Job summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the clinical and care leadership team within NCL ICB and to drive better, more joined up health and care within boroughs and neighbourhoods.
These are clinical leadership roles that reflect the need for borough-based clinical and care expertise around, and support to, transformation across Barnet and Camden with portfolios organised around life-courses: Start Well, Live Well and Age Well. We are looking to fill two Clinical Lead roles, on a secondment basis, up to 20 September 2025, within Camden and Barnet, as follows:
Camden, Live Well - 2 sessions per week
Barnet, Age Well - 2 sessions per week
Each session is 3.5 hours, and the expectation is that successful candidates will be able to commit to working these sessions across one or two days, consecutively.
Clinical leads will support local delivery in line with ICB priorities and the strengthening of local clinical and professional collaboration as we continue to develop as an ICS. Postholders will be key members of borough-based teams and will report into the borough Clinical Director and Director of Place.
Working closely with clinical and officer colleagues, postholders will be a key player in building partnerships and collaborating with providers, public health, local authority, other partners (e.g. voluntary sector) and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes, and reductions in health inequality.
Interviews will be held in January 2025
Main duties of the job
The clinical leads will provide specialist input to borough partnership priorities. As well as inspiring and motivating clinical colleagues to effect change, they will initiate, oversee and directly participate in transformational work linked to Start Well, Live Well and Age Well.
We are seeking individuals with deep knowledge and understanding of the health challenges and priorities faced across NCL boroughs, an understanding of local communities and the local health and care landscape. You will be passionate about, and have experience of, systems leadership, quality improvement, and delivering through collaboration.
About us
On 1 July 2022, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) was established. NCL ICB is part of North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS). The ICS is a partnership of organisations that have come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of ICSs:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
Our ICB strategy for population health improvement will be underpinned by quality, clinical and people strategies which set out a commitment to develop, grow and support clinical leaders from all professional backgrounds to play a central and crucial system leadership role in designing and delivering equitable, high quality person-centred care to our patients and residents. We have created a model of clinical and care professional leadership to deliver this commitment and are recruiting to several roles to set us out on our journey.
If you share our values and ambitions for people living in North Central London and have the skills and experience to drive our Clinical Leadership portfolio forward, then we would be delighted to receive your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
At a high level, Clinical Lead: Place activities are likely to include:
- Leading the development and delivery of local population health improvement initiatives
- Promoting and facilitating pathway improvement and redesign, while removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within boroughs
- Supporting oversight and management of service quality at place level, by sharing intelligence and working with partners (including regulators) to improve quality of care and outcomes, helping to ensure risks are identified and managed effectively
- Supporting the clinical commissioning cycle including scoping improvement, building a coalition to deliver, working with partners to implement and embed change, evaluating impact
- Ensuring effective joint-working across e.g. the primary and secondary care interface
- Working to improve and promote access, and champion inclusion for hard-to-reach communities
- Providing expert advice and guidance to borough partnership and, where applicable, related partner ambitions
- Offering system-side clinical perspective and support for urgent responses to local operational challenges e.g. winter preparedness, strikes, asylum seeker arrival, disease outbreaks
- Contributing to the GP website, championing its use, and ensuring frontline clinicians make fullest use of this tool
- Building vibrant local communities of clinical practice linking leaders and operators from Trusts, primary care networks, GP federations, and other partners.
- Deputising where needed for the Clinical Director
You will be a registered clinician with a professional body such as NMC, GMC, GPC or other professional body.
Job description
Job responsibilities
At a high level, Clinical Lead: Place activities are likely to include:
- Leading the development and delivery of local population health improvement initiatives
- Promoting and facilitating pathway improvement and redesign, while removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within boroughs
- Supporting oversight and management of service quality at place level, by sharing intelligence and working with partners (including regulators) to improve quality of care and outcomes, helping to ensure risks are identified and managed effectively
- Supporting the clinical commissioning cycle including scoping improvement, building a coalition to deliver, working with partners to implement and embed change, evaluating impact
- Ensuring effective joint-working across e.g. the primary and secondary care interface
- Working to improve and promote access, and champion inclusion for hard-to-reach communities
- Providing expert advice and guidance to borough partnership and, where applicable, related partner ambitions
- Offering system-side clinical perspective and support for urgent responses to local operational challenges e.g. winter preparedness, strikes, asylum seeker arrival, disease outbreaks
- Contributing to the GP website, championing its use, and ensuring frontline clinicians make fullest use of this tool
- Building vibrant local communities of clinical practice linking leaders and operators from Trusts, primary care networks, GP federations, and other partners.
- Deputising where needed for the Clinical Director
You will be a registered clinician with a professional body such as NMC, GMC, GPC or other professional body.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical/care professional qualification educated to Masters degree level or equivalent.
- Current registration with the relevant professional body.
- Evidence of ongoing post-registration education and training.
Experience
Essential
- Practising clinician with relevant clinical/ care professional experience, with the ability to lead, motivate and work collegiately
- Experience of participating in complex professional meetings in a collaborative, efficient and effective manner
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Essential
- Effective leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and borough levels.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical/care professional qualification educated to Masters degree level or equivalent.
- Current registration with the relevant professional body.
- Evidence of ongoing post-registration education and training.
Experience
Essential
- Practising clinician with relevant clinical/ care professional experience, with the ability to lead, motivate and work collegiately
- Experience of participating in complex professional meetings in a collaborative, efficient and effective manner
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Essential
- Effective leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and borough levels.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and conflicting demands to meet tight deadlines.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
