Head of Primary Care Services

at  NHS Nottingham Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

The post holder will develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting innovation across the Region. Working with Public Health England, Local Authorities, ICB footprints, the post holder will oversee the commissioning and delivery of pharmacy, optometry, and dental services.

The post holder will develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting innovation across ICB and regional footprints. Working closely with colleagues across the footprint:

• Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
• Develop and communicate the vision for the role of innovation, and the development of strategy and operational policies to support this vision.
• Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies.
• Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that ICB benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare.
• Support development by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations.
• Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary.
• Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training products.
• Provide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.

Accountable for developing and delivering strategy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence in the Sector. Working with a range of data, facts and situations often requiring detailed analysis and interpretation making decisions on the most appropriate approach.
To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables. Quality assurance and progress of deliverables to the ICB that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process.
To develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the National Director’s portfolio .
to implement closer integrated working with STP’s, Integrated Commissioning Systems & Primary Care Networks in order to deliver the requirements within the NHS Long Term Plan.
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.
We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS’ priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).
The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Improving quality and outcomes

• To ensure that the commissioning framework’s development and delivery is in accordance with the NHS Mandate and Regulations of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 across England and sets out a national vision for agreed NHS health services that responds to the health needs of the population.
• To support the implementation of the national commissioning framework and structure to secure high quality services.
• To ensure that the commissioning framework’s development and delivery is in accordance with the NHS Mandate and regulations of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 across England, that responds to the health needs of the population.
• To work with national partners, Regional and ICB Teams to deliver improvements in outcomes within the domains of the NHS Outcomes Framework.
• To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables. Providing quality assurance and progress of deliverables to the ICB that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process.

Enabling clinical leadership

• To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all ICB activities.
• To lead the development of contracting for health services to develop innovative models of delivery.
• To work closely with the medical directorate in the national, regional and local teams to ensure the implementation of an effective strategy and operational policies for promoting innovation in services commissioning.

Enabling patient and public involvement

• To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of the ICB.
• To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.
• To embed patient and public involvement within the ICB at all levels of decision making.
• To maintain the statutory requirement to involve patients in major service changes.

Promoting equality and reducing inequalities

• To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

Partnership and cross boundary working

• To ensure planning requirements are developed with key stakeholders, ensuring that service improvement drives objectives, rather than organisational positions.
• To support, in partnership with PHE, Local Authorities, Regional and ICB Teams and Primary Care Networks (PCNs), the national commissioning framework.
• To work with the ICB’s Policy Directorate and the DH to ensure robust handling of all parliamentary business/questions relating to health services.

Leadership for transformational change

• To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the Directorate.
• Through matrix working be able to share and call upon expertise to support systems to make improvements and transform services.
• Work with leading external agencies to horizon scan and identify opportunities to transform services (eg through technology) and supporting innovation.

Using insight and evidence for improvement

• By using a combination of local, regional, national and international evidence identify opportunities for improvement.
• Working with professional bodies identify and champion opportunities to learn from best practice and implement sustainable improvements within and across systems.

Developing an excellent organisation
To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department.
To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.
To adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times.
To ensure regular, productive and open communication with staff who they lead (e.g. Directorate and matrix teams

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