Job summary
Clinical leadership and expertise are identified as essential for delivering the North West London Integrated Care System vision and objectives. The clinical leadership works together across the Integrated Care System to focus on service improvement, service redesign and the development of care pathways from primary care through to secondary care and community-based services.
NHS NWL ICB clinical leadership team aims to embed the clinical voice at the heart of the ICBs functions for strategic planning, supporting optimal delivery and assurance, by ensuring that there is a strong clinical focus and evidenced based care that underpins strategy development as well as providing focused clinical leadership to strengthen the ICBs delivery of better health outcomes, while optimising the use of resources by integrating clinical and care professionals in decision-making at every level of the ICS.
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer will have an influential role within the portfolio of the ICB Chief Medical Officer. The post holder(s) will work as part of a senior leadership team, to provide senior strategic, visible, clinical and professional leadership across the system. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, they will be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, other partners and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequality.
Main duties of the job
This role requires strong, strategic leadership skills, critical reasoning, and numeracy, with the experience of stewardship of significant public funds, good governance and delivering impactful public outcomes.
The ideal candidate will bring with them a track record of leading transformational change, the ability to establish a stakeholder-led culture across the system, build trusted partnerships which drive change and improvements in care, have great personal integrity and champion diversity, inclusion, and equality of opportunity for all.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability.
Interview date is 11 June 2024
Please submit your application form via NHS Jobs. Ensure that the supporting statement addresses the criteria set out in the person specification, using examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential requirements.
About us
NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.
The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care.
Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them take greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.
To do this we will:
improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
reduce inequalities in health outcomes, experience, and access
enhance productivity and better value for money
support broader social and economic development within our area.
Were proud of our staff and the contribution they make and are committed to developing their knowledge and skills in a supportive, inclusive, and values-led organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer will have an influential role within the portfolio of the ICB Chief Medical Officer. The post holder(s) will work as part of a senior leadership team, to provide senior strategic, visible, clinical and professional leadership across the system. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, they will be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, other partners and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequality.
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer is responsible for helping to deliver the Chief Medical Officer Directorates extensive portfolio. This will include guiding the Chief Medical Officer Directorate in strategic, delivery and assurance decision making, Board and committee level deputisation and chairing relevant meetings. Responsibilities include:
Providing visible professional medical leadership across the ICB and ICS partnership organisations.
Effective management of a cohort of ICB clinical leaders.
Think and act strategically about service development needs.
Setting clinical strategy that delivers long-term transformation for improved population health outcomes, access and patient experience through system collaboration and the integration of services.
Driving high quality, sustainable outcomes through the systematic design, allocation and use of resources.
Driving the reduction health inequalities and the variation of health outcomes experienced by residents across NWL by triangulating business intelligence, community insights and research to inform strategies for socially effective interventions.
Support and coordinate the clinical pathway work between central and borough clinical leads.
Build trusted relationships with partners and communities.
Being an important conduit of communication between the Chief Medical Officer Directorate and the wider ICB and ICS partnership organisations.
Engaging and developing the clinical leadership through a community of practice and create an environment for innovation and creativity to drive continuous improvement and deliver a high performing, agile and collaborative culture.
Developing strategic clinical leadership workforce planning through talent management, learning organisations, group work, workforce design, succession planning, diversity and inclusion.
Providing support to the Director of Nursing in matters relating to improving quality of care and patient safety.
Functional Responsibilities:
Analytical
Awareness of risks to the programme/portfolio and ensure that escalation processes are followed.
Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.
Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information.
Communications and Engagement
Support co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience.
Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders.
Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers.
Interface with clinical leads across the sector.
Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the programme team, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.
Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters.
Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
Support the relevant NWL ICB programmes in the preparation of correspondence and papers.
General Financial and Physical Resources
Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.
Continually strive for delivering project/function outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency
Contribute to the financial delivery of the project ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time.
Information Management
Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, to enhance decision making processes.
Lead on development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of new information systems/databases as required.
Research and Development
Actively lead and contributes to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of variation.
Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment.
Ensuring there are processes in place for spreading and sharing learning and outcomes.
Work with local academic organisations, drawing on their expertise and resource to support service development and evaluation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer will have an influential role within the portfolio of the ICB Chief Medical Officer. The post holder(s) will work as part of a senior leadership team, to provide senior strategic, visible, clinical and professional leadership across the system. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, they will be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, other partners and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequality.
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer is responsible for helping to deliver the Chief Medical Officer Directorates extensive portfolio. This will include guiding the Chief Medical Officer Directorate in strategic, delivery and assurance decision making, Board and committee level deputisation and chairing relevant meetings. Responsibilities include:
Providing visible professional medical leadership across the ICB and ICS partnership organisations.
Effective management of a cohort of ICB clinical leaders.
Think and act strategically about service development needs.
Setting clinical strategy that delivers long-term transformation for improved population health outcomes, access and patient experience through system collaboration and the integration of services.
Driving high quality, sustainable outcomes through the systematic design, allocation and use of resources.
Driving the reduction health inequalities and the variation of health outcomes experienced by residents across NWL by triangulating business intelligence, community insights and research to inform strategies for socially effective interventions.
Support and coordinate the clinical pathway work between central and borough clinical leads.
Build trusted relationships with partners and communities.
Being an important conduit of communication between the Chief Medical Officer Directorate and the wider ICB and ICS partnership organisations.
Engaging and developing the clinical leadership through a community of practice and create an environment for innovation and creativity to drive continuous improvement and deliver a high performing, agile and collaborative culture.
Developing strategic clinical leadership workforce planning through talent management, learning organisations, group work, workforce design, succession planning, diversity and inclusion.
Providing support to the Director of Nursing in matters relating to improving quality of care and patient safety.
Functional Responsibilities:
Analytical
Awareness of risks to the programme/portfolio and ensure that escalation processes are followed.
Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.
Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information.
Communications and Engagement
Support co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience.
Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders.
Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers.
Interface with clinical leads across the sector.
Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the programme team, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff.
Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters.
Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.
Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
Support the relevant NWL ICB programmes in the preparation of correspondence and papers.
General Financial and Physical Resources
Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.
Continually strive for delivering project/function outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency
Contribute to the financial delivery of the project ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time.
Information Management
Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, to enhance decision making processes.
Lead on development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of new information systems/databases as required.
Research and Development
Actively lead and contributes to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of variation.
Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment.
Ensuring there are processes in place for spreading and sharing learning and outcomes.
Work with local academic organisations, drawing on their expertise and resource to support service development and evaluation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Registration with GMC without any conditions or restrictions on licence to practise
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of senior clinical leadership at service, divisional or borough level for numerous years
- Proven track record of delivery of significant clinical change programmes at speciality of divisional or borough level
- Experience of working with patient groups and wider external stakeholders
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others.
- Judgement: having the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities.
- Be innovative and responsive to change.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Registration with GMC without any conditions or restrictions on licence to practise
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of senior clinical leadership at service, divisional or borough level for numerous years
- Proven track record of delivery of significant clinical change programmes at speciality of divisional or borough level
- Experience of working with patient groups and wider external stakeholders
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others.
- Judgement: having the ability to understand and interpret clinical decisions for others and make informed judgements concerning clinical priorities.
- Be innovative and responsive to change.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
