Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Blackpool

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.

Contacts and relationships

Positively engage with external agencies and act as advocate for the PBP and partner organisations

Actively look for potential opportunities with key contacts to address health inequalities, improve population health and improve overall service delivery and performance

Work with other clinical programme place- based clinical and care leads, including, but not limited to, Blackpools clinical and care professional leads for Mental Health, Cancer, Quality and Digital as well as programme system clinical and care leads, when necessary, to support delivery of improvements.

To provide expertise and leadership to population health and health inequalities at place, working in alignment with and under the direction of the Associate Medical Director for Population Health, including:

o supporting the Population Health Place Team

o engaging with partner organisations and communities regarding health inequalities and population health and providing enabling support, leadership and assistance as required

o Leading a network of PCN health inequality Clinical Leads at place, ensuring action to understand health inequalities and embed population health approaches in every neighbourhood

Connect and build trust with colleagues and patients across traditional boundaries - developing strong networks and relationships that work in service of patients over organisations, places or professional groups

Make sound operational and clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision

Listen with compassion to the needs, hopes and challenges of those they work with and serve, using this understanding to actively involve others in the decisions that affect their lives

Support the Place based leaders to gather, verify and assess all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of the situation.

Service delivery and outcomes

Ensure that the needs of the population, service users and their carers are at the core of the way PBP delivers services, recognising and tackling inequalities of access and outcome

Catalyse and embed ways to test and share new and innovative ideas and approaches that improve how we design and deliver care to our patients and population

Ensure that service delivery is person centred, outcomes focused and protective of individual service users dignity

Support service managers to ensure that the service meets all relevant quality standards, specifically CQC, ICB and all relevant NICE guidelines

Support the effective and efficient deployment of resources to achieve agreed outcomes and targets

Work as a team member developing and maintaining effective working relationships

Keep up to date with relevant policies and procedures

Creativity and innovation

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

Seek out and embrace different ideas, perspectives and challenges being able to adapt and change course by continually learning from others around them.

Takes an innovative and creative approach to solving problems

Considers innovation in the workplace an ongoing responsibility and welcomes change as an integral part of both individual and organisation development

Acts as a positive role model for innovation and a facilitator for change

Enables PBP to support the ICB ambition to help the NHS to provide broader social and economic development

Planning and organising

Develops practical and realistic plans to achieve outcomes/objectives

Considers the wider implications with regards to skills, resources in achieving plans/ outcomes/objectives

Ensures appropriate resources and levels of capability to deliver priorities as well as delivering value for money

Takes responsibility for delivery of plans, outcomes and objectives which may involve coordinating and organising others

Ensures that all locally developed plans, and the enactment of ICP strategic plans locally, are crafted in such a way as to meet local population health needs, that plans do not unintentionally widen access or outcome inequalities and that plans are both evidence based and have appropriate assurance metrics attached to them.

Communication

Actively contribute to a culture of positive communication

Support the Place based team to deliver presentations and training internally to staff and externally to partners/ agencies, where appropriate

Support the Place based team with CQC inspections, service developments and other relevant tasks

Financial Management

Effectively manage resources within your control.

Personal development

Continually develop own clinical knowledge and practise with respect to service speciality

Maintain professional registration (e.g. GMC, NMC, etc.)

Readiness to continue personal development in accessing opportunities to listen to the voices of lived experience and continually deepen understanding of the barriers to health for those facing the great inequalities

Equality and Diversity

Act in ways that actively promote equity and value diversity

Help to develop and maintain an organisational culture that supports equity and diversity.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional or social worker in a LSC partner organisation.
• Qualification or evidence of special interest in lead area or equivalent.

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 these impact people's outcomes and experience of health and care provision within the place.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within Blackpool as part of the LSC health and care system.
• Proven ability to engage people by the way they communicate and interact, including residents, patients and service users, their carers, and clinical and professional leaders.
• Working across boundaries and collaborative working, including with communities.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)

Address

County Hall (This is the head office, however the role is working within the Blackpool patch)

Preston

PR1 8XJ

Employer's website

https://www.lancashireandsouthcumbria.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)