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Surgical Clinical Reference Groups Clinical Lead
| Posting date: | 16 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £138,600.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £138600.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW1 5JD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | D9807-NWL-692a |
Summary
The Clinical Lead will provide expert clinical leadership and guidance, oversight, support and recommendations in relation to North West Londons approach to the provision and delivery of surgical, ENT, ophthalmology and urology services in furtherance of the NHS Long Term Plan. Key pathways, workstreams and responsibilities within this include: co-chairing, in partnership with the nominated Consultant lead and supported by an ICS representative each of the following Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs) osurgical (covering General Surgery, Upper GI (including bariatrics), Lower GI (including colorectal, Breast & Endocrine) oENT oOphthalmology ourology working with each of the CRGs, and onwards through the ICS, to lead those CRGs in addressing their work programme which shall include: osupporting access, demand, surge and recovery initiatives; otransformation of clinical pathways and services, including within the community oimplementation of GIRFT recommendations, to delivery top decile performance and address inequalities of access and outcome, and odevelopment and implementation of hubs and other innovative service delivery models across the whole system pathway ensuring that a whole pathway approach is taken, including elements delivered by community services and 3rd sector agencies in addition to those delivered by the acute hospital providers ensuring that the development of pathways is provider agnostic and is in the best interest of the patient providing Clinical leadership and expertise in the development of a workplans and strategies for these services supporting the development and sign-off of common core specification for delivery of out of hospital pathways, reducing the level of variation across the sector ensuring the clinical engagement and input from leads across primary care and community providers working with Clinical Leads for Chronic disease to ensure pathway development within the surgical specialities above align, where appropriate, with chronic disease pathways; chairing agreed task-finish groups to deliver against the agreed CRG work programmes supporting discussions at regional (London) and National (England) level around delivery of national priorities for the above specialties providing primary care leadership, input and expertise across the eight NW London boroughs; which is likely to include: oacting as the primary care advocate for pathway changes and other service adjustments, whether in hospital or the community osupporting the development and implementation of GP/primary care education & advice events osupporting the development and implementation of effective GP/primary care, Patient and Public communications, and oproviding subject matter expertise to the CRG, other ICS programmes and the Clinical Advisory Group, and supporting the development of medium and long term ICS and Commissioning strategies. Clinical leads should ensure that work in their area includes consideration of, discussion, impact and outcomes for all ages, including babies, children and young people, adults and older adults. A population health approach should be used to consider the needs of different generations at their different life stages and the transition between these stages e.g. transition from adolescence to adulthood. Each NWL Primary Care Clinical Leads role is to, for their defined clinical areas / themes: provide the primary care perspective think and act strategically about service development needs provide NW London system-wide clinical leadership with a focus on improving quality of care and reducing variation in outcomes for our resident population support development of clinical pathways in line with clinical effectiveness drive delivery of clinical pathways and improved outcomes in primary care across NW London work to address inequalities and reduce variation in outcomes across NW London actively monitor population health to understand where the need is greatest and develop rapid improvement projects to target and improve health outcomes for those populations link into with the relevant local clinical lead for each borough/ ICP and ensure regular communication/ participation for example by meetings asynchronous digital communication with the aim of delivering the clinical pathway in each borough/ PCN work closely with the relevant NW London ICS programme delivery managers present at NW London Clinical Advisory Group and relevant clinical leads and primary care forums as and when necessary provide clinical advice to the NW London ICBs Quality Team to support investigations and the learning emerging from them provide clinical leadership to support and facilitate educational needs identified by coordinating and delivering education webinars and resources Co-chair the relevant NW London Clinical Reference Group(s), and represent NW London at pan-London and Regional meetings where relevant. Key priorities of clinical leadership in NW London are to help drive effective efforts to reduce health inequalities and improve life expectancy; ensure people get access to the right treatment, at the right time, in the right place; and help people to recover and stay well. This is now in the context of increased demand and greater morbidity as a result of Covid-19, meaning that greater importance is placed on: better use of digital technology to deliver safe, flexible care easy access to the right care and support, with prompt response in a crisis/emergency, and different ways of working and supporting our staff. Functional Responsibilities: Supporting the primary care quality agenda Support the primary care quality agenda of the three elements of quality: patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience within primary care. Support the Primary Care Quality Improvement team to implement the primary care quality strategy by facilitating connections and forums to raise awareness and progress delivery. Lead by example and share learning from managing serious incidents under the Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework (PSIRF) and Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE). Work with the Primary Care Quality Improvement team to identify areas to incorporate quality improvement methodologies in primary care to ensure the provision of care to the right patients and service users at the right time by the right staff. Analytical Awareness of risks to the programme and ensure that escalation processes are followed. Provide coordination of and lead relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested. Ensure that data collected is analysed, reported as appropriate and monitor the processing of data and information. Communications and Engagement Support co-production as a way of working ensuring the key aspects of the workstream are developed with service users and experts by experience. Maintain clear and effective lines of communication at all levels with stakeholders. Be able to work effectively with service users, GP Practices, NHS providers as well as non-NHS providers. Interface with clinical leads in the other programmes for example: children and young people, elective, urgent and emergency care, diagnostics. Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports to the programme team, sponsors and a range of internal and external staff. Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters. Work with key stakeholders to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions. Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team. Support the relevant NWL ICS programmes in the preparation of correspondence and papers. General Financial and Physical Resources Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines. Continually strive for delivering project/function outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency Contribute to the financial delivery of the project ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time. Information Management Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, to enhance decision making processes. Lead on development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of new information systems/databases as required. Research and Development Actively lead and contributes to the development of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of variation. Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment. Ensuring there are processes in place for spreading and sharing learning and outcomes. Work with local academic organisations, drawing on their expertise and resource to support service development and evaluation.