Clinical and Care Professional Cancer Icb Lead

This role will provide leadership to the clinical and care professional network for Cancer across the Integrated Care Board (ICB), and to the other Place Clinical & Care Professional Leads across the range of portfolio areas. They will be the ICB Cancer representative on the Lancashire and South Cumbria Clinical and Care Professional Assembly, ensuring the delivery of an increased awareness of cancer prevention and care in line with national initiatives at system level.

The Clinical and Care Professional Cancer ICB Lead will participate in developing programmes of education to improve referral practice, increase awareness of new or evolving clinical guidance, and share best practice in relation to cancer pathways (such as FIT), working closely with the four Place Cancer leads and the ICB secondary care cancer lead.

Although the focus of the role is Cancer it will involve working with portfolio leads across Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB, including representing the system and portfolio at relevant forums, identifying issues of concern and sharing improvements.

Work across the system to provide clinical leadership in relation to cancer pathways, clinical guidelines, operational standards, and key outcome measures described in the Primary Care DES, NHS Long Term Plan and other key policy documents.

Act as an advocate across all health and care sectors supporting pathway redesign.

Actively identify and pursue opportunities to reduce health inequalities across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Use data to identify areas of focus from recognised sources such (cancerstats, Model NHS, cancer wait times, PHE Fingertips).

Work alongside Place Based Partnerships (PBPs) Cancer Leads to direct activities in relation to areas of low performance, targeting health. inequalities and support the implementation of the key aspects of the DES.

Support innovations and new technologies, engaging PBPs to develop and implement pilots at place level.

Support the development of business cases and expansion plans in relation to access of national innovation funding, community diagnostic centres, the elective recovery programme and other relevant service development proposals.

Risk Management
You are required to contribute to the control of risk and use the incident reporting system to alert the ICB of incidents or near misses that may compromise the quality of services.

Equality & Diversity
The ICB is committed to equality and diversity and works hard to make sure all staff and service users have access to an environment that is open and a free from discrimination. As an ICB we value the diversity of our staff and service users, and therefore recognise and appreciate that everyone associated with the ICB is different and so should be treated in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences.
In support of this all staff are required to be aware of the ICB’s Equality and Diversity Policy and the commitments and responsibilities the ICB has to:
Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act

Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.

Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not

Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Clinical and Care Professional Cancer ICB Lead.

1 day / 2 sessions per week but negotiable with an opportunity for flexible working

Two Year Tenure Secondment

Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within our geography. We respect that communities know what they need best and aim to nurture a culture that embraces shared learning and supports clinical and care professional leaders to collaborate and innovate with a wide range of partners, including patients and local communities.

Through our clinical and care professional leadership framework you will be a part of a new way of working that aims to support health and social care to work effectively together, support care to be locally delivered, managed and planned and improve access by collaborating in care delivery to collectively manage vulnerable services.

You should be a clinical or care qualified (which includes social work) professional, have exceptional communication skills and be confident at working to develop effective relationships and work in partnership.

You should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current health and social care national aims and policies in your chosen specialist area as well as robust local knowledge of the determinants and barriers to providing user focused services in this area.