Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Director for Community and Primary Care
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Deputy Director for Community and Primary Care
Job Overview
Brent Integrated Care Partnership has several exciting opportunities available, supporting the borough-based partnership to deliver Integrated Neighbourhood Teams in a changing and evolving health and care landscape, as well as running a range of health and care transformation projects across the partnership.
In light of the local ICB restructuring, and the selection of CNWL as the Brent “Integrator” function, the Brent ICP Partners are restructuring their team, leading to a number of vacant positions becoming available.
We have a number of roles available, hosted by CNWL but working as part of a wider partnership of health and care organisations in Brent.
Brent Integrated Care Partnership (Brent ICP) brings together health and care organisations from across the borough. It aims to work collaboratively with all the health, care and wellbeing organisations that serve the community of Brent.
The partnership includes:
- Brent Council
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Healthwatch Brent
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
The ICP is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of residents and is committed to working with all of our diverse communities to ensure everyone’s needs are met.
Main duties of the job
The role, core responsibilities and requirements include the following:
Operational coordination and integration
- Support coordination between sectors, partners, and INTs to bridge fragmented services
- Run core integrated functions (e.g. INTs) and support transformation with Place/ BPPs
- Address practical collaboration issues such as workforce planning and interface building.
Facilitate population health management
- Enabling sharing and use of real-time data to deliver holistic, preventative care
- Support ICBs efforts to provide PHM data and build capacity at regional and Place level
- Support INTs to target interventions to address health needs and inequalities
Leadership and Delivery
- Ensure effective co-ordination of INTs, with primary care leading with a multidisciplinary team
- Work with primary care, local authorities, and other providers to embed agreed strategies
- Drive improvement through a test and learn approach
- Over time the integrator may become responsible for delegated NHS services as local policy matures
Drive in Access and Outcomes
- Use PHM data and local partnerships to identify disparities in care and access
- Work with VCSE and wider partners to ensure that services meet local population needs
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London Foundation Trust aims to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital/partnership status, race, religion, age, creed, colour, ethnic origin, disability, part time working status and real or suspected HIV/AIDS status. The Trust has a Valuing Diversity in the Workplace Policy and you are expected to adhere to the policy and support equality and value diversity by making sure that you do not discriminate, harass or bully colleagues, visitors or service users. You are also expected to make sure that you don’t contribute to discrimination, harassment or bullying or condone discrimination, harassment or bullying by others. Everyone has a personal responsibility to promote and develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity and where your role requires you to manage and supervise others you have the additional managerial responsibility to ensure that the team you work in does not discriminate, harass or bully.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
This post will be responsible for the leadership and oversight of a broad portfolio of work encompassing both short/medium term transformational projects/assignments and ‘business as usual’ responsibilities such as ongoing provider management. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate and utilise in-depth professional knowledge and experience across a range of disciplines, including those outlined below. The post requires strong strategic thinking, analytical/problem solving and diplomacy skills.
Key responsibilities for the post holder will include:
Operational and strategic development and delivery:
- Develop and implement strategies and business plans within the assigned work area(s), incorporating borough- and sector-level requirements and inputs from research, and working in conjunction with partner organisations.
- Use deep knowledge of portfolio area to support the identification of opportunities and potential future priorities, and lead the engagement with stakeholders to refine and prioritise delivery plans, including negotiation and management of competing priorities and differences of expert opinion.
- Work with relevant stakeholders, both operational and clinical, to develop appropriate outcome-based service specifications to inform transformation projects and potential procurement requirements.
- Work closely with Brent Council to enhance healthcare services for Brent residents
- Lead cross-functional teams comprising NHS professionals and council staff to ensure a holistic and patient-centric approach to service delivery
- Lead on Better Care Fund (BCF) and is responsible for Discharge Funding including winter schemes
- Lead on the alignment of primary care with community, mental health, acute outreach and VCSE around GP-registered populations, targeting frailty, high service users, and people stuck between services
- Ensure that Enhanced Services achievement is optimised and that the ARRS primary care roles are fully rolled out and embedded within Integrated Teams
- Responsible for the development of Local Enhanced Services
- Ensure that optimal primary care access is achieved
- Working closely with the NWL Primary Care Contracting Teams and the NWL Primary Care Collaborative to roll out new service developments at Brent level
- Analyse and assess performance of programme and project delivery relative to agreed strategic objectives.
Planning and organisation:
- Input into wider organisational and pan-sector strategies on behalf of the programme/borough, ensuring that key priorities for the post holder’s work area are integrated with and aligned to broader objectives.
- Lead on transforming programmes on behalf of the Brent Partnership
- Lead the development of policies and procedures for the assigned work area(s) as required, ensuring compliance with broader corporate, organisational and system policies.
- Formulates long-term strategic plans, involving uncertainty and impact on the organisation. Develops business plan, strategy for area of activity, and makes major contributions to corporate policies and strategy
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Person specification
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including working with a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in London and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between NHS England and individual provider and commsioning organisations
- Experience of delivering complex transformational projects, including working with a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions
- High level critical thinking skills
- Demonstrate sound judgement when guidelines may be ambiguous, seeking advice from senior members of the organisation when appropriate
- Holds the ability to analyse highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options. Analyses performance of area of activity in relation to performance targets, strategic objectives; develop strategies, business plans, advice in areas where expert opinion differs.
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Other
Essential criteria
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Developed leadership, vision and strategic thinking and planning skills
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