About this role
Job summary
Our prevention priorities, Cardiorenal Metabolic Disease, Respiratory Health and Cancer are the biggest drivers of poor health and health inequalities, affecting all aspects of our population's lives. This role is at the heart of the ICBs mission to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities for our communities.
It is an exciting time to join the team as the ICB continues its transition towards a strategic commissioning function, with a renewed focus on prevention, population health and reducing health inequalities. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape future services and drive transformation in line with the NHS 10-Year Health Plan.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced and ambitious senior leader with a strong track record in commissioning, service redesign and transformation. The successful candidate will lead a high-performing team to deliver a challenging and impactful agenda across long-term conditions and prevention, working closely with clinical leaders, providers and system partners to improve outcomes for local populations.
You will be a proactive, innovative and solutions-focused individual, confident operating within a complex and evolving healthcare environment. A key aspect of the role will be using evidence, data, population health insights and best practice to inform commissioning decisions, identify opportunities for improvement and develop population health management approaches that address unwarranted variation, improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
With strong influencing and relationship-building skills, you will be able to foster productive partnerships across organisational boundaries, engaging clinical and operational leaders, local authorities, the voluntary sector and other stakeholders to design and deliver sustainable change. You will also demonstrate a strong understanding of national NHS priorities and policy, with the ability to translate strategic ambition into measurable local delivery.
About us
Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation's ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% on patch working, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
- Use population health intelligence to inform decision-making Analyse and interpret data, segmentation, and risk stratification to identify unmet need, health inequalities, unwarranted variation, and opportunities to improve outcomes and efficiency.
- Develop and implement service specifications and care pathways Translate evidence and best practice into service models and specifications. Support pathway redesign to shift care towards prevention, community-based and digitally enabled approaches.
- Monitor provider performance and ensure quality Oversee delivery of commissioned services, applying risk-based monitoring and quality assurance. Identify performance issues and support remedial actions in partnership with providers and stakeholders.
- Support market shaping and procurement activity Lead procurement planning, service redesign and market engagement. Guide outcome-based commissioning approaches and support commercial/contractual decision-making.
- Promote equity and reduce health inequalities Apply Core20PLUS5 and local insight to commissioning activity. Engage with underserved populations, clinicians, local authorities and VCSE partners to ensure accessible, equitable services.
- Support evaluation and service improvement Monitor outcomes, collect feedback and evaluate commissioned services. Identify opportunities to scale innovations, improve performance or recommend service adjustments.
- Lead and develop commissioning teams Supervise and mentor team members, supporting development of skills, knowledge and capability within the team. Promote a culture of evidence-based, value-driven commissioning.
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
- 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
- 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
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
Analytical
Essential
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long - term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Autonomy
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
- Ability to make decisions autonomously on difficult issues, when required, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
Management Skills
Essential
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
- 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
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of dayto-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems in the are
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
Address
County Hall and Haylock House
Leicester
LE3 8RA
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.icnorthamptonshire.org.uk/icb (Opens in a new tab)