Mental Health Clinical Lead - Transformation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key responsibilities

1.  To provide clinical advice and expertise in developing and reviewing local priorities in partnership with the ICS stakeholders through understanding local issues affecting patients, the public and general practices.

2. Provide clinical and primary care insight into a specialist area or transformation agenda. Ensuring that the impact of redesign and transformation is thought through and managed with the best impact on patients and the NHS and social care system.

3. Engage, lead and energise clinician to clinician conversations across the health and social care system to reach a common goal ensuring ideas are moved into reality and benefits are realised.

4. To ensure decisions are taken with regard to securing the best use of public money

5. To work closely with the management teams, and clinical / non-clinical members of the ICS partners in the development, implementation and review of local priorities and policies.

6. To represent the ICS in groups / meetings within the ICS and across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland providing a clinical view on policy, strategy, implementation and performance.

7. Ensure that patient feedback and experience is incorporated in every part of the decision-making processes.

8. To ensure responsibility for own continuous professional development; and ensure mandatory training is undertaken in line with the ICB requirements.

Core attributes and competencies

Each individual needs to:

1. demonstrate commitment to continuously improving outcomes, tackling health inequalities and delivering the best value for money for the taxpayer;
2. embrace effective governance, accountability and stewardship of public money and demonstrate an understanding of the principles of good scrutiny;
3. demonstrate commitment to clinical transformation, the ICB and to the wider interests of the health and social care services;
4. bring a sound understanding of, and a commitment to upholding, the NHS principles and values as set out in the NHS Constitution;
5. demonstrate a commitment to upholding The Nolan Principles of Public Life along with an ability to reflect them in his/her leadership role and the culture of the ICB;
6. be committed to upholding the proposed Standards for members of NHS Boards in England developed by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence;
7. be committed to ensuring that the organisation values diversity and promotes equality and inclusivity in all aspects of its business;
8. consider social care principles and promote health and social care integration where this is in the patients‘ best interest; and
9. bring to the ICS and ICB, the following leadership qualities:

• creating the vision - effective leadership involves contributing to the creation of a compelling vision for the future and communicating this within and across organisations;
• working with others - effective leadership requires individuals to work with others in teams and networks to commission continually improving services;
• being close to patients - this is about truly engaging and involving patients and communities;
• intellectual capacity and application - able to think conceptually in order to plan flexibly for the longer term and being continually alert to finding ways to improve;
• demonstrating personal qualities - effective leadership requires individuals to draw upon their values, strengths and abilities to commission high standards of service; and
• leadership essence - can best be described as someone who demonstrates presence and engages people by the way they communicate, behave and interact with ot

 Core understanding and skills

Each individual will have:

1. a general understanding of good governance and of the difference between governance and management;
2. a general understanding of health and an appreciation of the broad social, political and economic trends influencing it;
3. capability to understand and analyse complex issues, drawing on the breadth of data that needs to inform ICB deliberations and decision-making, and the wisdom to ensure that it is used ethically to balance competing priorities and make difficult decisions;
4. the confidence to question information and explanations supplied by others, who may be experts in their field;
5. the ability to influence and persuade others articulating a balanced, not personal, view and to engage in constructive debate without being adversarial or losing respect and goodwill;
6. the ability to take an objective view, seeing issues from all perspectives, especially external and user perspectives;
7. the ability to recognise key influencers and the skills in engaging and involving them; the ability to communicate effectively, listening to others and actively sharing information; and
8. the ability to demonstrate how your skills and abilities can actively contribute to the work of the governing body and how this will enable you to participate effectively as a team member.

Core personal experience

1. previous experience of working in a collective decision-making group responsible for leading transformation
2. a track record in securing or supporting improvements for patients or the wider public.

  Whilst appointed post holders will not be officers or employed by the ICB they will be considered workers and therefore the following standard clauses will be required in any contractual arrangements with primary care

Mobility

Employees may be required to work at other sites as the organisation develops subject to consultation. The organisation is in a period of rapid change which may lead to modification of structures and job descriptions. The post holder will be expected to co-operate with changes subject to consultation, at any time throughout the duration of your contract.

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