of operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at management team level.
* Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
* Understanding of the public sector. Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
* Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
* Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
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 of 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.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address: Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
Telephone: 0191 203 1415
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