NHS
Basildon, Essex
Feb 21, 2025
Full time
Alliance Delivery & Commissioning Lead - Southeast - Band 8c NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board This advert is only open to those currently employed by the following organisations: Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Interview Date: 27 March 2025 Do you have a passion for partnership working and transformation? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen in the South East Essex Alliance team for a Commissioning Delivery Lead. We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual to embed a culture of collaborative innovation and integration across health, care, and VCSFE partners. This role will have a focus on: Developing and delivering the ambitions for Neighbourhood Health in SEE by working with partners to deliver integrated neighbourhood approaches, focused on preventing and reducing needs from escalating and playing a critical role in shifting the model of care from acute to community. Co-designing and delivering activity to address wider determinants of health by working with communities and partners across the Alliance partnerships to define and deliver initiatives specific to the needs of individual neighbourhoods, securing tangible improvements in health and wellbeing and supporting integrated neighbourhoods to mature. Providing dedicated transformation and commissioning support to the system-wide Financial Recovery Programme. Hybrid working with an office base in Basildon but likely to be working across a range of stakeholder bases. Main duties of the job Mid & South Essex footprint, main focus in South East Essex (Castle Point, Rochford, and Southend). This role requires an innovative and creative individual, a self-starter, able to adapt to new strategies, ideas, and ways of working as they enable delivery of the Alliance and ICB/ICP ambitions. Managing a team of staff, you will be expected to lead and inspire the team to deliver a challenging work programme across a wide range of subject areas, to address local need and work within a framework of collaboration, integration, and engagement. About us Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex and is part of the wider integrated care system. Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Phoenix Court, Basildon, but there is a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Mid and South Essex and home working. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that the different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications regardless of people's age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion or belief. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustment for people who have a disability. We would also encourage applicants to raise any personal circumstances they would like us to be aware of so that we can consider possible adjustments. Unfortunately, the organisation does not have a Sponsorship licence. Date posted 11 February 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8c Salary £74,290 to £85,601 a year plus, fringe London allowance Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number D9708-MSE450 Job locations Phoenix House Christopher Martin Road Basildon Essex SS14 3HG Job responsibilities ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System comprises the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations across the area. The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition. The postholder will be a senior manager within the Alliance-based team, who will work in partnership with local communities to improve local population health and deliver the ICB priorities to support system recovery and contribute to the medium-term plan. They will be responsible for working with the Alliance Director and Deputy Alliance Director, as well as senior Alliance partners, on setting the strategic direction and delivering it. The role will be responsible for embedding a culture of collaborative innovation and integration across partners, including residents. The role will lead on developing Alliance partnerships to define and deliver objectives specific to the needs of their locality, securing tangible improvements in health and wellbeing across local communities. This will be at both Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) and locality level, ensuring potential for optimisation of outcomes is maximized wherever opportunity arises. The postholder will be responsible for driving transformational change through effective commissioning, working with partners to ensure a direct focus on operational and financial recovery. Adopting collaborative approaches and working in a dynamic matrix manner to lead significant pathway changes, reflecting the system-defined priorities and implementing national guidance. Although the postholder will be based within an Alliance team, they will work closely and collaboratively with all teams across the ICB. The postholder will be a dynamic, motivated individual who is a self-starter, able to adapt to new strategies, ideas, and ways of working as they enable delivery of the ICB ambitions. They will manage a team of staff and will be expected to lead and inspire the team to carry out a challenging work programme across a wide range of subject areas. COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES Complete autonomy within the role and accountability for decisions made during the course of duties Set long-term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon within the setting of the strategy Management of multiple senior members of staff Create an environment that promotes, develops and enables the adoption of collaborative responsibility by driving transformation and change in current commissioned activities. Accountable and responsible for multiple budgets and or income streams of delivery Demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in the field of work ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors. Responsible for supporting the Alliance Director and Deputy Alliance Director in delivering the core functions of the ICB and delivering National standards- Governance, assurance and oversight, performance, and quality of local services. Understand the priorities and challenges of partners, in particular Local Authorities and local voluntary sectors organisations. Establishes, nurtures and promotes relationships with and between all partners, ensuring a broad and robust network that enables meaningful collaboration, integration of care and optimisation of outcomes at a local level. Leads on developing and implementing effective mechanisms for meaningful engagement with residents and local community in defining care needs and designing solutions, across all cultures and communities. Able to translate the ICB and Alliance strategic vision into action by designing, developing and ensuring effective delivery of large-scale and complex projects at system and Alliance level. Ongoing development of processes to improve the patient experience and ensuring pathways developed to support improved outcomes have a clear evaluation of success. Responsible for the oversight of delivery of workstreams, outcomes and objectives that the team they oversee are responsible for, as determined by ICB and Alliance strategy. Responsible for delivery of Alliance level development at Alliance/locality/INT level, working with key partners and communities in the area to optimise outcomes at a local level. Work closely with partners, in particular local authority public health teams, to identify appropriate interventions to reduce health inequalities and address the wider determinants of health. Responsible for overseeing the development and ensuring the delivery of INTs so they become the foundation of out of hospital care. This will include identification and oversight of delivery of ambitious, innovative projects that address local need, working within a framework of collaboration, integration and engagement to deliver improvements in: - Health and wellbeing promotion and prevention; - Anticipatory and complex care - Urgent and episodic care; Understands . click apply for full job details