Primary Care Development Lead Havering

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an established or aspiring Clinical leader to drive positive improvement in General practice and wider primary care in Havering, implementing the recommendations of the Fuller review, and making a real improve to outcomes for local people.

You will work with the Havering Place-based Partnership Director and  Clinical Director, Directors of Primary Care, and with other leads (including from across NEL). The post-holder will provide leadership at a Place level to support the ongoing development of local primary care services and deliver the twin aims of the NEL Primary Care Strategy:

• To improve core Primary Care services, including General Practice, through a QI approach and to ensure Primary Care services, including General Practice, is ready to act as the cornerstone of the NEL integrated care system and deliver the visions of the Fuller Review locally.

You will support the ongoing development of the Place based Partnership, will be flexible and resilient; having the ability to both challenge and collaborate with partners to drive transformation and improvements in outcomes, during a period of considerable transition and change.

They will have a deep understanding of the challenges facing local Primary Care services and evolving requirements (such as the implementation of the recommendations from the Fuller Review), and will be passionate about improving quality, embedding innovation and improving outcomes for local people.

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Key Accountabilities 

The office holder will undertake the following duties and responsibilities, working with the Place based Partnership leadership, and wider partners as part of an integrated team:

▪ Lead work on behalf of the PbP and NEL Primary Care Team to identify the development needs of PCNs and primary care contractor organisations and put in place programmes of work to meet these needs

▪ Working closely with PCNs, address unwarranted variation through development programmes ensuring a QI approach is fully embedded in this work

▪ Provide strong clinical leadership for core primary care within the PbP, focusing on enabling primary care to undertake its work as effectively as possible.

▪ Work with the local Director for Primary Care and provide clinical leadership to the work of the wider primary care team.

We welcome applications from those who are medically trained and meet the other requirements of the role specification from across North East London and the wider NHS. Candidates are asked to assess conflicts of interest in terms of other positions that you may hold before applying for this post as this may be taken into consideration when reviewing the suitability of applicants for the role.

Please refer to the JD for further details on this role

Working for our organisation

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.