Head of Delivery Assurance Primary Care - Preston, United Kingdom - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (125)
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Preston, United Kingdom

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Main duties and responsibilities Leading delivery Working with the Director of Primary Care to lead the development and delivery of primary care commissioning, contracting and delivery assurance policies and processes, ensuring strategic fit to the ICB plan and national legislation and policy Lead the commissioning, contracting and delivery assurance of safe, sustainable and high quality services, which provide good value for money for the local population and promote integration.

Lead the development and delivery of the commissioning, contracting and delivery assurance annual operating plan leading and supporting delivery of designated wider PACC and ICB projects.

Provide clear direction for the areas of responsibility that is in accordance with the organisations values, the ICBs constitution and the NHS Long Term Plan requirements Provide visible and dynamic leadership and guidance to senior management and ICB members, providing technical advice and communicating this within and across organisations Working with the Director of Primary Care, to create a robust and sustainable organisational structure with the capacity and capability to meet statutory obligations of the CCG in terms of quality and effective use of public funds Support the development of, and embed collaborative and effective partnership working across health and social care providers, commissioners, Local Authorities and other NHS and non-NHS organisations and stakeholders Ensure that the organisations values diversity and promotes equality and inclusivity in all aspects of its business Work with clinical colleagues, the public, patients and partners to establish and communicate effective strategies for the ongoing improvement of health services Working with place facing colleagues to ensure robust commissioning, contracting and delivery assurance process are in place across the PACC team.

Clinical Engagement Work with the ICB clinical leads to develop a culture that ensures a strong clinical voice to the delivery assurance of primary care contracts Support wider clinical engagement across provider and commissioner to break down boundaries and avoid silo working, in the development and delivery of robust primary care commissioning, contracting and delivery assurance Ensure that the interests of patients and the community remain at the heart of discussions and decisions Strategic delivery assurance Provide constructive challenge to current practice, including clinical practice and develop new ways of working that improve the quality and effectiveness of services Ensure the ICB is responsive to the views of local people and promotes self-care and shared decision-making Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries to secure improved outcomes for patients, local communities and the wider population and make necessary arrangements to ensure the effective commissioning of services Understand and escalate risks associated with portfolio, including understanding of the strategies that have been adopted by the ICB to manage and mitigate these risks Ensure patients and the wider public are actively involved in the design of healthcare services and that this feedback is used to enhance choice, quality and efficient service provision Contracting finance and quality To lead on performance management of primary care contracts and contractual frameworks in conjunction with place facing staff.


Working closely with providers to ensure that national and local performance indicators are met and ensuring maximum performance and cost effectiveness Proactively manage and put in place remedial action on performance issues/programme failings and mitigate risk, holding providers to account in delivery.

Support the Director of Primary Care in ensuring that the regularity and propriety of expenditure is discharged, that arrangements are put in place to ensure good practice is embodied and funds are safeguarded through effective financial and management systems Lead the negotiation of new contractual forms Have budgetary responsibility for allocated providers and redesign programmes within the portfolio and accountable for development of SMART plans to deliver required QIPP targets.

The post holder will ensure that there are systems in place to support inter
- organisational quality assurance and quality improvement Policy creation/edit/updates Lead the development of primary care commissioning, contracting and delivery assurance strategies and operational policies Research and development The post holder will ensure they remain up to speed on all the latest national and local developments, best practice, emerging evidence to support effective commissioning
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