Job summary
The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board System Coordination Centre is seeking a Band 8a System Coordination Centre Lead (subject to confirmation of grading) to work within the SCC and across the UEC wider team taking the system learning and creating transformation and improvement opportunities.
The purpose of System Control Centres is to always ensure the safest and highest quality of care possible for the population by balancing the clinical risk within and across all acute, community, mental health, primary care, and social care services. SCCs will ensure a consistent and collective approach to managing system demand and capacity as well as mitigation of risks, and will lead and facilitate the system to deliver:
Visibility of operational pressures and risks across providers and system partners
Concerted action across the ICS on key systemic and emergent issues impacting patient flow, ambulance handover delays and other performance, clinical and operational challenges
Dynamic responses to emerging challenges and mutual aid
Efficient flows of information
The role will be predominantly office based, from County Hall Glenfield, but will be agile with the opportunity to work from several provider locations in LLR to build relationships and experience pathways first hand, gaining a whole system knowledge base.
This is a full-time role working 37.5 hrs per week flexibly across Monday to Friday 08:00 - 18:00.
Main duties of the job
- Be responsible for the operational running of the System Coordination Centre
- Be responsible for building a combination of subject matter expertise and operational skill to enhance effective service delivery.
- Be responsible for implementing all national and local guidance and ensuring system assurance is established through clear actions and pre-set targets.
- Support the wider Urgent Care Team to deliver against national and local priorities to improve and transform urgent and emergency care for the population of LLR, driving better outcomes, improved operational performance and value or money in planning and commissioning.
- Work closely with a range of managers and directors for System Delivery to balance risk across the system in times of escalation.
About us
The NHS LLR Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory organisation bringing the NHS together locally to improve population health and establish shared strategic priorities within the NHS.The ICB is part of a wider LLR Integrated Care System which has four key objectives to:
1. Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare.
2. Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.
3.Enhance productivity and value for money.
4. Help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
This is a fantastic developmental opportunity for individuals seeking to expand their understanding of the wider healthcare system, to gain operational insight into the management of capacity across the system and to build relationships with system partners.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational
To engage and liaise with internal and external stakeholders, in particular support the delivery of day-to-day activities to manage system flow and escalation and ensure completion of appropriate reporting.
To liaise with the wider ICB teams to contribute operational feedback to a range of business initiatives and projects.
To support the identification and sharing of best practice.
To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
To chair daily System Flow calls, challenging partners, gaining assurance and clarifying actions as required to improve or maintain flow.
Provide operational leadership of the SCC which includes:
Relationship management.
Day to day coordination of information flow, risk and patient safety through established frameworks and protocols.
Ensure that system operational resilience is maintained through following frameworks and protocols.
Facilitate discussion between system partners, leading to problem solve and recovery.
Escalate areas of concern at system level through following frameworks within the ICB structure.
Focal point for liaison with NHS England Regional Operations Team.
Focal point for liaison with EMAS Duty Command Team.
Focal point for liaison with unscheduled care services providers.
Information gathering, interpretation and trend analysis leading to system operational recovery and improvement.
Continued development and management of escalation processes within the ICS.
Project Management
Lead the delivery of project plans as per work programme, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decision in the best interest of the project.
Identifying potential impacts in wider organisation resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
Pro-actively manage stakeholders, response to and resolve conflict between different stakeholders when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects and programmes of work in time to quality standards and in a cost effective manner.
Maintain project initiation documents and associated action plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports / briefings as required.
Staff Management
Directly manage the operational running of the SCC with responsibility for staff and operational leadership.
Responsible for undertaking staff appraisals and personal development following all relevant HR guidelines and policies.
Forge close positive working relationships to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
Support, motivate and develop staff within the team to ensure that they can deliver the responsibilities of the SCC.
Information Management
Daily use of performance monitoring tools (e.g. SHREWD, UHL Ops, EMAS CAD) to monitor system performance, identify areas of risk and engage with system partners as required to address areas of risk in a proactive manner.
Drafting reports summarising status on issues, impacts, aspiring outcomes and providing progress reports as required.
Collate as required qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project products.
Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by the UEC Team.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the organisation.
Key Working Relationships
- ICB EPPR Team
- Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) team
- LLR ICB directorates
- NHS England Midlands Region
- Local health and social care providers
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification
Previous Experience
Essential
- Operational experience within the NHS or social care at a senior level
- Experience of applying NHS E national frameworks into practice
- Comprehensive experience of project management
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders
- Experience if line management and reviewing performance if individuals
Evidence of particular knowledge; skills & ability
Essential
- Understanding of relationship between health, NHS E, DH, providers and commissioning organisations
- Knowledge of NHS E frameworks and how these are applied within operations
- Knowledge of current pressures in system flow and the government targets./ requirements to improve
- Experience of risk management, investigation, and mitigation
- oProven presentation skills, experience of training design and delivery
- oExcellent verbal and written communication skills, must be able to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance
- oUnderstanding of Risk, processes and controls both internally and external in the multi-agency field.
- oExcellent planning and organisation skills.
Desirable
- Experience of working in urgent care
- Experience of SHREWD and Ambulance CAD systems
Specific Aptitudes
Essential
- Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
- Ability to achieve goals with deadlines.
- Resilience, coping with adversity and ambiguity and acceptance of constructive criticism.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload allocating work as necessary
- Enthusiasm, drive and the ability to cope in challenging situations
- Ability to work with individuals at all levels of the organisation, stakeholders and members of the public.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
Specific Ability
Essential
- Ability to travel between sites across LLR, regionally and nationally
- Ability to work flexibly. May require some out of hours within agreed framework
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details
Employer name
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board
Address
HQ
Glenfield Road
Leicester
LE3 8RA