Clinical Steward for Adult Mental Health

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

This role provides essential clinical leadership for mental health within the Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) to strengthen relationships between primary and secondary care, support clinical conversations, and foster collaborative forums. The postholder will provide system leadership in adult and older adult mental health, working collaboratively across primary and secondary care to drive integration and deliver key priorities, including the NHS Long Term Plan and Core20PLUS5 framework

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.