Clinical Director of Primary Care

NEL ICB is responsible for commissioning most health services across NEL and is accountable for NHS spend and performance, ensuring all parts of the local health system work effectively together. The ICS serves a rapidly growing population of two million people that live in North East London. Our agreed ambition as a partnership is that "We will work with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity." Central to delivery of this ambition is making sure everything we do is informed by those with experience of developing and providing services and the lived experiences of patients and our populations. Expert input and leadership from front line clinical and care professionals is a fundamental ingredient to identifying effective and responsive service improvements and transformation.

We have developed a series of design principles that will ensure the CCP system leadership is fully integrated with executive and managerial leadership in our ICS operating model, system governance, structures and networks as a core required function of the NEL Integrated Care Board. It is designed to support delivery of a clear, purposeful and motivational ICS strategy to improve health outcomes for the population of north east London and is focused on key functions and programmes of work that have a clear benefit of being addressed at system level and what leaders can collectively contribute to the broader system. It is essential that our CCP leadership group is inclusive and reflective of the diversity, breadth and depth of our system across care settings, place, organisations, professional groups and networks and the population we serve. It is further designed to support the development of skills, behaviours, tools and relationships required to maintain a community of innovative and impactful system leaders working effectively across spatial, organisational and professional boundaries. Through all of this we will be able to support, develop and sustain a culture of learning underpinned by psychological safety in all aspects of this work. We will be providing development support for all of those with the skills and appetite to step into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles better reflecting our ambitions around integration and the multidisciplinary nature of care, as well as the diversity of the communities we serve. Principally we are looking for health and care professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries, and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration. We encourage applications for all multidisciplinary professional groups and in particular would welcome application from interested candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority ethnic background. We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.

These place-based partnerships bring together the NHS, local government and providers of health and social care services, including the VCSE sector, people and communities, to provide a strong understanding of what works well with and what is needed by local communities. Working together in this way brings the ability to integrate local services across health and care and the levers to tackle some of the wider determinants of health, such as housing and employment. Plans for these partnerships are rapidly developing and expected to respond differently, reflecting specific local factors and priorities. They will identify how to meet the needs of the local population better and reduce health inequalities. Many programmes of work will also continue to span the ICS and there is a key role to ensure these wider workstreams are supported by NEL level clinical and care professional leadership, working hand in hand with provider collaboratives and places. Some specialist services and providers operate at an ICS or London wide scale and connecting these together is as critical to our future success and drilling down at place. These NEL level leadership roles are also critical to ensuring consistency and equity are maintained across our system and providing a link with NHSE or wider London Networks.

Education / Qualifications

Essential: - oRegistered Clinical practitioner and current valid registration with the relevant regulatory body (GMC, NMC, HCPC etc).

Experience

Knowledge