Delegated Services Programme Support Lead

Job summary

In April 2025, the North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB), along with the other ICBs in London and in other regions across England will take on responsibilities for a wide range of Specialised Services. This follows on from the successful delegation of Dental, Optometry and Community Pharmacy Services and the fact that some other regions have already taken on delegation from April 2024.

Delegation represents a significant increase in the responsibilities for the ICB and an exciting challenge to join up pathways, improve outcomes and coordinate the management of demand driven by our system clinical strategy for specialised services which is aligned to our overall Population Health & Integrated Care Strategy.

The Delegated Services Programme Support Lead will support the Head of the Delegated Services Programme and the relevant Assistant Director to effectively plan and manage the delegation of services to the ICB, identifying and mitigating risks associated with transition and managing on-going improvements pre and post delegation including collaboratively integrating pathways. The postholder will also be required to manage Dental and Community Optometry services directly and to work in a matrix manner with Primary Care with respect to Community Pharmacy as required to fulfil the objectives of the role and will have strategic leadership responsibility for the delivery of the Delegated Services function described above.

Main duties of the job

The Programme Support Lead will:

• Support the Transformation Programme Managers to deliver transformation programme plans, maintaining relevant risk registers and updating programme plans.
• Support the NCL Delegated Services Clinical Lead to align the clinical priorities of the NCL Delegated Services Clinical Reference Group to the North London Transformation Group
• Pull together relevant data analysis to support transformation work, utilising excel/ pivot tables where necessary
• There will be scope for the role to manage their own project. Please see job description

Please see the full job description and person specification for more information.

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.