Job summary
The Lancashire and South Integrated Care Board(ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the eight clinical commissioning groups across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets the same outcomes from treatment. We also oversee how money is spent and make sure health services work well and are of high quality.
Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB is a highly complex organisation serving a population of over 1.8 million people. From a demographic perspective, there are some real challenges within Lancashire and South Cumbria with nearly a third of our residents living in some of the most deprived areas across England.
This role will provide clinical and transformational leadership to the Clinical and Care Professional (CCP) network for the Informatics and Digital portfolio across the Integrated Care Board (ICB), and to the other Clinical & Care Professional Leads across the range of portfolio areas. They will attend the Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) Clinical and Care Professional Assembly, ensuring the link between the system, place and delivery of digital and informatics development within the ICB strategy.
Main duties of the job
Take responsibility and accountability alongside the ICB Chief Digital Officer and Digital Senior Leadership Team for the strategic direction of Digital and Data technology design, implementation, and delivery.
Provide high quality clinical and Digital leadership across the organisation in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Provide responsibility and accountability for the ICB clinical safety process as an enabler for safe and effective care.
Serve as a Digital and Data / Clinical informatics advisor to the ICB's Chief Medical Officer and other senior Clinical leaders.
Act as a champion for Digital by promoting innovation and the development of a Digital and Data culture by identifying and sharing opportunities for improvements in care work practices that result from digitally enabled clinical initiatives.
Ensure that all key stakeholders are consulted in the design, delivery, and evaluation of Digital and Data systems, including patients, carers, clinicians, technical and programme teams and best practice groups.
Ensure that proposed service redesigns will be effective and safe in improving clinical practice and patient care outcomes, whilst adhering to clinical, nursing and care professional and Digital standard
Along with the CNIO, oversee the development of a benefits realisation framework for all clinical systems ensuring that there is a robust process in place to track the impact of the deployment of technologies on clinical outcomes.
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 - Chief Clinical Informatics Officer LSC ICB (CCIO).
5 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 - Chief Clinical Informatics Officer LSC ICB (CCIO).
5 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
- Registration with a statutory body such as GMC, NMC or one overseen by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Current good standing registration with relevant professional body, maintenance of all revalidation requirements as necessary, compliance to the Seven Principles of Public Life.
- Leadership Qualification or evidence of recent professional development (within the last three years).
- Management Qualification or evidence of recent professional development (within the last three years).
Desirable
- Member or Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) or associated professional body.
- Project Management training i.e., Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent
- Post graduate degree in Leadership and Management
- Postgraduate qualification in digital/informatics related discipline
- Digital Academy Graduate
Experience
Essential
- Senior clinical experience as a Consultant, Nurse Director/Assoc. Director, Principal in General Practice or equivalent, with a track record of inclusive clinical leadership and strategic vision.
- Senior management experience and competencies, including the development of business and workforce plans in line with service requirements, and performance management of staff.
- Wide ranging knowledge and experience of using information and analytics, and harnessing technology to drive service improvement, access to services and patient empowerment across health and social care.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and implementing information and data strategies.
- Experience of agile project management methods.
Skills
Essential
- Leadership skills: excellent leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse motivate and involve individuals and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Track record of effectively identifying and handling priorities, meeting challenging deadlines and delivering under pressure.
- Demonstrate an understanding of a range of visualisations used to present data analyses and information.
- Ability to understand complex and technical detail and data and have strong analytical skills in order to identify trends and impact.
- Setting up governance structures to ensure clear accountability and management/ownership of risk.
- Demonstrates how data quality affects analysis, and resulting clinical and healthcare insights, and how important it is to improve to derive maximum potential from its utilisation.
- Understands the importance of data linkage, record linkage methods and the relevant strengths and limitations to be able to conduct or review linked data analysis.
- Understands the qualities of a system/technology and the trade-off between them when developing/deploying them (e.g., maintainability, scalability, performance, recovery).
Desirable
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the range of technology for transmitting information (e.g., messaging between systems) and clinical standards (e.g., standards for structuring clinical information) for information needed to support the creation of interoperable systems.
Other
Essential
- Strategic and business planning: able to think and plan strategically, tactically, and creatively, to gain agreement to relevant plans and to implement plans through service delivery.
- Ability to promote equality of opportunity and confidentiality for service users and staff. Appropriate changes that will be required to be undertaken.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with a statutory body such as GMC, NMC or one overseen by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Current good standing registration with relevant professional body, maintenance of all revalidation requirements as necessary, compliance to the Seven Principles of Public Life.
- Leadership Qualification or evidence of recent professional development (within the last three years).
- Management Qualification or evidence of recent professional development (within the last three years).
Desirable
- Member or Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) or associated professional body.
- Project Management training i.e., Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent
- Post graduate degree in Leadership and Management
- Postgraduate qualification in digital/informatics related discipline
- Digital Academy Graduate
Experience
Essential
- Senior clinical experience as a Consultant, Nurse Director/Assoc. Director, Principal in General Practice or equivalent, with a track record of inclusive clinical leadership and strategic vision.
- Senior management experience and competencies, including the development of business and workforce plans in line with service requirements, and performance management of staff.
- Wide ranging knowledge and experience of using information and analytics, and harnessing technology to drive service improvement, access to services and patient empowerment across health and social care.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and implementing information and data strategies.
- Experience of agile project management methods.
Skills
Essential
- Leadership skills: excellent leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse motivate and involve individuals and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Track record of effectively identifying and handling priorities, meeting challenging deadlines and delivering under pressure.
- Demonstrate an understanding of a range of visualisations used to present data analyses and information.
- Ability to understand complex and technical detail and data and have strong analytical skills in order to identify trends and impact.
- Setting up governance structures to ensure clear accountability and management/ownership of risk.
- Demonstrates how data quality affects analysis, and resulting clinical and healthcare insights, and how important it is to improve to derive maximum potential from its utilisation.
- Understands the importance of data linkage, record linkage methods and the relevant strengths and limitations to be able to conduct or review linked data analysis.
- Understands the qualities of a system/technology and the trade-off between them when developing/deploying them (e.g., maintainability, scalability, performance, recovery).
Desirable
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the range of technology for transmitting information (e.g., messaging between systems) and clinical standards (e.g., standards for structuring clinical information) for information needed to support the creation of interoperable systems.
Other
Essential
- Strategic and business planning: able to think and plan strategically, tactically, and creatively, to gain agreement to relevant plans and to implement plans through service delivery.
- Ability to promote equality of opportunity and confidentiality for service users and staff. Appropriate changes that will be required to be undertaken.
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).