ICS Children and Young People’s Clinical Respiratory Lead
The postholder will lead the implementation and delivery of the Asthma Bundle of Care within Frimley ICS, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based respiratory care for children and young people.
This role involves developing and embedding best practices for respiratory care.
Collaborating across primary, secondary, and community care settings, the Clinical Lead will engage with multidisciplinary teams, schools, local authorities, charities, and families to address health inequalities and improve outcomes.
The post-holder will champion asthma awareness and prevention through training, public health initiatives, and integrated pathways aligned with national standards. They will monitor service performance, collect data to demonstrate impact, and lead quality improvement projects. This role requires clinical expertise, strategic vision, and the ability to influence stakeholders to achieve a cohesive, child-centred approach to respiratory care across the ICS.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, including national networks. Key relationships will include:
* ICS CYP Respiratory Network
* ICS Adult Respiratory Network
* CCG staff, clinical leads, practices, lay members, and patient representatives.
* Women and Children's Commissioning staff and other CCG teams.
* Local Councils including Children's Commissioning and Public Health.
* Service Providers including NHS Trusts, Community providers, Primary care colleagues, Independent Contractors, Local Authorities, and the Voluntary Sector.
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, presenting information to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.
Committed to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of issues.
Link with managers and members of other functions to address interdependencies and ensure alignment.
Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of any change.
About us
NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.
The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector, people, and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers 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, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates, and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible, and responsible staff culture.
Benefits include:
* Agile Working; currently 1 day a fortnight office based.
Supportive team, flexible working arrangements, and access to NHS leadership development and training opportunities.
Job responsibilities
The National bundle of care for children and young people with asthma is phase one of a plan to support integrated care systems to deliver high-quality asthma care. The bundle is a system programme which brings together primary and secondary care, parents/carers, children and young people, and education to support asthma management and diagnosis.
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities, and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
* Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area.
* Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post-graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
* Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.
* Member of relevant professional body.
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Communication Skills
* Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
* Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Analytical Skills
* Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
* Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
* Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
Planning Skills
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
* Comprehensive experience of project principles, techniques, and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Management Skills
* Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
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.
£53,755 to £60,504 a year, pro rata.
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