Deputy Director Primary

4 weeks ago

Croydon, United Kingdom South West London Integrated Care Board Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious leader to be at the heart of the development and delivery of initiatives for Primary and Community Care, in line with SWL ICB and Croydon Place based priorities. The post holder will ensure that plans bring together primary and community care to ensure the progressive improvement in health outcomes for local people, enhanced productivity, efficiency and best value in models of service delivery, whilst promoting innovation.

The successful candidate will have experience at a senior level with regards to transforming and integrating health and care services, achieving change through partnership and leading a team. They will have a good understanding of NHS and care services, commissioning, programme management, community development and the prevention agenda.

To arrange an informal discussion about this role please contact Hilary Williams, Interim Director of Transformation and Commissioning, South West london ICB (Croydon Place) -

Interview Week commencing 1st July

Main duties of the job

Key duties of the role

Lead the integration of primary and community care in Croydon Place (as part of South West London ICB), ensuring alignment with the local Health and Care plan and the One Croydon Alliance priorities.

Lead the delivery of the wider prevention, proactive care and access improvement objectives as set out in the SWL primary care Strategy.

Ensure good local and regional governance for decision making and for the development and implementation of delivery plans.

Be a key member of the Croydon Place leadership community, deputising for the Director of Transformation and Commissioning; working closely with the local NHS Trusts, Council, primary care, community health providers and the VCSE sector; as well as working closely with colleagues across Southwest London ICS.

About us

NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.

Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:

an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.

ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):

to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; enhance productivity and value for money and; help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details

. Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure that primary and community care developments are aligned with widersystem transformation programmes. Develop and implement new models of care in primary care that complement theapproach to new ways of working in the emergent integrated care systems (ICS)models as appropriate to each area ensuring that they are grounded in strong andresilient primary care services. Ensure that Croydon Place apply evidence based, effective and legally compliantprocurement and contract management practice across the primary and communitycare commissioning portfolio. Maintain and strengthen strong collaborative working relationships with all primarycare and out of hospital providers and with respective professional bodies. Lead the Croydon planning processes relevant to delivery of enhanced primary careand community services in accordance with SWL and place initiatives Translate primary care and community services guidance and its relevance to placetransformation. Re-design patient pathways and re-configure services to support the provision ofservices in the most appropriate settings for patients and those accessing services,including managing and where necessary reconfiguring resources to support this. Design and deliver service redesign business cases, PIDs/servicespecifications/action plans and/or proposals, leading these to delivery. Manage and lead a programme of transformation developments in conjunction withclinical leads to improve the health outcomes in Croydon. This will involve proposingand agreeing developments via relevant Place Committees for Croydon. Support the development of primary care networks and working with the Croydon GPCollaborative, ensuring at scale services are robust and providing sufficient supportto general Title Deputy Director Primary Community Development and Delivery (8d)Date 25/08/23 Page 3 of 10 Guide, mentor and support clinicians and other key stakeholders in the analysis andinterpretation of complex data to diagnose problems and make recommendationsbased on options, monitor implementation and evaluate effectiveness. Present complex and sensitive information to open forums, conferences, regionalmeetings regarding service delivery and redesign. To be able to use developedformal and informal communication skills to convey, sometimes contentiousinformation in an appropriate manner. Ensure patient representation and involvement is fully accountable and integratedinto local projects. Ensure that all services adhere to and achieve standards and targets outlined by theSWL ICB Commissioning Plan within identified timescales and that reporting systemsare robust. To provide visible and effective leadership to the Primary Care and CommunityDevelopment and Delivery Team, including supporting the development of teammembers Work closely with One Croydon Alliance partners, including Croydon Council, CroydonHealth Services, South London and Maudsley NHS, Croydon GP Collaborative andCroydon based Voluntary Sector, social enterprise and faith organisations

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area 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 Evidence of continued professional development

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

In-depth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines such as financial management, performance management, information systems, staff management acquired through raining and experience over extended period Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment Extensive experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate and present on highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious matters and difficult situations Ability to persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities Ability to negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues Intermediate (or advanced) Keyboard skill - ability to use Microsoft Office package at intermediate (or advanced) level Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives Ability to make decisions autonomously and on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action Ability to make sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills

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