Assistant Director of Complex Care (Professional Lead: CHC)

Job summary

The Assistant Director of Complex Care (Professional Lead- Continuing Healthcare) - is a pivotal role in ensuring our clinical teams are supported to deliver excellence in CHC practice.

The post holder will be a registered clinician, who is an expert in Continuing Healthcare and all associated legislation. The successful applicant will have extensive experience in leading Continuing Healthcare teams at band C or above.

The post holder will lead the development of our CHC service to ensure we meet national targets whilst delivering creative solutions, which are high quality and value for money.

This role is ideally suited to an individual who has the ambition, drive, and courage to transform the health care system, ensuring we meet the needs of our residents, through delivering the aims of our organisation.

The role provides an amazing opportunity for individuals who are committed to developing their career to the next level.

Please note that priority will be given to NCL ICB employees who are affected by change.

Main duties of the job

The overall purpose of the role is to:

o Provide strategic, clinical, and operational oversight and management of all aspects of Continuing Healthcare.

o Deliver all financial and performance targets within a safe clinical environment

o Collaborate with partners and key stakeholders across NCL and beyond, in relation to delivering effective discharge pathways and admission avoidance

o Provide strategic leadership, and influence the wider care market agenda

o Ensure professional standards of practice are of a high quality, and in line with the National Framework.

o Provide expert advice and senior leadership for complex cases, which have the potential to place the organisation at risk.

About us

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington.As an ICB, we're focused on:o improving outcomes in population health and healthcareo tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and accesso enhancing productivity and value for moneyo helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.It is an exciting time to be joining NCL ICB - we have commenced an organisational change programme to redesign the structure of the organisation and the way that we work tobetter meet the needs of our population, our people, our system, and our partners. As part of the organisational change programme, we want to re-launch and re-energise the organisation, embed new ways of working and building the capabilities we need to create a thriving organisational culture.