About this role
Job summary
Akey role within the ICB Strategy Directorate, supporting the Head of Strategy and Planning and Director of Strategy to develop, coordinate and deliverhighqualitystrategic and operational plans.
"This role will require a minimum of 2 days 'on patch' working in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in our 2 main offices or partner sites"
Main duties of the job
The postholder will lead defined strategic workstreams, contribute to systemwide planning, and work collaboratively with partners to improve population health, reduceinequalitiesand strengthen system integration. The role will support the development of strategic, operational and pathway specific plans, ensuring alignment with national policy, regulatoryrequirementsand local priorities.
About us
Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland's health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.
Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.
Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:
- Our patients and our local population come first
- We work together in an open and accountable way
- We trust, challenge and support each other
- We do what we say we will do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
- Support the development ofhighqualitystrategic and operational plans including the ICB 5 Year Commissioning Plan.
- Keep up to date with policy developments across health and care and assess their impact on the organisation, partners,patientsand the public.
- Lead defined workstreams in developing systemwide strategic and operational plans, ensuring alignment with national policy, regulatoryrequirementsand local priorities.
- Identifyand maximise opportunities created by integrated and collaborative working across the health and care system, including service integration and improved outcomes for patients and the public.
- Draft and coordinate sections of the annual Operational Plan, ensuring clear actions,milestonesand compliance with NHS England and ICB Board requirements.
- Ensure plans support improve population health outcomes, reduce inequalities, deliver value formoneyand embed innovative commissioning practice.
- Collaborate across ICB Directorates and system partners to translate strategic plans into delivery through commissioning,contractingand provider collaboration.
- Use Population Health Management insights andevidencebasedapproaches to inform strategic development andplacebasedplanning.
- Ensure meaningful clinical, patient, public and community involvement in strategic planning activities.
- Monitor policy developments,identifyopportunities for improvement, and leadtimelimitedprojects that support directorate and system priorities.
- Plan and coordinate complex programmes of work, managing interdependencies,risksand deadlines to ensuretimelysubmission ofhighqualityplans and information.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Educated to master's level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Extensive knowledge of and expertise in specialisms relevant to function and role for example operational and five year strategic planning
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement for examples operational planning and 5 year planning
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Member of a relevant professional body
Communication Skills
Essential
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
Planning Skills
Essential
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
Autonomy
Essential
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
Management Skills
Essential
- Skills for direct line management and job management
- Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
Address
Haylock House / County Hall
Northampton/Leicester
NN15 6EY
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.icnorthamptonshire.org.uk/icb (Opens in a new tab)