Ncd for Older People - London, United Kingdom - NHS England

NHS England

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

NHS England is now recruiting for the new cohort of National Clinical Directors (NCDs) and National Specialty Advisors (NSAs).

Our NCDs and NSAs are a group of senior practising clinicians who provide overarching national clinical leadership to the organisation to support our programmes and priorities in addition to their clinical practice in the NHS.

They have extensive knowledge of their specialty areas, current experience in frontline NHS services, and can provide agile and responsive advice to sense check local and national initiatives.

The NCD will provide overarching specialist clinical leadership and advice for NHS England in these respects:

Clinical advice and leadership to drive transformation of services for patients through corporate programmes and Long-Term Plan workstreams;
Clinical advice and leadership to support the commissioning of services. The NCD may, where appropriate, be responsible for chairing the relevant specialised commissioning programme of care board.
Clinical advice to support development of policy and parliamentary accountability.

The NCD plays a crucial role in promoting effective coordination and collaboration with other clinical leads within the organisation.

This includes working closely with the GIRFT chair, GIRFT clinical leads, CRG chairs, WTE leads, and NHS Impact programmes to ensure that all their specialty areas are aligned with national policy and strategy.

We welcome applicants for the NCD role to consider whether they might also aspire to take on additional opportunities in GIRFT or specialised commissioning after appointment.

The NCD for Older People and Personalised Care will be responsible for the provision of high quality clinical leadership and advice to drive:

Improving access and timeliness of high quality community services
Shifting more care to the community including through responsive community provision
Delivering more proactive and personalised care to keep people well and reduce avoidable health care utilisation.
Strengthening the hands of the people we serve by improving choice and control including through selfcare and providing more safe and convenient care at home and closer to home, including care homes
Development and delivery of best practice in population segmentation for targeted identification of older people with frailty and multiple longterm conditions who would benefit most from comprehensive proactive and recurrent assessment by community multidisciplinary teams
Development of national models for community multidisciplinary team working to meet the needs of older people with complex conditions
Improved quality of care for residents in care homes
Improved interface care for older people with frailty entering and leaving secondary care
Improved cross sector (health, social care and voluntary and community sector) working to deliver high quality care for older people with complex conditions in communities
Development of policy focused on delivery of high quality care for older people with complex and longterm conditions in all settings
Research development working with NIHR and other grant bodies to build the national research agenda focused on meeting the needs of older people with complex conditions
Workforce planning and development for services to meet the needs of older people across sectors and in all settings
Engagement and closer working between the NHS and voluntary and community sectors to maximise opportunity for asset based approaches to commissioning and delivering sustainable health and social care in communities
Policy development focused on older people's mental health in close collaboration with the mental health programme
National adoption of population segmentation and risk stratification to improve population health for older people in collaboration with Public Health England
Development of new guidance and quality standards focused on meeting the needs of older people in collaboration with NICE
System wide engagement to raise care standards for older people across sectors working in collaboration with academic health science networks, professional bodies and societies
Engagement and collaboration with international networks to disseminate and share best practice, where possible pursuing opportunities to adopt and adapt models from international settings
Development of metrics and outcomes to evidence better care for older people nationally
Development of the digital agenda for older people including the use of data, wearables and other technologies to deliver improved health outcomes.

NCDs will also contribute to definition of the outcome measures by which clinicians and patients recognise services should be judged.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information about the specific responsibilities of the post.

The reason for the short term vacancy is because these roles are offered on a 3 year tenure. The end date for thi