Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Blackpool
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £100,870 - £111,441 £300 per session |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Preston, PR1 8XJ |
| Cwmni: | NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7576237/125-ICB034-25 |
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A Vacancy at NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.
This role will provide overall leadership to the clinical and care professional network for the Blackpool Based Partnership (PBP) – acknowledging the close working relationships across the Fylde Coast footprint (Place plus), and to the other Clinical and Care Professional Leads across the range of portfolio areas. They will be a Blackpool the voice at system clinical meetings e.g. clinical assembly, task and finish groups relevant to place, ensuring the voice of the place, and the professionals within it, is heard and informs decision making at system level.
The Clinical and Care Professional Lead will play a key part in creating links across all health and social care sectors including voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations in the PBP, working with other members of the PBP team. As a leader they will ensure links between all levels of care, the PBP and all clinical and care professionals and use their experience and expertise to engage, inform and support improvements in care. They will provide clinical and care professional leadership to support the Place Lead, in the development and delivery of the ambitions of the ICB, ICP and PBP and the integration of health and social care.
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Team within the ICB aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.
Good induction and training offered. Friendly Multi-disciplinary Team. The role is varied and involves working closely with Local Authority, Acute Trusts and with providers.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.
The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.
Contacts and relationships
· Positively engage with external agencies and act as advocate for the PBP and partner organisations
· Actively look for potential opportunities with key contacts to address health inequalities, improve population health and improve overall service delivery and performance
· Work with other clinical programme place- based clinical and care leads, including, but not limited to, Blackpool’s clinical and care professional leads for Mental Health, Cancer, Quality and Digital as well as programme system clinical and care leads, when necessary, to support delivery of improvements.
· To provide expertise and leadership to population health and health inequalities at place, working in alignment with and under the direction of the Associate Medical Director for Population Health, including:
o supporting the Population Health Place Team
o engaging with partner organisations and communities regarding health inequalities and population health and providing enabling support, leadership and assistance as required
o Leading a network of PCN health inequality Clinical Leads at place, ensuring action to understand health inequalities and embed population health approaches in every neighbourhood
· Connect and build trust with colleagues and patients across traditional boundaries - developing strong networks and relationships that work in service of patients over organisations, places or professional groups
· Make sound operational and clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision
· Listen with compassion to the needs, hopes and challenges of those they work with and serve, using this understanding to actively involve others in the decisions that affect their lives
· Support the Place based leaders to gather, verify and assess all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of the situation.
Service delivery and outcomes
· Ensure that the needs of the population, service users and their carers are at the core of the way PBP delivers services, recognising and tackling inequalities of access and outcome
· Catalyse and embed ways to test and share new and innovative ideas and approaches that improve how we design and deliver care to our patients and population
· Ensure that service delivery is person centred, outcomes focused and protective of individual service users’ dignity
· Support service managers to ensure that the service meets all relevant quality standards, specifically CQC, ICB and all relevant NICE guidelines
· Support the effective and efficient deployment of resources to achieve agreed outcomes and targets
· Work as a team member developing and maintaining effective working relationships
· Keep up to date with relevant policies and procedures
Creativity and innovation
· Encourage and test new ways of working together, collaborating and learning from each other to achieve our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population
· Seek out and embrace different ideas, perspectives and challenges – being able to adapt and change course by continually learning from others around them.
· Takes an innovative and creative approach to solving problems
· Considers innovation in the workplace an ongoing responsibility and welcomes change as an integral part of both individual and organisation development
· Acts as a positive role model for innovation and a facilitator for change
· Enables PBP to support the ICB ambition to help the NHS to provide broader social and economic development
Planning and organising
· Develops practical and realistic plans to achieve outcomes/objectives
· Considers the wider implications with regards to skills, resources in achieving plans/ outcomes/objectives
· Ensures appropriate resources and levels of capability to deliver priorities as well as delivering value for money
· Takes responsibility for delivery of plans, outcomes and objectives which may involve coordinating and organising others
· Ensures that all locally developed plans, and the enactment of ICP strategic plans locally, are crafted in such a way as to meet local population health needs, that plans do not unintentionally widen access or outcome inequalities and that plans are both evidence based and have appropriate assurance metrics attached to them.
Communication
· Actively contribute to a culture of positive communication
· Support the Place based team to deliver presentations and training internally to staff and externally to partners/ agencies, where appropriate
· Support the Place based team with CQC inspections, service developments and other relevant tasks
Financial Management
· Effectively manage resources within your control.
Personal development
· Continually develop own clinical knowledge and practise with respect to service speciality
· Maintain professional registration (e.g. GMC, NMC, etc.)
· Readiness to continue personal development in accessing opportunities to listen to the voices of lived experience and continually deepen understanding of the barriers to health for those facing the great inequalities
Equality and Diversity
· Act in ways that actively promote equity and value diversity
· Help to develop and maintain an organisational culture that supports equity and diversity.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Nov 2025
This role will provide overall leadership to the clinical and care professional network for the Blackpool Based Partnership (PBP) – acknowledging the close working relationships across the Fylde Coast footprint (Place plus), and to the other Clinical and Care Professional Leads across the range of portfolio areas. They will be a Blackpool the voice at system clinical meetings e.g. clinical assembly, task and finish groups relevant to place, ensuring the voice of the place, and the professionals within it, is heard and informs decision making at system level.
The Clinical and Care Professional Lead will play a key part in creating links across all health and social care sectors including voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations in the PBP, working with other members of the PBP team. As a leader they will ensure links between all levels of care, the PBP and all clinical and care professionals and use their experience and expertise to engage, inform and support improvements in care. They will provide clinical and care professional leadership to support the Place Lead, in the development and delivery of the ambitions of the ICB, ICP and PBP and the integration of health and social care.
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Team within the ICB aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.
Good induction and training offered. Friendly Multi-disciplinary Team. The role is varied and involves working closely with Local Authority, Acute Trusts and with providers.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.
The following are the key requirements identified for this role and the approaches needed for them.
Contacts and relationships
· Positively engage with external agencies and act as advocate for the PBP and partner organisations
· Actively look for potential opportunities with key contacts to address health inequalities, improve population health and improve overall service delivery and performance
· Work with other clinical programme place- based clinical and care leads, including, but not limited to, Blackpool’s clinical and care professional leads for Mental Health, Cancer, Quality and Digital as well as programme system clinical and care leads, when necessary, to support delivery of improvements.
· To provide expertise and leadership to population health and health inequalities at place, working in alignment with and under the direction of the Associate Medical Director for Population Health, including:
o supporting the Population Health Place Team
o engaging with partner organisations and communities regarding health inequalities and population health and providing enabling support, leadership and assistance as required
o Leading a network of PCN health inequality Clinical Leads at place, ensuring action to understand health inequalities and embed population health approaches in every neighbourhood
· Connect and build trust with colleagues and patients across traditional boundaries - developing strong networks and relationships that work in service of patients over organisations, places or professional groups
· Make sound operational and clinical judgements that ensure safe and effective service provision
· Listen with compassion to the needs, hopes and challenges of those they work with and serve, using this understanding to actively involve others in the decisions that affect their lives
· Support the Place based leaders to gather, verify and assess all appropriate and available information to gain an accurate understanding of the situation.
Service delivery and outcomes
· Ensure that the needs of the population, service users and their carers are at the core of the way PBP delivers services, recognising and tackling inequalities of access and outcome
· Catalyse and embed ways to test and share new and innovative ideas and approaches that improve how we design and deliver care to our patients and population
· Ensure that service delivery is person centred, outcomes focused and protective of individual service users’ dignity
· Support service managers to ensure that the service meets all relevant quality standards, specifically CQC, ICB and all relevant NICE guidelines
· Support the effective and efficient deployment of resources to achieve agreed outcomes and targets
· Work as a team member developing and maintaining effective working relationships
· Keep up to date with relevant policies and procedures
Creativity and innovation
· Encourage and test new ways of working together, collaborating and learning from each other to achieve our collective ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of our population
· Seek out and embrace different ideas, perspectives and challenges – being able to adapt and change course by continually learning from others around them.
· Takes an innovative and creative approach to solving problems
· Considers innovation in the workplace an ongoing responsibility and welcomes change as an integral part of both individual and organisation development
· Acts as a positive role model for innovation and a facilitator for change
· Enables PBP to support the ICB ambition to help the NHS to provide broader social and economic development
Planning and organising
· Develops practical and realistic plans to achieve outcomes/objectives
· Considers the wider implications with regards to skills, resources in achieving plans/ outcomes/objectives
· Ensures appropriate resources and levels of capability to deliver priorities as well as delivering value for money
· Takes responsibility for delivery of plans, outcomes and objectives which may involve coordinating and organising others
· Ensures that all locally developed plans, and the enactment of ICP strategic plans locally, are crafted in such a way as to meet local population health needs, that plans do not unintentionally widen access or outcome inequalities and that plans are both evidence based and have appropriate assurance metrics attached to them.
Communication
· Actively contribute to a culture of positive communication
· Support the Place based team to deliver presentations and training internally to staff and externally to partners/ agencies, where appropriate
· Support the Place based team with CQC inspections, service developments and other relevant tasks
Financial Management
· Effectively manage resources within your control.
Personal development
· Continually develop own clinical knowledge and practise with respect to service speciality
· Maintain professional registration (e.g. GMC, NMC, etc.)
· Readiness to continue personal development in accessing opportunities to listen to the voices of lived experience and continually deepen understanding of the barriers to health for those facing the great inequalities
Equality and Diversity
· Act in ways that actively promote equity and value diversity
· Help to develop and maintain an organisational culture that supports equity and diversity.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Nov 2025