Job summary
The postholder will be a key member of the Chief Medical Officer directorate leadership team. The aim is to work collaboratively with local partners and communities to improve health outcomes, tackling health inequalities, enhancing productivity and value for money, and contributing to broader economic and social development. They will provide senior leadership and support to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for the Mat Neo element of the role working closely with the NWL Chief Midwife.
This is a key leadership position with responsibility for delivery both at system and place level of the North West London transformation programmes relating to Clinical Programmes and CMO Directorate including babies, children, young people, maternity and neonates. The role will support the Chief Medical Officer in the refinement & maintenance of Clinical Reference Groups and Clinical Policy Development.
The Director of Clinical Programmes will provide strategic leadership and oversight across the ICS and will be the focal point to tackle system opportunities and issues, including working across the health, social care and education economy to influence and engage stakeholders including families, children, Local Authorities, health and social care providers, third sector organisations, regulators, neighbouring ICS', and key strategic partners such as NHSE.
Main duties of the job
Lead the work of the BCYP and Mat Neo Programs and drive strategic, system wide transformation and business change, in collaboration with Clinical Leads, to ensure outcomes and benefits are realised across all programmes. Manage the detailed planning and implementation of these programme areas, ensuring that key milestones are achieved and that the required outcomes are met. Maintain effective relationships with key partners including voluntary and community sector, and ensure key sensitivities are appropriately managed. Manage programme risks ensuring that appropriate mitigations are in place and that risks are escalated as appropriate. Provide oversight of all work streams and projects associated with the Programmes and work with key stakeholders to overcome challenges to delivery within projects. Lead on identifying if any transformational change arising from the programmes require statutory consultation activities, leading associated actions if required. Ensure alignment of the work streams to each other, to other local plans ongoing within the ICS footprint that are outside the scope of the ICB, and to other programmes that may fall outside of the ICS footprint boundaries, seeking advice from others where necessary. Lead review of any new or revised national standards relating to these programmes ensuring any new or different requirements are integrated into the programme processes and outcomes.
About us
NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations, we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care.
Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them take greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.
To do this we will: Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare. Reduce inequalities in health outcomes, experience, and access. Enhance productivity and better value for money. Support broader social and economic development within our area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the detailed job description and main responsibilities for this role, please read the job description and person specification document provided on this advert.
Person Specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential
Educated to degree level or equivalent. Evidence of continuing professional development. Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills. Able to analyse both strategic and operational issues. Able to apply ethical theories and principles when considering options and reaching decisions and have highly developed analytical skills. Understanding of multi-agency accountability for commissioning children's health pathways. Demonstrate significant Specialist Knowledge of the practical application of national policy, statutory duties and legislation related to Children and Young People and Maternity and Neonates. Demonstrate experience of transforming service provision and delivering improved outcomes. Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including working with a diverse range of multi-agency stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome. Able to translate policy into strategy. Ability to justify decisions and actions and demonstrate reasoning where required. Knowledge of legal and statutory obligations required for BCYP, Statutory SEND functions and good governance. Able to demonstrate knowledge of the Operating Plans, relevant delivery strategies, clinical evidence resources and use and current NHS policy and direction. Knowledge of current healthcare and social care policy. Knowledge of and ability to apply the principles of evidence-based care.
Desirable
Previous experience working in BCYP and Maternity / Neonates programmes.
Communication
Essential
Able to forge and maintain strong collaborative relationships. Experience of motivating teams. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Able to influence and persuade others at all levels within and across organisation, articulating a balanced view and able to constructively question information from others. Excellent presentation skills and able to adapt presentation skills to different audiences.
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.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
North West London Integrated Care Board Address
NHS North West London ICB
15 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5JD
Employer's website #J-18808-Ljbffr
The postholder will be a key member of the Chief Medical Officer directorate leadership team. The aim is to work collaboratively with local partners and communities to improve health outcomes, tackling health inequalities, enhancing productivity and value for money, and contributing to broader economic and social development. They will provide senior leadership and support to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for the Mat Neo element of the role working closely with the NWL Chief Midwife.
This is a key leadership position with responsibility for delivery both at system and place level of the North West London transformation programmes relating to Clinical Programmes and CMO Directorate including babies, children, young people, maternity and neonates. The role will support the Chief Medical Officer in the refinement & maintenance of Clinical Reference Groups and Clinical Policy Development.
The Director of Clinical Programmes will provide strategic leadership and oversight across the ICS and will be the focal point to tackle system opportunities and issues, including working across the health, social care and education economy to influence and engage stakeholders including families, children, Local Authorities, health and social care providers, third sector organisations, regulators, neighbouring ICS', and key strategic partners such as NHSE.
Main duties of the job
Lead the work of the BCYP and Mat Neo Programs and drive strategic, system wide transformation and business change, in collaboration with Clinical Leads, to ensure outcomes and benefits are realised across all programmes. Manage the detailed planning and implementation of these programme areas, ensuring that key milestones are achieved and that the required outcomes are met. Maintain effective relationships with key partners including voluntary and community sector, and ensure key sensitivities are appropriately managed. Manage programme risks ensuring that appropriate mitigations are in place and that risks are escalated as appropriate. Provide oversight of all work streams and projects associated with the Programmes and work with key stakeholders to overcome challenges to delivery within projects. Lead on identifying if any transformational change arising from the programmes require statutory consultation activities, leading associated actions if required. Ensure alignment of the work streams to each other, to other local plans ongoing within the ICS footprint that are outside the scope of the ICB, and to other programmes that may fall outside of the ICS footprint boundaries, seeking advice from others where necessary. Lead review of any new or revised national standards relating to these programmes ensuring any new or different requirements are integrated into the programme processes and outcomes.
About us
NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations, we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care.
Working for us, you can help ensure that our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them and assist them take greater care of their own health to ensure they live longer, healthier lives.
To do this we will: Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare. Reduce inequalities in health outcomes, experience, and access. Enhance productivity and better value for money. Support broader social and economic development within our area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the detailed job description and main responsibilities for this role, please read the job description and person specification document provided on this advert.
Person Specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential
Educated to degree level or equivalent. Evidence of continuing professional development. Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills. Able to analyse both strategic and operational issues. Able to apply ethical theories and principles when considering options and reaching decisions and have highly developed analytical skills. Understanding of multi-agency accountability for commissioning children's health pathways. Demonstrate significant Specialist Knowledge of the practical application of national policy, statutory duties and legislation related to Children and Young People and Maternity and Neonates. Demonstrate experience of transforming service provision and delivering improved outcomes. Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including working with a diverse range of multi-agency stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome. Able to translate policy into strategy. Ability to justify decisions and actions and demonstrate reasoning where required. Knowledge of legal and statutory obligations required for BCYP, Statutory SEND functions and good governance. Able to demonstrate knowledge of the Operating Plans, relevant delivery strategies, clinical evidence resources and use and current NHS policy and direction. Knowledge of current healthcare and social care policy. Knowledge of and ability to apply the principles of evidence-based care.
Desirable
Previous experience working in BCYP and Maternity / Neonates programmes.
Communication
Essential
Able to forge and maintain strong collaborative relationships. Experience of motivating teams. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Able to influence and persuade others at all levels within and across organisation, articulating a balanced view and able to constructively question information from others. Excellent presentation skills and able to adapt presentation skills to different audiences.
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.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
North West London Integrated Care Board Address
NHS North West London ICB
15 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5JD
Employer's website #J-18808-Ljbffr
