Clinical and Care Professional Mental Health Pbp

This role will provide Mental Health leadership to the clinical and care professional network for the Place Based partnership (PBP), and to the other Clinical & Care Professional Leads and Directors within the PBP across the range of portfolio areas.

The Clinical and Care Professional Mental Health PBP Lead will lead on overseeing quality of mental health services within the PBP, including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across the PBP to improve quality of care and outcomes. They will ensure that there are effective mechanisms for anticipating, identifying, and responding to key clinical risks that could impact on the successful delivery of the strategy in their PBP. This will include engaging with system leaders from across the PBP to drive innovation, quality improvement, patient safety and population health outcomes.

Although the focus of the role is Mental Health, this will involve working with clinical leads across Lancashire & South Cumbria (LCS) ICB, including representing

Ensure that variation is reduced with an improved understanding and management of inappropriate variability in quality.

Support the delivery of the long-term plan mental health ambitions.

Advise on the development of strategies to support prevention and early intervention within the PBP.

Enhance the mental and physical health pathways to ensure equity and ensure better management and support for people with long term conditions and multiple morbidities and mental health problems and medically unexplained symptoms within the PBP.

Work within the PBP to ensure there is more primary care mental health focused development and quality improvement.

Promote and facilitate collective responsibility for improving whole pathways and removing organisational barriers to accessing health and care services within the PBP.

Work with other PBP and ICS colleagues to oversee the quality of all health services delivered for mental health in the PBP, including implementing a safer and just culture, safer systems, and safer care.

Ensure there is clinical input, including robust and considered challenge, into PBP decision-making at all levels.

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 Mental Health PBP 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.