Head of Service Children and Young People's - Preston, United Kingdom - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

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Preston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

The post holder will be responsible for providing management and clinical leadership and overseeing a team of healthcare and administrative professionals in the delivery of NHS Children and Young People's Continuing Care (CYPCC) and other children's commissioned activities, within the function of All Age Continuing Healthcare (AACC).

The service delivers assessment, care planning, commissioning and placement, quality and performance monitoring of provision, market management and development.

This role provides clinical leadership and professional expertise to manage a large team of clinical and non-clinical staff.

You would be responsible for:

setting and maintaining nursing and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) quality standards; ensuring adherence to the National Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care (CYPCC); and working with the Associate Director of CHC and IPA in planning and implementing programmes of service improvement and development.

You will be responsible for ensuring equity in the assessment of individuals for CYPCC and Joint Funding pathways via directly employed staff and through trained assessors in acute and other settings.

The post holder will work closely with the CHC commissioning, contracting and business functions to ensure that strategic and operational decision making is underpinned by strong clinical leadership.

Key Responsibilities
Provide clinical leadership and expertise to the CYPCC, Commissioning, Joint Funding Pathways, Quality and Performance Functions.
Work with ICB quality leads to agree and deliver actions in response to poor provider performance
Lead Children's team in the delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice, current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of Children's services on time, to quality standards and in a costeffective manner.
Working with the Associate Director for CHC and IPA in developing and implementing programmes of continuous improvement and service redesign to ensure that provision meets commissioners needs now and in the future.
Assist the Associate Director of CHC and IPA in designing proposals for new opportunities.
Responsible for ensuring commercial and quality compliance across all CYPCC providers of care.
Develop and manage consistency of practice and standards across the Children's teams including transitional arrangements for young adults moving into adulthood, protocol and policy adherence, internal and external training provision, commissioning and procurement processes.
Develop, challenge and influence standards and practice, to develop and improve staff, service delivery and better outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers.

The ICB aim is to improve the health of the people of Lancashire & South Cumbria and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.

Our hours of work are Monday -Friday, 9am -5pm with the opportunity for agile working.

Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is committed to the personal and professional development of their staff and offers a wide selection of learning and development opportunities.

Key Working Relationships
Lead and operate effectively in a flexible and increasingly demanding environment proactively engaging with internal and external clinical and nonclinical colleagues within the ICB, Local Authorities and partner organisations, care providers, NHS England, Ofsted and CQC.
Communicate and present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in a formal setting, with the ability to deal with potentially aggressive and antagonistic conflict situations.
Work and engage constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of contentious quality and safety issues in order to ensure that services commissioned by the ICB are provided effectively and safely, and to the appropriate level of quality. Scrutinise and challenge providers to ensure the ICB fulfils its duty to secure continuous improvement in the quality of commissioned care home and domiciliary services.
Develop and maintain key relationships internally and externally, including national networks, in order to provide advice and support to the ICB based on evidence and national guidance, including NHS England CHC Network, Personal Health Budget Network and CQC/Ofsted meetings.
Work closely with the Communication and Engagement team and various stakeholders,