Clinical Steward Place Lead - North

Job summary

Stewardship is a collaborative and strategic approach to healthcare leadership that emphasises shared responsibility for optimising resources, improving population health outcomes, and tackling health inequalities. This model fosters integration and innovation by aligning care delivery with system-wide goals, ensuring a patient-centred and value-based approach.

As a steward, the individual is expected to embody these principles by:

Leading collaboratively: Driving integration across sectors and fostering collective accountability by convening multi-agency stakeholders to address shared challenges. Stewards should actively lead discussions, mediate between parties, and create unified action plans.

Championing data-driven insights: Using analytics and evidence to inform clinical and operational decisions that enhance patient care and reduce disparities. Examples include developing targeted interventions using population health data or designing risk stratification tools.

Engaging with stakeholders: Building and maintaining robust relationships across health and care systems to ensure alignment with shared objectives and priorities. This involves regular communication with patient groups, clinical leads, and external agencies.

Main duties of the job

The Place Steward provides clinical and care professional leadership within their locality, working closely with their local place board chair, and reporting to the Associate Director of their place / Head of Place Development, Partnerships and Planning. They will provide a strong clinical voice at Place Board and UEC Alliance level to support the implementation of the ICB's clinical strategy and to ensure decisions reflect local needs and priorities.

They will also provide a key link to clinical and care professionals working within their place for example through membership of the System Interface Group.

The Place Steward will provide clinical leadership to support the development of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs), supporting the local priorities and delivering the Fuller Stocktake recommendations within their place. With the rest of the place team, by working collaboratively with practices, PCNs, and system partners, the Place Steward aligns place-based initiatives with the ICS strategy, delivering integrated, high-quality, and equitable care.

The Place Steward will also champion the concept of place across the ICS, driving devolution of decision making about local services and left shift wherever appropriate.

About us

Health and care services in Norfolk and Waveney are working closely together to further improve services and provide more joined-up care for local people. In Norfolk and Waveney, we have already achieved a lot by working in partnership to improve health and care outcomes. These changes have been made possible by different organisations - NHS hospitals, GPs, mental health and community health services, local councils, care homes and social workers, voluntary and community organisations and others - joining forces to agree and plan for local people's needs.

Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) includes a statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), and an Integrated Care Board (ICB) called NHS Norfolk and Waveney. This partnership and organisation dedicated to making sure that organisations work together for the benefit of our residents, staff and communities is an important step change, helping to create positive differences to local people and joining up health and social care. This is the culmination of many years of effort to build partnership working across the NHS, local authorities, the third sector and patient groups.