Mental Health Clinical Lead - Leicester, United Kingdom - NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board

Description

Job summary

The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Integrated Care Board is seeking to recruit a Transformation Clinical Lead for Mental Health. The selected candidate will be responsible for providing support in other clinical priority areas through matrix working, as required.

The ideal candidate will have experience of working collaboratively across primary and secondary care to support transformation. The role will encompass alignment of strategic and current operational activities, co-ordinating the transformation of care and effective clinical leadership to achieve system change.

We are looking for a subject expert, with the appropriate post graduate qualifications.

Main duties of the job

Driving the transformation and improvement of existing or new pathways of care.

Facilitating on-going service development.

Reducing health inequalities across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland through a population health management approach.

Providing clinical expertise and experience in the field of Mental Health.

About us

This is an exciting opportunity to represent the interests of primary care and of course the patients and wider population of LLR. As a Clinical Lead you will be driving the improvement and transformation of new pathways of care and facilitating on-going service development. You will need to ensure full engagement in and implementation of these changes.

You will be part of the Medical Directorate whose establishment includes several clinical leads working on Transformation, Enabling or Place clinical leadership.

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

1. To provide clinical advice and expertise in developing and reviewing local priorities in partnership with the ICS stakeholders through understanding local issues affecting patients, the public and general practices.

2. Provide clinical and primary care insight into a specialist area or transformation agenda. Ensuring that the impact of redesign and transformation is thought through and managed with the best impact on patients and the NHS and social care system.

3. Engage, lead and energise clinician to clinician conversations across the health and social care system to reach a common goal ensuring ideas are moved into reality and benefits are realised.

4. To ensure decisions are taken with regard to securing the best use of public money

5. To work closely with the management teams, and clinical / non-clinical members of the ICS partners in the development, implementation and review of local priorities and policies.

6. To represent the ICS in groups / meetings within the ICS and across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland providing a clinical view on policy, strategy, implementation and performance.

7. Ensure that patient feedback and experience is incorporated in every part of the decision-making processes.

8. To ensure responsibility for own continuous professional development; and ensure mandatory training is undertaken in line with the ICB requirements.

Core attributes and competencies

Each individual needs to:

Core understanding and skills

Each individual will have:

Core personal experience

Whilst appointed post holders will not be officers or employed by the ICB they will be considered workers and therefore the following standard clauses will be required in any contractual arrangements with primary care

Mobility

Employees may be required to work at other sites as the organisation develops subject to consultation. The organisation is in a period of rapid change which may lead to modification of structures and job descriptions. The post holder will be expected to co-operate with changes subject to consultation, at any time throughout the duration of your contract.

See full Job Description and Person Specification attached for requirements on:

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Data Protection Responsibilities

Equality and Diversity

Smoking at Work

IM and T (Information Systems)

Infection Control

Safeguarding Responsibilities

Confidentiality and Caldicott

Person Specification

Criteria

Essential/

Desirable

Qualifications

Evidence of continuing professional development

E

3 years experience in a health, corporate, or voluntary sector organisation

E

Experience

Experience of redesign of clinical pathways to improve patient care, outcomes or reduce unwarranted variation in health inequalities.

E

Experience of working on projects and programmes demonstrating efficiencies and value for money.

E

Experienced at working in a collaborative decision-making group to improve outcomes for patients

E

Knowledge & Understanding

Demonstrable knowledge of Public Sector Equality Duty

E

Demonstrable skills, clinical knowledge and clinical experience in relation to health inequalities, including warranted and unwarranted health inequalities, and transformational change in clinical settings.

E

Have an understanding of the resource allocations devolved to NHS bodies.

E

Knowledge of governance within the NHS.

E

General understanding of health and an appreciation of the broad social, political and economic trends influencing it.

D

A general understanding of good governance and of the difference between governance and management.

E

Demonstrable understanding of the NHS principles and values as set out in the NHS Constitution.

E

An understanding of the principles of value for money and an ability to challenge performance on this basis

E

Good understanding of the role of effective communications and engagement with patients, public, workforce and stakeholders

E

Understanding of (and commitment to upholding) the Nolan Principles of Public Life, and the Standards for members of NHS Boards and Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Bodies in England

E

Attributes and Competencies

Able to give independent view on development and implementation of strategy and policy

E

Capability to understand and analyse complex issues, drawing on a breadth of data to inform decision-making, and to see that information ethically to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions.

E

Ability to influence and persuade others in a constructive debate

E

Ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives, especially external and user perspectives

E

Ability to communicate effectively, listening to others and actively sharing information

E

Sensitivity and organisational skills to operate effectively across complex work cultures and environments

E

Politically astute, with highly developed skills in engaging, influencing and securing shared ownership

E

Qualifications

Essential

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Essential

Experience

Essential

Experience

Essential

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge

Essential

Attributes and Competencies

Essential

Attributes and Competencies

Essential

Attributes and Competencies

Essential