Job summary
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within its geography, improving population health, outcomes and experience for its residents across the four places.
We are seeking a Mental Health Lead for Blackburn with Darwen Place who will provide leadership to our work on mental health pathways, ensuring we meet the needs of our residents and support the ICB's strategic direction. You will use data to identify key areas of focus for Blackburn with Darwen, participate in developing programmes of education for local clinicians, increase awareness of new or evolving clinical guidance, and support the design and implementation of new ways of working across all partners, including the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector.
You will also work with the Mental Health Lead for the ICB offering the opportunity to share and learn about innovative and successful practice across our four places.
Main duties of the job
This role will provide Mental Health leadership for the clinical and care professional network for the Blackburn with Darwen Place Based partnership (PBP), and to the other Clinical & Care Professional Leads and Directors within the PBP across the range of portfolio areas.
The Clinical and Care Professional Mental Health PBP Lead will lead on overseeing quality of mental health services within the PBP, including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across the PBP to improve quality of care and outcomes. They will ensure that there are effective mechanisms for anticipating, identifying, and responding to key clinical risks that could impact on the successful delivery of the strategy in their PBP. This will include engaging with system leaders from across the PBP to drive innovation, quality improvement, patient safety and population health outcomes.
As the focus of the role is Mental Health, it will involve working with clinical leads across Lancashire & South Cumbria (LCS) ICB, including representing Blackpool PBP at relevant forums, identifying issues of concern and sharing improvements and ensuring connectivity to existing Place-based work programmes.
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.
Blackburn with Darwen
Residents living in Blackburn with Darwen face a number of challenges in their health and wellbeing and life expectancy is lower than the national average. However, Blackburn with Darwen is a place where vibrant towns are surrounded by glorious, rolling countryside. Where a strong heritage is celebrated with an exciting new cultural scene, it is a place with an 'anything is possible' attitude, with a deep sense of community pride and with powerful partnerships as a force for good.
We are committed to putting our residents at the heart of what we do, listening to people with lived experience, understanding their needs and co-designing solutions that work best for our communities. We want to adopt innovative solutions that support our residents to stay well and our workforce to be most effective.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You should be a registered healthcare professional currently practicing in a partner organisation within Blackburn with Darwen Place. You will have exceptional communication skills and the confidence to develop working relationships across professions and sectors. Passionate about improving care and outcomes, you should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current national health and care aims and policies in relation to mental health and a good local knowledge of Blackburn with Darwen place.
Other responsibilities are likely to include:
- Working with other clinical leads to ensure service development / improvement is enabled through their work
- Ensuring that any plans are clinically informed and conducive to the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality care
- Ensuring that the needs of patients within the Place remain at the centre of change and that those processes are clinically led
- Engaging with PBP members and health and care professionals, to influence clinical practice and clinical decision making in line with best practice
- Contributing towards, and facilitating the delivery of PBP and ICB objectives and performance improvement
The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.
- Ensure that variation is reduced with an improved understanding and management of inappropriate variability in quality
- Support the delivery of the long-term plan mental health ambitions
- Advise on the development of strategies to support prevention and early intervention within the PBP
- Enhance the mental and physical health pathways to ensure equity and ensure better management and support for people with long term conditions and multiple morbidities and mental health problems and medically unexplained symptoms within the PBP.
- Work within the PBP to ensure there is more primary care mental health focused development and quality improvement.
- Promote and facilitate collective responsibility for improving whole pathways and removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within the PBP.
- Work with other PBP and ICS colleagues to oversee the quality of all health services delivered for mental health in the PBP, including implementing a safer and just culture, safer systems, and safer care.
- Ensure there is clinical input, including robust and considered challenge, into PBP decision- making at all levels.
The main duties and responsibilities described above are not exhaustive and the post holder can expect to take on other responsibilities or specific tasks as required. Further, over time it is likely the remit and requirements of the role will evolve, and the post holder will be expected to adjust their working approach and style to accommodate these. As a new post within the organisation, to reflect the above, it is expected that this job description would be reviewed regularly, by agreement, initially at 6 monthly intervals by the Clinical and Care Professional Lead, Blackburn with Darwen and the Clinical and Care Professional Mental Health ICB Lead.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You should be a registered healthcare professional currently practicing in a partner organisation within Blackburn with Darwen Place. You will have exceptional communication skills and the confidence to develop working relationships across professions and sectors. Passionate about improving care and outcomes, you should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current national health and care aims and policies in relation to mental health and a good local knowledge of Blackburn with Darwen place.
Other responsibilities are likely to include:
- Working with other clinical leads to ensure service development / improvement is enabled through their work
- Ensuring that any plans are clinically informed and conducive to the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality care
- Ensuring that the needs of patients within the Place remain at the centre of change and that those processes are clinically led
- Engaging with PBP members and health and care professionals, to influence clinical practice and clinical decision making in line with best practice
- Contributing towards, and facilitating the delivery of PBP and ICB objectives and performance improvement
The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.
- Ensure that variation is reduced with an improved understanding and management of inappropriate variability in quality
- Support the delivery of the long-term plan mental health ambitions
- Advise on the development of strategies to support prevention and early intervention within the PBP
- Enhance the mental and physical health pathways to ensure equity and ensure better management and support for people with long term conditions and multiple morbidities and mental health problems and medically unexplained symptoms within the PBP.
- Work within the PBP to ensure there is more primary care mental health focused development and quality improvement.
- Promote and facilitate collective responsibility for improving whole pathways and removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within the PBP.
- Work with other PBP and ICS colleagues to oversee the quality of all health services delivered for mental health in the PBP, including implementing a safer and just culture, safer systems, and safer care.
- Ensure there is clinical input, including robust and considered challenge, into PBP decision- making at all levels.
The main duties and responsibilities described above are not exhaustive and the post holder can expect to take on other responsibilities or specific tasks as required. Further, over time it is likely the remit and requirements of the role will evolve, and the post holder will be expected to adjust their working approach and style to accommodate these. As a new post within the organisation, to reflect the above, it is expected that this job description would be reviewed regularly, by agreement, initially at 6 monthly intervals by the Clinical and Care Professional Lead, Blackburn with Darwen and the Clinical and Care Professional Mental Health ICB Lead.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered health or care professional currently practicing in a partner organisation within Blackburn with Darwen Place
- 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 PBP
- 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
- General understanding of the LSC system and its population
- Good understanding of Blackburn with Darwen, it's population and health and care inequalities
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within Blackburn with Darwen Place as part of the LSC health and care system
- 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
- Collaborative working within communities
Approach
Essential
- Ability to enthuse and motivate others
- Commitment to principles of promoting equality and respecting diversity
- Commitment to improving the health, care and wellbeing of the population
- Determination and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity in an effective way
- 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
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
- Politically and publicly astute
- Ability to demonstrate effective system leadership behaviours
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered health or care professional currently practicing in a partner organisation within Blackburn with Darwen Place
- 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 PBP
- 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
- General understanding of the LSC system and its population
- Good understanding of Blackburn with Darwen, it's population and health and care inequalities
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within Blackburn with Darwen Place as part of the LSC health and care system
- 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
- Collaborative working within communities
Approach
Essential
- Ability to enthuse and motivate others
- Commitment to principles of promoting equality and respecting diversity
- Commitment to improving the health, care and wellbeing of the population
- Determination and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity in an effective way
- 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
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
- Politically and publicly astute
- 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
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).