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.
Main duties of the job
The Planned Care Steward provides clinical leadership to support the implementation of ICS-wide priorities in areas of planned care not specifically covered by another steward. The exact clinical areas are likely to vary over time, as needs change and different projects evolve, but they are likely to involve providing clinical input and strategic leadership to the redesign of clinical pathways in line with the "left shift" of care out of acute hospitals.
Working closely with providers, PCNs, and Place Boards, the Steward drives transformation initiatives, improves care pathways, and ensures alignment with the ICS's clinical strategy.
Job responsibilities
The Planned Care Transformation Steward will undertake the following duties:
Leadership and Strategy
* Provide clinical leadership for the programmes of work to improve the care of people needing planned care and to left shift planned care closer to home where possible, ensuring alignment with the ICS's eight ambitions, the Joint Forward Plan (JFP), and the Fuller Stocktake recommendations.
* Work collaboratively with place Stewards to integrate Planned Care with local health inequalities plans and other place-level initiatives.
* Represent Planned Care at ICS governance meetings and decision-making forums, ensuring these priorities are reflected in system-wide planning.
Operational Integration
* Collaborate with the Primary Care Commissioning Committee and system partners to ensure the effective and equitable implementation of planned care elements of the ICS Clinical Strategy.
* Support the Medicines Optimisation Team by contributing to formulary decisions, prescribing guidelines, and the development of pathways related to planned care.
* Engage in the development and oversight of the Individual Funding Request (IFR) process, including being a member of the IFR panel ensuring alignment with system priorities and equity of access.
Workforce Development and Transformation
* Support the development of future clinical leaders by facilitating leadership training, professional development opportunities, and system-wide collaboration.
* Engage in workforce planning to identify gaps and propose sustainable, innovative solutions for planned care staffing.
The postholder will have access to a dedicated Clinical Stewardship Development Programme, designed to enhance leadership skills, foster collaboration, and provide tailored support for their role within the ICS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Clinical or Care qualified with a current licence to practise or included on a relevant professional register.
Experience
* Minimum of 5 years' professional practice, with at least 2 years 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.
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