About this role
Job summary
NHS North East London (NHS NEL) is recruiting Clinical Director of Proactive Care (Urgent and Emergency Care) at what is a critical time for the improving of clinical pathways within urgent and emergency care. The post holder will be providing clinical leadership, support and guidance to the NHS NEL's Chief Clinical and Quality Commissioning Officer. It is expected that the post holder is already an experienced and embedded senior clinical leader with an existing profile in urgent and emergency care at system level. Being clinically led is key to the success enjoyed to date by the Urgent and Emergency programmes operating in north east London. This role is primarily focused on supporting the Chief Clinical and Quality Commissioning Officer to further develop and implement the improvement and transformation across NHS NEL, ensuring robust clinical consultation and engagement. This role will support and work closely with senior colleagues within NHS NEL, assuming SRO / Chairing responsibilities for some key programmes and committees. If you have the skills and experience to make a valuable contribution to the development of digital technology in north east London, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
NEL ICB is responsible for commissioning most health services across NEL and is accountable for NHS spend and performance, ensuring all parts of the local health system work effectively together. The ICS serves a rapidly growing population of two million people that live in North East London. Our agreed ambition as a partnership is that "We will work with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity." Central to delivery of this ambition is making sure everything we do is informed by those with experience of developing and providing services and the lived experiences of patients and our populations. Expert input and leadership from front line clinical and care professionals is a fundamental ingredient to identifying effective and responsive service improvements and transformation.
About us
These place-based partnerships bring together the NHS, local government and providers of health and social care services, including the VCSE sector, people and communities, to provide a strong understanding of what works well with and what is needed by local communities. Working together in this way brings the ability to integrate local services across health and care and the levers to tackle some of the wider determinants of health, such as housing and employment. Plans for these partnerships are rapidly developing and expected to respond differently, reflecting specific local factors and priorities. They will identify how to meet the needs of the local population better and reduce health inequalities. Many programmes of work will also continue to span the ICS and there is a key role to ensure these wider workstreams are supported by NEL level clinical and care professional leadership, working hand in hand with provider collaboratives and places. Some specialist services and providers operate at an ICS or London wide scale and connecting these together is as critical to our future success and drilling down at place. These NEL level leadership roles are also critical to ensuring consistency and equity are maintained across our system and providing a link with NHSE or wider London Networks.
Job description Job responsibilities
We have developed a series of design principles that will ensure the CCP system leadership is fully integrated with executive and managerial leadership in our ICS operating model, system governance, structures and networks as a core required function of the NEL Integrated Care Board. It is designed to support delivery of a clear, purposeful and motivational ICS strategy to improve health outcomes for the population of north east London and is focused on key functions and programmes of work that have a clear benefit of being addressed at system level and what leaders can collectively contribute to the broader system. It is essential that our CCP leadership group is inclusive and reflective of the diversity, breadth and depth of our system across care settings, place, organisations, professional groups and networks and the population we serve. It is further designed to support the development of skills, behaviours, tools and relationships required to maintain a community of innovative and impactful system leaders working effectively across spatial, organisational and professional boundaries. Through all of this we will be able to support, develop and sustain a culture of learning underpinned by psychological safety in all aspects of this work. We will be providing development support for all of those with the skills and appetite to step into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles better reflecting our ambitions around integration and the multidisciplinary nature of care, as well as the diversity of the communities we serve. Principally we are looking for health and care professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries, and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration. We encourage applications for all multidisciplinary professional groups and in particular would welcome application from interested candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority ethnic background. We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications Essential
Registered Clinical practitioner and current valid registration with the relevant regulatory body (GMC, NMC, HCPC etc).
Experience Essential
Experience and evidence of clinical leadership at very senior and system level including currently operating at senior management level Experience of managing and delivering large scale projects, including managing a related, substantial budget Significant experience of working in a clinical commissioning role and experience of working with senior colleagues to deliver commissioning plans. Experience in design and delivery of large scale pathway transformation programmes Experience of working with regional and national NHS colleagues
Knowledge Essential
Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex, sensitive or contentious matters in difficult situations and influence colleagues High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner; assessing options and drawing appropriate conclusions Detailed knowledge of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in London and appreciation of the implications.
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).
Employer details Employer name NHS North East London
Address 20 Churchill Place
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)