Job summary
The full job title is - Clinical and Care Professional Adult Continuing Health Care, Learning Disabilities & Autism, and Community Services Work ICB Lead.
Please note, the salary will be based on your current salary.
This role will provide leadership to the clinical and care professional network for [portfolio name] 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 representative on the Lancashire and South Cumbria Clinical and Care Professional Assembly, ensuring the delivery of an increased awareness of cancer prevention and care in line with national initiatives at system level.
The Clinical and Care Professional Adult CHC, LD&A and Community Services Work ICB Lead will engage partners from across health and social care, population health, and wider Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector (VCSFE) to identify opportunities for improvement and work with colleagues to jointly develop system-level responses to challenges, risks and issues. They will work with Clinical and Care Professionals and other stakeholders across the system to ensure developments meet the needs of the Place, System and support the ICB strategic direction.
Main duties of the job
Create reports that reflect progress against agreed areas of focus and identifies ongoing areas for development or investment.
Work with the senior leaders across operations and clinical services to ensure that health and care services collaborate actively and constructively with colleagues in the ICS - Local Authorities and other providers to ensure seamless and responsive local services for individuals with learning disability and/or autism. This collaboration also includes Health Education England and Public Health England.
The Lead will work collaboratively with other Clinical, Service and Corporate Directors to ensure the effective communication and engagement in respect of the development and quality assurance of services for autistic people including their mental health needs.
Help identify opportunities to make mainstream NHS services (e.g., GP Practices or Community Diagnostic Hubs) more accessible for CHC, LD&A and Community Services patients within their ICS.
The Lead will support the joining up of strategic planning and activity for Adults under CHC, LD&A and Community Services Work.
Link to other working groups and initiatives both within the ICB and in private care provision that focus on Adult CHC, LD&A and Community Care
Support the LeDeR agenda and supporting the system to learn from practice and embed improvements / changes required.
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 Adult Continuing Health Care, Learning Disabilities & Autism, and Community Services Work 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 Adult Continuing Health Care, Learning Disabilities & Autism, and Community Services Work 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 principles of promoting equality and respecting diversity
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 principles of promoting equality and respecting diversity
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).