Job summary
Role Purpose
This role will provide leadership to the clinical and care professional network for the Women's Health portfolio across the Integrated Care Board (ICB), and to the other Place Clinical & Care Professional Leads across the range of portfolio areas. They will be the ICB Women's Health portfolio representative on the Lancashire and South Cumbria Clinical and Care Professional Assembly.
The Clinical and Care Professional Women's Health ICB Lead will link with Place Based Partnerships (PBP) to ensure they have awareness of place level priorities and ongoing work, and support engagement at Place for PBP and system-wide work. They will oversee the quality of the Women's Health services across the ICS, identifying where development and improvement are required, and leading project and programmes to deliver this.
Although the focus of the role is Women's Health it will involve working with portfolio leads across Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB, including representing the system and portfolio at relevant forums, identifying issues of concern and sharing improvements.
Main duties of the job
Work across the system to provide clinical leadership in relation to Women's Health pathways, clinical guidelines, operational standards, and key outcome measures described in the Primary Care DES, NHS Long Term Plan and other key policy documents.
Develop and support engagement with the PBPs.
Engage with the Primary and Community care Transformation groups for the ICB (governance in planning).
Support to the Women's Health clinical networks to provide support wider engagement.
Provide leadership input to the Women's Health programmes of work.
Support the development of quality and performance for Women's Health during this transitional year.
About us
Risk ManagementYou are required to contribute to the control of risk and use the incident reporting system to alert the ICB of incidents or near misses that may compromise the quality of services.
Equality & DiversityThe ICB is committed to equality and diversity and works hard to make sure all staff and service users have access to an environment that is open and a free from discrimination. As an ICB we value the diversity of our staff and service users, and therefore recognise and appreciate that everyone associated with the ICB is different and so should be treated in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences.In support of this all staff are required to be aware of the ICB's Equality and Diversity Policy and the commitments and responsibilities the ICB has to:
Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act
Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do notWe firmly believe that it makes good business sense to have a workforce representative of the communities we serve and so encourage applications from all sections of the community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Clinical and Care Professional Womens Health ICB Lead.
1 day / 2 sessions per week but negotiable with an opportunity for flexible working
Two Year Tenure Secondment
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within our geography. We respect that communities know what they need best and aim to nurture a culture that embraces shared learning and supports clinical and care professional leaders to collaborate and innovate with a wide range of partners, including patients and local communities.
Through our clinical and care professional leadership framework you will be a part of a new way of working that aims to support health and social care to work effectively together, support care to be locally delivered, managed and planned and improve access by collaborating in care delivery to collectively manage vulnerable services.
You should be a clinical or care qualified (which includes social work) professional, have exceptional communication skills and be confident at working to develop effective relationships and work in partnership.
You should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current health and social care national aims and policies in your chosen specialist area as well as robust local knowledge of the determinants and barriers to providing user focused services in this area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Clinical and Care Professional Womens Health ICB Lead.
1 day / 2 sessions per week but negotiable with an opportunity for flexible working
Two Year Tenure Secondment
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within our geography. We respect that communities know what they need best and aim to nurture a culture that embraces shared learning and supports clinical and care professional leaders to collaborate and innovate with a wide range of partners, including patients and local communities.
Through our clinical and care professional leadership framework you will be a part of a new way of working that aims to support health and social care to work effectively together, support care to be locally delivered, managed and planned and improve access by collaborating in care delivery to collectively manage vulnerable services.
You should be a clinical or care qualified (which includes social work) professional, have exceptional communication skills and be confident at working to develop effective relationships and work in partnership.
You should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current health and social care national aims and policies in your chosen specialist area as well as robust local knowledge of the determinants and barriers to providing user focused services in this area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation
- Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area
Leadership
Essential
- Be competent, confident and willing to give an unbiased strategic clinical or professional view on aspects of quality and safety within the ICB and PBPs;
- Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multi-professional and multiple stakeholder involvement
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of health, care and local government landscape, and integrated care agenda
- Knowledge and understanding of population health inequalities and how this impacts people's outcomes and experience of health and care provision
- Understanding of the LSC system and its population
Experience
Essential
- Making sound operational or clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision
- Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including members of the public, clinical and professional leaders
- Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities
Approach
Essential
- Encourage and test new ways of working together, collaborating and learning from each other to achieve our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population
- Determination and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity in an effective way
- Commitment to improving the health, care and wellbeing of the population
Skills
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to maintain a positive and constructive profile
- Ability to influence and persuade, articulate a balanced view and encourage constructive debate with the confidence to question and challenge effectively
- Ability to demonstrate effective system leadership behaviours
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation
- Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area
Leadership
Essential
- Be competent, confident and willing to give an unbiased strategic clinical or professional view on aspects of quality and safety within the ICB and PBPs;
- Have the skills and experience to plan and chair meetings with multi-professional and multiple stakeholder involvement
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of health, care and local government landscape, and integrated care agenda
- Knowledge and understanding of population health inequalities and how this impacts people's outcomes and experience of health and care provision
- Understanding of the LSC system and its population
Experience
Essential
- Making sound operational or clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision
- Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including members of the public, clinical and professional leaders
- Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities
Approach
Essential
- Encourage and test new ways of working together, collaborating and learning from each other to achieve our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population
- Determination and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity in an effective way
- Commitment to improving the health, care and wellbeing of the population
Skills
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to maintain a positive and constructive profile
- Ability to influence and persuade, articulate a balanced view and encourage constructive debate with the confidence to question and challenge effectively
- Ability to demonstrate effective system leadership behaviours
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).