Associate Professional Director

Job description

Job responsibilities

Six Associate Professional Director roles are available, covering the following portfolio areas. They will all work to the same generic job description; Applicants are invited to indicate which role they are applying for in. The scope of each role is summarised below and is aligned to the ICB Joint Forward Plan; further clarification on scope can be obtained through pre-interview meetings.

Children and Young People and Maternity

Programme Director/Lead: Garry Joyce, CYP (Deputy Director Transformation, garry.joyce@snee.nhs.uk), Teri Gavin-Jones (Clinical Lead Midwife, teri.gavin-jones@snee.nhs.uk )

The APD for CYP and Maternity will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to achieve the Start Well outcome: Giving children and young people the best start in life, and the consequent priorities to achieve this outcome as outlined with the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2023-2028). The post will focus upon the following areas of work:

Reducing Term admissions to neonatal care

Preterm prevention

Improving maternity outcomes

Personalisation of care and treatment

Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS)

Neuro Developmental Disorders (NDD)

Special Education Needs (SEND)

Acute and community paediatrics

Core 20 Plus 5 for adults and CYP (particularly related to asthma, diabetes and epilepsy)

Cancer

Programme Director: Nerinda Evans (Deputy Director Transformation, nerinda.evans@snee.nhs.uk)

The APD for Cancer will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to achieve the Stay Well outcome: Supporting children, young people and adults with health or care concerns to access support and maintain healthy, productive and fulfilling lives and the consequent priorities to achieve this outcome as outlined with the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2023-2028). The post will focus upon the following areas of work:

Early Diagnosis of Cancer

Faster diagnosis of Cancer

Personalised support for those with Cancer

Inclusion, Inequalities and Long Term Conditions

Programme Director/SRO: Nerinda Evans, Long Term Conditions (Deputy Director Transformation, nerinda.evans@snee.nhs.uk), Laura Taylor Green, Inequalities (Alliance Director, laura.taylor-green@snee.nhs.uk)

The APD for Inclusion, Inequalities and Long Term Conditions will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to achieve the Stay Well outcome: Supporting adults with health or care concerns to access support and maintain healthy, productive and fulfilling lives, and the consequent priorities to achieve this outcome as outlined with the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2023-2028). The ICB focusses upon the following LTC areas of work, although the postholder would be invited to explore new areas of work dependent on variation in outcome and aligned to stakeholder priorities:

Respiratory

CVD

Diabetes

Stroke

Neurological Rehabilitation

Weight Management

Aligned to the Inequalities Committee, the postholder will:

Work with clinicians and professionals to build knowledge, including equipping colleagues with health inequalities knowledge and how it links to their specific role.

Be mindful of the impact of the social determinants of health and how they affect access, and their role in patient experience in patient-facing encounters given the impact of peoples experience on their outcomes.

Influence policy across the system to ensure we have the right conditions to tackle health inequalities.

End of Life and Frailty

Programme SRO: Judi Newman (CEO St Elizabeths Hospice, Chair SNEE End of Life Committee, judi.newman@stelizabethhospice.org.uk); Alliance Directors

The APD for End of Life and Frailty will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to achieve the Age Well and Die Well outcomes: Supporting people to live safely and independently as they grow older and Giving individuals nearing end of life choice around their care, and the consequent priorities to achieve this outcome as outlined with the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2023-2028).

The SNEE End of Life workstream is delivered at place as a system-wide approach, committed to the six National Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care promoting patient-centred coordinated care. The priority for the End of Life Group is to improve early identification of those in the last year of life, enabling an increase in advance care planning and the associated improvements in care outcomes. The workstream includes the improvement of bereavement services and encouraging greater cultural confidence in talking about death and dying through the Compassionate Communities movement.

Frailty improvement is also delivered across at place in each of our Alliances, and work is aligned to the Age Well domain. Whilst separate from End of Life care, the post holder will optimise the links between end of life and frailty workstreams to facilitate seamless pathways for people in their last years of life.

Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) and Elective

Programme SRO: Paul Gibara (Director of Performance Improvement, paul.gibara@snee.nhs.uk)

The APD for UEC and Elective will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to achieve the Stay Well outcomes: Supporting adults with health or care concerns to access support and maintain healthy, productive and fulfilling lives, and the consequent priorities to achieve this outcome as outlined with the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2023-2028). Key priorities for the UEC and elective programmes include:

Improving access to diagnostics

Planned surgery and treatment when people need it, in the place of their choice

Best experience of planned care, reducing health inequalities and preventing clinical harm

People are signposted to the most appropriate service for their needs every time

People in need receive timely emergency care aligned with best practice

People with urgent and minor ailments/illnesses are managed outside of the ED

Strengthen and improve discharge processes

Mental Health

Programme Director: Eugene Staunton (Deputy Director of Transformation, eugene.staunton@snee.nhs.uk)

The APD for Mental Health will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to achieve the Feel Well outcome: Supporting the mental wellbeing of our population and the consequent priorities to achieve this outcome as outlined with the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2023-2028). The post will focus upon the following areas of work:

Community Adults Mental Health (including Serious Mental Illness and Talking Therapies)

Mental Health Crisis (including all aspects of our all age crisis model)

Specialist Mental Health (including perinatal services, eating disorders, early intervention in psychosis)

Ongoing development of our county based MH collaboratives

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Health, care, local government and VCFSE landscape.
• Social determinants of health.
• Current evidence and thinking on practices which reduce health inequality, improve patient access, safety and ensure organisations are well led.
• Regulatory matters, including a working knowledge of CQC inspections and the role of NHS England.
• Health and care financial planning and budgeting at a directorate or departmental level.
• Leadership knowledge acquired through training, plus further knowledge in area of practice.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Personal commitment to the values of SNEE ICS.
• Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
• Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
• Committed to continuing professional development in yourself and others

Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate Degree level qualification in a health or care professional subject.
• Currently registered without restriction with the General Medical Council (GMC), General Dental Council (GDC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or an equivalent professional regulatory body.

Experience

Essential

• Currently working at a senior level in a recognised health or care profession.
• Managing the day to day running of a health or care professional team, providing strong local leadership and developing leadership capacity within the team members, ideally across organisational boundaries.
• Managing sensitive situations with patients, families, or carers and/or with wider advocating agencies.
• Effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Providing mentorship and professional development through leadership with demonstrable outcomes.
• Leading and delivering change and strategy development across organisational boundaries in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
• Developing and maintaining a safety culture.

Skills

Essential

• Exceptional communication which creates confidence, collaboration, and partnership.
• Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; evidence of use of higher level thinking to resolve wicked issues.
• Ability to create and deliver a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action.
• Analytical rigour.
• Analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
• Sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive.
• Ability to successfully manage situations with stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes, often dealing with complex and conflicting issues.
• Effective and confident external communications skills.

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 Suffolk and North East Essex ICB

Address

Endeavour House

8 Russell Road

Ipswich

Suffolk

IP1 2BX

Employer's website

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