Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB
As the Associate Director of Nursing for All-age Complex and Continuing Care (AACCC), you will play a key role in developing the clinical service in line with the national framework for continuing healthcare and CYPCC, delivering quality-focused outcomes within the AACCC service. Working closely with the Associate Director of operational delivery AACCC, you will support strategy formulation, policy development, and process improvement to ensure the service operates effectively and remains compliant with national frameworks. You will provide line management oversight and clinical professional subject matter expertise to the Continuing Healthcare, Children and Young Peoples Continuing Care, and complex care team.
Main duties of the job
This role requires strong clinical leadership, subject matter expertise, analytical, and communication skills to manage a large multidisciplinary team. With the ability to manage budgets, lead projects, and influence stakeholders, you will collaborate with local, regional, and national partners to embed best practices and ensure services are both patient-focused and equitable. Senior clinical leadership skills are critical, as you will monitor clinical outcomes and patient experience and contribute to the overall quality improvement agenda within AACCC services. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for our diverse communities.
About us
In the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers the geography across three counties and aligns with the local authority boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire, and Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While overall in good health and socio-economic condition, there are pockets of severe deprivation.
Our constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3 acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance trust, and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of public money each year.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates, and people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Job responsibilities
All Age Continuing Care covers Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care as a statutory duty of the Integrated Care Board for individuals with a primary health need, including Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Physical Disability, and Fast Track.
All Age Continuing Care also has Integrated Care Board duties to children and young people (Children's Continuing Care), joint packages of health and social care (where an individual is not eligible for Continuing Healthcare but specific needs have been identified through the Decision Support Tool that are beyond the powers of the local authority to meet on its own), personal health budgets, stand-alone health needs, s117 of the Mental Health Act, and Specialist Rehabilitation (Acquired Brain Injury).
The post holder will develop effective strategic, operational, and commissioning policies for NHS All Age Continuing Care across the ICB, working with Places and Integrated Commissioning models to achieve this. Encouraging innovation and working closely with colleagues across the sector, the post holder will:
1. Develop the strategy for NHS All Age Continuing Care, supporting and ensuring alignment across the ICB, removing unwarranted variation and promoting innovation in service delivery.
2. Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform the development of strategy and policies.
3. Develop and communicate the vision for NHS All Age Continuing Care in the ICB, engaging with key partners and ensuring strategy and policies support this vision.
4. Identify examples of national best practice to ensure that patients benefit from relevant innovations in NHS All Age Continuing Care.
5. Continue the improvements in NHS All Age Continuing Care to achieve the standards required in the National Framework NHSE Assurance Framework, S117 of the Mental Health Act.
6. Drive the transformation of NHS All Age Continuing Care in the ICB to meet the aspirations of the ICB to have a Place-based integrated delivery model that supports joint working with local teams and services.
Person Specification
Management Skills
* Abilities for financial and staff management.
* Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
* Experience of creating a team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
* Ability to delegate effectively and ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
* Experience of leading change initiatives in a challenging organisational environment.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse.
* Have a recognised health or social care qualification or membership of a relevant professional body.
* Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area.
* Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.
Planning Skills
* Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
Analytical
* High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
* Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
* High level critical thinking skills.
Experience
* Proven experience of personally achieving board approvals and leading and delivering complex change programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
* Extensive knowledge of NHS CHC and CYPCC.
* Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
* Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
* Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Communication Skills
* Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
* Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context.
* Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
* Strong external communications and board approvals skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
* Ability to provide and receive, convey, and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
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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