Macmillan Palliative and End of Life Care Transformation Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

As the Systems Macmillan Transformation Lead the post holder will work alongside the ICBs PEoLC Programme Team to improve the outcomes for patients and the sustainability of PEoLC and:

• Develop an understanding of the local assets, needs, and inequalities, to support the development of PEOLC strategic plans using the Ambitions Self-Assessment Framework.
• Raise the profile of PEOLC across the local policy and broader strategic agendas.
• Support the statutory core responsibility of ICB's to ensure that system wide accessible high quality, safe palliative and end of life care, tailored to the needs of the individual (Health and Care act 2022) is available.
• Provide an innovative, ambitious, and solution-focussed approach to unblocking barriers and leading the transformation of services to meet the individual needs of patients and address inequalities in care provision.
• Support the strategic direction of new and widened collaborative opportunities to transform and develop of sustainable PEOLC services.
• Develop and support local, regional and national networks to share PEoLC best practice and learn from others' successes.
• Empower people with lived experience and local subject matter experts to co-produce local services for local people.
• Assist Macmillan in gaining a greater insight into present and future PEoLC need and to ensure alignment with the Partnership teams and their priorities.
• The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate
• The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
• This job description and person specification are only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
• The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation

Key Working Relationships

• The post holder will be required to communicate and provide highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Present highly complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.
• Commit to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of contentious issues.
• Nurture key relationships and maintain System wide PEoLC networks internally and externally, including regional and national networks.
• Maintain key relationships with regional Macmillan Transformation Leads, PEoLC SCN and Macmillan national Transformation Lead
• Support collaborative working across Norfolk and Waveney Trusts.
• Assist with public relations and marketing activities.
• Assist with Freedom of Information requests, keep under review the framework and in accordance with the legislation.
• Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of any change.

For further details of this role, including main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist areas.
• Extensive knowledge from a variety of specialist subject areas, including PEoLC Policy, NHS Long Term Plan, and the PEoLC Ambitions

Other

Essential

• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values

Training

Essential

• Member of relevant professional body

Ability

Essential

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales Interpreting national policy for implementation

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board

Address

County Hall

Martineau Lane

Norwich

NR1 2DH

Employer's website

https://improvinglivesnw.org.uk/about-us/our-nhs-integrated-care-board-icb/ (Opens in a new tab)