Job summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Education - to support the delivery of our People Strategy. This role is suitable for portfolio-style working professionals who have in-depth understanding of the workforce challenges across health and social care, and is offered on 1 day per week basis, either via a 2-year secondment or fixed term contract. We welcome applications from any clinical and care profession (e.g., nursing, midwifery, social care, therapy, pharmacy).
You will have an established professional network and be able to demonstrate the ability to influence at strategic level across professional groups in education development and new ways of working.
Main duties of the job
This role is an ideal secondment or fixed term portfolio opportunity for current SEL system leaders to provide strategic clinical/front line expertise to influence the education priorities of emerging ICS People Strategy Integrated Care Strategic Priorities for 2023-28 (selondonics.org)
This role is one of two professional/clinical lead roles that will provide strategic support to the workforce programme senior leadership team. This role will work closely with the professional lead (innovation) to support the complex delivery of the ICS People Strategy priorities.
We are particularly keen to attract interest from our front line service professionals from social care, voluntary sector, nursing, therapies, medics etc who have skills and interest in:
- Setting of strategic direction for the ICS education priorities
- Shaping the education of new ways or working, roles and pathways
- Supporting key decision-making in maximising education budgets/investments and levy;
- Networking, collaborating and influencing education across our system partners
About us
The South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark - our Places.
Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices (operating within 35 Primary Care Networks), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT. Importantly, the ICS seeks to be connected to the communities we serve (circa 1.92m residents) and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary and third sector groups and organisations in each borough. The reach of our NHS provider portfolios extends beyond the borders of the ICS, across London, the south of England and nationally for some services.
The South East London ICB is the NHS management unit of the ICS. It is accountable both to NHS England and to the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Professional/Clinical Lead will be part of the SEL ICS workforce programme team and will report into the Director of SEL ICS workforce programme with specific focus on driving education and training across system partners. The postholder will also work in conjunction with subject matter expert leadership colleagues in ICB and partner ICS organisations as needed for specific portfolio projects.
On a day-to-day basis, the post holder will:
- Provide strategic professional and clinical leadership to the Head of Education to set a portfolio of work linked to education and training ICS priorities that support improvements in workforce supply.
- Lead and influence senior level engagement with partners and education providers to agree actions linked to a newly developed education strategy for SEL.
- Highly developed skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse, interpret and compare range of information.
- Ensure evidence and analytics are secured to support, inform activities and use the information in an insightful way to identify and mitigate risks and make measurable improvements to workforce.
- To provide Line management and Professional advice and support to the SEL ICS Workforce Programme team.
- Support the work programme under newly defined education governance to support all professional groups and have oversight of the education and training budget.
- Take strategic decisions and follow up action to mitigate against risks to workforce supply by liaison and planning with regulatory bodies and ICS senior leaders in order to influence national actions and proactively support a SEL ICS response.
- Lead the design and development of new approaches to education and training delivering as required to address the People Strategy and operational response.
- Drive the overarching governance for the work programme.
- Be a key strategic contributor to the Board Assurance Framework (BAF) as professional/clinical lead for education, identifying interdependencies with other BAF risks as appropriate.
- Provide strategic professional/clinical advisory support to Director of SEL ICS Workforce Programme as needed.
- Drawing from experience and expertise from national and global academic partners including industry, ensure that the System leaders benefits from access to research programmes and other appropriate innovations.
- Agree milestones and metrics with the Joint Medical Directors for regular reporting to governance fora.
- Produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Professional/Clinical Lead will be part of the SEL ICS workforce programme team and will report into the Director of SEL ICS workforce programme with specific focus on driving education and training across system partners. The postholder will also work in conjunction with subject matter expert leadership colleagues in ICB and partner ICS organisations as needed for specific portfolio projects.
On a day-to-day basis, the post holder will:
- Provide strategic professional and clinical leadership to the Head of Education to set a portfolio of work linked to education and training ICS priorities that support improvements in workforce supply.
- Lead and influence senior level engagement with partners and education providers to agree actions linked to a newly developed education strategy for SEL.
- Highly developed skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse, interpret and compare range of information.
- Ensure evidence and analytics are secured to support, inform activities and use the information in an insightful way to identify and mitigate risks and make measurable improvements to workforce.
- To provide Line management and Professional advice and support to the SEL ICS Workforce Programme team.
- Support the work programme under newly defined education governance to support all professional groups and have oversight of the education and training budget.
- Take strategic decisions and follow up action to mitigate against risks to workforce supply by liaison and planning with regulatory bodies and ICS senior leaders in order to influence national actions and proactively support a SEL ICS response.
- Lead the design and development of new approaches to education and training delivering as required to address the People Strategy and operational response.
- Drive the overarching governance for the work programme.
- Be a key strategic contributor to the Board Assurance Framework (BAF) as professional/clinical lead for education, identifying interdependencies with other BAF risks as appropriate.
- Provide strategic professional/clinical advisory support to Director of SEL ICS Workforce Programme as needed.
- Drawing from experience and expertise from national and global academic partners including industry, ensure that the System leaders benefits from access to research programmes and other appropriate innovations.
- Agree milestones and metrics with the Joint Medical Directors for regular reporting to governance fora.
- Produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified care and/or clinical professional i.e. NMC, HCPC, social work register, GMC etc
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Postgraduate training in additional specialized areas.
- Management training and leadership training.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable
- Project Management or programme management certification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading, managing, developing, influencing and inspiring staff.
- Experience of professional Education and Training strategic or operational delivery, transformation or policy implementation.
- Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective health and care / social care/academic services as a senior manager in a large, complex multifaceted clinical academic environment including the management of staff, finances, risks and service development.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Use I.T. systems to record activity and to report on the performance of the direct report.
- Undertake the collection, processing, interpretation, reporting of information using appropriate software.
- Experience of strategic transformation and redesign initiatives.
- Substantial experience of undertaking staff appraisals, identifying professional development of staff management needs and performance issues to support key result areas.
- Significant experience of staff management.
- Substantial experience of taking a lead role in recruitment.
- Substantial experience of workforce planning in conjunction with service managers.
- Experience of working effectively with senior service managers to achieve organisational goals.
- Excellent interpersonal communication (written, oral, presentation and facilitation) networking and negotiating skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets.
Partnership Working/ Leadership/ Management
Essential
- Champions the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the organisation.
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up.
- Professional and approachable manner.
- Able to demonstrate personal leadership achievement and skills
- Ability to motivate staff and support staff and team development.
- Open to ongoing evaluation, feedback and supervision.
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently.
- Strong time management skills.
- Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact.
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/ sector/ professional boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for the one workforce and community.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified care and/or clinical professional i.e. NMC, HCPC, social work register, GMC etc
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Postgraduate training in additional specialized areas.
- Management training and leadership training.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable
- Project Management or programme management certification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading, managing, developing, influencing and inspiring staff.
- Experience of professional Education and Training strategic or operational delivery, transformation or policy implementation.
- Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective health and care / social care/academic services as a senior manager in a large, complex multifaceted clinical academic environment including the management of staff, finances, risks and service development.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
- Use I.T. systems to record activity and to report on the performance of the direct report.
- Undertake the collection, processing, interpretation, reporting of information using appropriate software.
- Experience of strategic transformation and redesign initiatives.
- Substantial experience of undertaking staff appraisals, identifying professional development of staff management needs and performance issues to support key result areas.
- Significant experience of staff management.
- Substantial experience of taking a lead role in recruitment.
- Substantial experience of workforce planning in conjunction with service managers.
- Experience of working effectively with senior service managers to achieve organisational goals.
- Excellent interpersonal communication (written, oral, presentation and facilitation) networking and negotiating skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets.
Partnership Working/ Leadership/ Management
Essential
- Champions the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion both within and outside of the organisation.
- Provide effective, inclusive and compassionate leadership, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up.
- Professional and approachable manner.
- Able to demonstrate personal leadership achievement and skills
- Ability to motivate staff and support staff and team development.
- Open to ongoing evaluation, feedback and supervision.
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work as part of a team or independently.
- Strong time management skills.
- Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact.
- Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/ sector/ professional boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for the one workforce and community.
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).
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).
