ICS Children and Young People’s Clinical Respiratory Lead

Job overview

The postholder will lead the implementation and delivery of the Asthma Bundle of Care within Frimley ICS, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based respiratory care for children and young people.  

      This role involves developing and embedding best practices for respiratory care.

      Collaborating across primary, secondary, and community care settings, the Clinical Lead will engage with multidisciplinary teams, schools, local Authorities, Charities and families to address health inequalities and improve outcomes.

      The post-holder will champion asthma awareness and prevention through training, public health initiatives, and integrated pathways aligned with national standards. They will monitor service performance, collect data to demonstrate impact, and lead quality improvement projects. This role requires clinical expertise, strategic vision, and the ability to influence stakeholders to achieve a cohesive, child-centred approach to respiratory care across the ICS.

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The postholder will nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, including national networks

Key relationships will include: 

•              ICS CYP Respiratory Network

•              ICS Adult Respiratory Network 

•              CCG staff, clinical leads, practices, lay members and patient representatives.

•              Women and Children’s Commissioning staff and other CCG teams.

•              Local Councils including Children’s Commissioning and Public Health.

•              Service Providers including NHS Trusts, Community providers, Primary care colleagues, Independent Contractors, Local Authorities and the Voluntary Sector.

•              Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, presenting information, to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.  

•              Committed to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of issues

•              Link with managers and members of other functions, to address interdependencies and ensure alignment

•              Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of any change 

Working for our organisation

NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.

The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, people and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.

Benefits include:

• Fringe HCAS payment
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Agile Working; currently 1 day a fortnight office based.

Supportive team, flexible working arrangements and access to NHS leadership development and training opportunities