Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Demonstrate effective problem-solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
2. Demonstrate ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
3. Take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
4. Demonstrate the ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
5. To support the operational delivery of day to day reporting across the system, focusing on financial reporting, contracting monitoring, and performance analysis, including: Analyse utilisation of health and care resources at locality and neighbourhood level; Benchmark published productivity data and ICB/provider expenditure Provide a solid activity and costing data;Analyse utilisation of health and care resources at locality and neighbourhood level;In year monitoring of financial performance, including ERF and other activity monitoring; Provide provider and place-based performance analytics against national standards, constitutional targets, and locally commissioned objectives
6. They will support on the delivery of complex evidence-based insight analysis on the operation of the system. Translating service priorities into analysis plans and measurable KPIs, including health inequalities.
7. Design, build and maintain routine reports/dashboards (Power BI/Excel) for performance standards (RTT, A&E/UEC, diagnostics, cancer, mental health, primary care) to meet the ICB delivery plans and NHSE/I assurance programmes.
8. Conduct quality and peer review for analyst outputs both for their own area and across the team
9. To promote analysis and evidence, ensuring that the work of the team is accessible and perceived as valuable.
10. To encourage system colleagues to draw on data, analysis and evidence in setting out and implementing their delivery plans. Engaging stakeholders to refine requirements and communicate insights clearly.

Please refer to the full job description attached

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Good working knowledge of Power Bi, Excel and Microsoft SQL Server. Experiencing in generating reports in a visualisation tool
• Experiencing in generating reports in a visualisation tool
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with ICS partners and Providers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Highlight difficult and controversial issues including performance and change to senior managers
• Putting the long-term health, social care and well-being needs of the population first (system first)
• Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve
• excellence in everything we do
• Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes
• Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times
• Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of supporting project/ programme delivery.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
• Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the ICB/ICS and individual provider and commissioning organisations

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate an understanding of datasets and data sources including the quality and reliability of the data.
• Experience of triangulating data from different sources and demonstrate an appreciation of the differences that might occur in large datasets.
• Good working knowledge with relevant analysis software including Microsoft Excel, Power BI, SQL Server or equivalent.
• Knowledge of specialist areas including health and service redesign acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training,

Personal Qualities

Essential

• You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times.
• You are respectful to others and listen to others
• You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role
• Professionalism and understanding difference is key

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Black Country Integrated Care Board

St. Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be accountable for:

1. Supporting the Senior Finance Manager with monthly accounting processes including supporting monthly reporting to budget holders. This includes timely financial analysis and modelling on a routine and ad hoc basis to ensure that monthly reports and forecasts represent a true and fair view of the ICBs financial position.
2. Supporting on the completion of Freedom of Information requests that require financial input relating to CHC, Mental health and LDA in accordance with the legislation.
3. Undertake monthly reconciliation of the ledger to ensure that all transactions are coded correctly, to post ledger journals where required.
4. Undertaking in-depth financial analysis, interpreting data trends and variances, and presenting findings to senior finance colleagues and stakeholders to inform strategic decisions.
5. For a range of specific healthcare contracts and programme/projects/types of packages of care to be responsible for budget setting and in-year monitoring and reporting of variances and areas of risk. This will also include supporting the team to meet any external reporting requirements.
6. Processing mandate payment schedules in line with contract values, processing of Non-Purchase Order invoices ensuring these are correctly validated and coded.
7. Liaising and working with providers for the relevant contracts/projects/package of care providers and resolving payment queries. This may also include involvement in contract meetings, supporting with activity management processes or review of costs of packages of care.
8. Producing complex financial analysis and modelling to tight deadlines and to a high standard of accuracy, using information from various sources outside of the general ledger. This can include support to the development of healthcare programme reporting, for projects related to value and efficiency
9. Preparation of sales invoices and processing of credit notes and raising of purchase orders and liaising with suppliers and the finance team to ensure prompt and accurate payment of invoices/reimbursements.
10. Following financial policy and process to ensure funding allocations are spent in line with guidance and relevant accounting/procurement processes.
11. The post holder will support the Financial Control team with the month-to-month management of the ICB cash requirements providing cash flow forecasting and supporting with cash management for specific budget areas.
12. Completion of reconciliations relating to contracts, client database financial information and other areas as required.
13. To be able to work with the ICBs client databases, reviewing, interrogating and interpreting relevant financial information for month end reporting and planning purposes
14. To support the implementation of projects and provide the financial support in the development of business cases as appropriate
15. Providing financial information to support financial returns/requests to external stakeholders, e.g. financial submissions to NHS England, Freedom of Information Requests, ensuring that all financial information is accurate and submitted on time.
16. Working to tight timescales and fixed deadlines with peaks in workload requiring increased focus and effort, particularly at month end and during the year end accounting process and the annual contracting round
17. Utilising benchmarking data to assess performance against standards set both internally and externally by NHSE
18. Contributing to the continuous improvement of financial processes, identifying efficiencies, and supporting wider financial projects as directed by senior finance staff.
19. Line management responsibilities and day to day oversight for Finance support officers/finance assistants in team
20. To contribute to the development and improvement of the ICB finance team as a service provider by suggesting improvements to working practices; documenting procedures; maintaining a robust filing structure; organising own time to meet departmental and statutory deadlines; and supporting the development of other members of staff.

Please refer to the full job description

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Putting the long term health, social care and well-being needs of the population first (system first)
• Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve excellence in everything we do
• Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes
• Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times
• Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly

Personal Qualities

Essential

• You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times.
• You are respectful to others and listen to others.
• You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role.
• Professionalism and understanding difference is key.
• The promotion of equality of opportunity
• and good working relations (providing practical leadership)

Autonomy

Essential

• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information.
• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables
• Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Part qualified member of CCAB accountancy body (or equivalent experience by qualification) or,
• Full AAT qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Actively studying towards a full professional accountancy qualification CIMA or CCAB accountancy bodies

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Experience of presenting budget reports and corresponding at a senior level to a range of audiences
• Significant experience of working within a finance department. Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and Procedures
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills with the willingness to embrace technological advancements.
• Ability to Analyse, interpret and communicate useful financial information from large volumes of data in accordance with strict deadlines.

Desirable

• Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
• Experience of financial management accounting in the NHS
• Understanding of the public sector

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Wolverhampton Civic Centre

St. Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be accountable for:

1. Supporting the Senior Finance Manager with monthly accounting processes including supporting monthly reporting to budget holders. This includes timely financial analysis and modelling on a routine and ad hoc basis to ensure that monthly reports and forecasts represent a true and fair view of the ICBs financial position.
2. Undertaking monthly reconciliation of the ledger to ensure that all transactions are coded correctly, to post ledger journals where required and on behalf of the team.
3. Undertaking in-depth financial analysis, interpreting data trends and variances, and presenting findings to senior finance colleagues and stakeholders to inform strategic decisions.
4. For a range of specific healthcare contracts and programme/projects to be responsible for budget setting and in-year monitoring and reporting of variances and areas of risk. This will also include supporting the team to meet any external reporting requirements.
5. Processing mandate payment schedules in line with contract values, processing non-purchase invoices ensuring these are correctly validated and coded.
6. Liaising and working with providers for the relevant contracts/projects and resolving payment queries.
7. Producing complex financial analysis and modelling to tight deadlines and to a high standard of accuracy, using information from various sources outside of the general ledger. This can include support to the development of healthcare programme reporting, for projects related to value and efficiency
8. Preparation of sales invoices and processing of credit notes and raising of purchase orders and liaising with suppliers and the finance team to ensure prompt and accurate payment of invoices/reimbursements.
9. Following financial policy and process to ensure funding allocations are spent in line with guidance and relevant accounting/procurement processes.
10. The post holder will be responsible for month-to-month management of the ICB cash requirements including, cash flow forecasting and cash management for specific budget areas.
11. Completion of reconciliations relating to contracts and other areas as required.
12. To support the implementation of projects and provide the financial support in the development of business cases as appropriate
13. Providing financial information to support financial returns/requests to external stakeholders, e.g. financial submissions to NHS England, Freedom of Information Requests, ensuring that all financial information is accurate and submitted on time.
14. Working to tight timescales and fixed deadlines with peaks in workload requiring increased focus and effort, particularly at month end and during the year end accounting process and the annual contracting round
15. Utilising benchmarking data to assess performance against standards set both internally and externally by NHSE
16. Contributing to the continuous improvement of financial processes, identifying efficiencies, and supporting wider financial projects as directed by senior finance staff.
17. To contribute to the development and improvement of the ICB finance team as a service provider by suggesting improvements to working practices; documenting procedures; maintaining a robust filing structure; organising own time to meet departmental and statutory deadlines; and supporting the development of other members of staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject, or equivalent level qualification, or equivalent demonstrable relevant experience
• Part qualified member of CIMA or CCAB accountancy body (or equivalent experience by qualification) or full AAT qualification
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Project management experience or qualification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written language and proof-reading skills
• Ability to produce error-free documents with a keen eye for detail
• Ability to compose a wide range of written communications, including analysing and summarising information, for a wide range of audiences
• Numerate and analytical, with the ability to analyse and enter a high volume of data accurately onto excel spreadsheets quickly to support monthly financial & management reporting.
• High level skills for communicating complex information with a broad range of stakeholders
• Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden and unexpected demands
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to reprioritise
• Able to function and remain focused in high pressure situations
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to achieve collective goals
• Ability to motivate and encourage others

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a finance department
• Experience of routine reporting (monthly, quarterly, year-end) and of working to tight deadlines.
• Experience of working with large complex data sets, manipulating, analysing, and presenting
• Extensive use of ledger software and spreadsheet packages Intermediate Excel and MS Office skills to be used to regularly create files
• Experience of managing or maintaining information systems
• Knowledge of project principles and techniques
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment, where adjustment to project tasks and other priorities occurs regularly
• Experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
• Experience of achieving objectives by working with others not under your direct line management

Desirable

• Experience of financial management accounting in the NHS
• Broad knowledge across a range of work procedures and practices which require expertise within a specialism, or specialist knowledge across a range of areas underpinned by theoretical knowledge or experience
• Demonstrable experience in a business/project support or manager role

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Caring and considerate, with a genuine passion for improving the lives of our communities
• Respectful and able to listen to/take on board feedback from others
• Open and honest, ensuring that you are approachable in conducting your role
• Understanding of individual differences
• Trustworthy and able to maintain confidentiality
• Good time keeping
• Ability to maintain calm under pressure
• Flexible approach to work

Autonomy

Essential

• Ability to work to own initiative and maintain a high level of organisation

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Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Wolverhampton Civic Centre

St. Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be accountable for:

• Assisting in the financial management process within the CHC, Mental health and LDA finance team with key duties as follows:

Processing of invoices for payment for packages of care

Month end Reporting for Team responsible areas

Annual financial management duties to support the production of Annual Accounts

Reporting of financial information as required to budget managers

Responding to routine queries from stakeholders

Application of Microsoft Office suite and other applications such as Oracle ledger

• Supporting the Senior Finance Officer in specific analysis linked to packages of care under CHC/MH/LDA including reconciliation of ledger to the ICBs client databases
• Validating invoices for payment against the client databases record of commitments and investigating reasons for differences, supporting personal health budget (PHBs) payments and audits, appeals and retrospective payment requirements
• Checking through unpaid invoices on the system for potential duplicates plus invoices without a supplier setup
• Supporting the set-up of new providers, working with the financial control team
• Processing transactions such as journals, invoices, IPFs and budget adjustments as necessary
• Taking telephone calls from providers and through enquiry on the accounts payable system, identify payments made to them and if necessary, chase the relevant personnel or SBS for outstanding items
• Inputting and processing financial information, completing routine variance analysis, journal entries etc
• Maintaining accurate working papers and recording of ledger transactions for audit purposes
• Completing ad hoc analysis of the budgets within the teams portfolio with assistance from the Senior Finance Officer
• Resolving queries from managers and budget holders regarding any accounts payable matters.
• Monitor invoices on hold to ensure they are held for valid reasons and taken off hold as required or responsible.
• Ensuring financial records are accurate, complete and conform to necessary standards
• Assisting in the delivery of information to support the annual planning cycle
• Supporting the wider objectives of the finance team as appropriate
• Assisting the team to ensure that the ICB adheres to its governance framework and complies with the relevant statutory regulation
• Liaising with CHC leads as required to assist in financial issues including budget or payment errors, modelling simple service changes etc
• Actioning processes such as Waivers, Requisitions and Workforce Management requests for the Finance team and support the commissioning teams in the process.
• Actively participating in departmental training as well as HFMA and One NHS Finance programmes.

Please refer to the full job description attached

Person Specification

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Caring and considerate, with a genuine passion for improving the lives of our communities
• Respectful and able to listen to/take on board feedback from others
• Open and honest, ensuring that you are approachable in conducting your role
• Understanding of individual differences
• Trustworthy and able to maintain confidentiality
• Good time keeping
• Ability to maintain calm under pressure
• Flexible approach to work

Autonomy

Essential

• Ability to work to own initiative and maintain a high level of organisation

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a customer or patient-facing environment
• Demonstrable experience of working in an administrative environment, where use of computerised systems was a regular requirement
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
• Ability to Analyse, interpret and communicate useful financial information from large volumes of data in accordance with strict deadlines.

Desirable

• Experience of ordering equipment and services
• Experience of working in NHS finance
• Understanding of Data Protection legislation

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to NVQ Level 3 in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Clear communicator with excellent verbal and written skills
• Excellent customer service skills promoting a professional, positive, helpful and friendly environment
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and collaborating with others to achieve excellence
• Problem solving skills
• Being inclusive, supportive and empowering others
• Engaging and enabling others working towards the same goals

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Wolverhampton Civic Centre

St Peter's Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will lead the West Midlands primary care commissioning and shared services function to ensure that work streams and programmes are planned and carried out effectively on behalf of all West Midlands ICBs and to support the ICBs in delivering their delegated primary care commissioning responsibilities from NHSE. The function includes: secondary care dental commissioning, GP estates, GMAST, pharmacy including Pharmacy Services Regulations Committee, optometry, clinical advisors, and centralised PMO support across the West Midlands.

The shared services function is hosted by the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB cluster on behalf of all West Midlands ICBs. As such, the postholder will be required to support and contribute to broader primary care transformation; meet regularly with each ICB cluster to agree and review plans and priorities; and provide assurance and reporting through ICB specific and collective governance routes as agreed. The postholder will be expected to be a part of each clusters formal governance arrangements attending appropriate commissioning committees at all three clusters and adhere to each clusters working measures, as above. In addition they will be expected to report to a joint governance group which will cover all three clusters across the West Midlands region and account for the delivery of all hosted services.

The post holder will lead the provision of an efficient, effective, and high quality, professional and well co-ordinated procurement and contract management service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements for primary care ensuring alignment with the activity of the organisation. This role will need to contribute to the strategic commissioning agenda across the Chief Strategy Officers directorate and will need to work across all four sub functions.

The post holder will deputise for the Deputy Chir Officer Primary Care and Associate Director of Primary Care as required and also report directly to each clusters Primary Care Directors on a regular basis.

The post holder will support the Directors of Primary Care in each ICB cluster in discharging delegated responsibilities for general medical, community pharmacy, optometry and dental services.

In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:

• Commissioning for Value and Outcomes
• Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace
• Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways
• Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity
• Advancing Health Equity
• Integrated Partnership

The post holder will be accountable for:

• Senior leadership and oversight for the provision of an efficient, effective, high quality, professional and well-coordinated contract management, commissioning and performance function for primary care, that meets all statutory and regulatory requirements and ensures that national priorities are delivered, and corporate objectives of all West Midlands ICBs met.
• Senior leadership and line/operational management support for the Primary Care Commissioning POD/GMAST Team, in line with organisational policies and procedures and ensuring that work programmes are planned and carried out effectively for all functions, providing resilience where necessary.
• Work closely with colleagues to ensure a whole system approach to effective surveillance of POD delivery, including identifying concerns with performance and quality of patient services, identifying improvement opportunities, providing support as required in conjunction with ICB colleagues and overseeing and managing where there are concerns with the performance and quality of services delivered.
• Subject matter expertise in POD commissioning and contracting, including on emerging contract vehicles and requirements, acting as a point of contact expert for providers, colleagues, patients and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for supporting the ICBs in their delivery of commissioning and contracting functions for primary care, interfacing with colleagues and governance arrangements in all ICB clusters.

A copy of the full job description is attached

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines
• Skills for direct line management and job management
• Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• Ensures staff for whom the post holder has line management responsibility
• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change

Mobility

Essential

• Ability to travel across sites as required

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities
• Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues

Autonomy

Essential

• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables
• Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality opportunity and diversity
• Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in relevant specialist area
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or
• experience to masters level equivalent
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Commitment to continuing professional development

Desirable

• Educated to Masters level in a relevant discipline, or equivalent level of knowledge and experience gained through substantial senior leadership roles within primary care commissioning and contracting.
• Extensive specialist knowledge of primary care/POD and Secondary Care Dental commissioning, contracting and performance management, acquired through postgraduate study and/or significant senior-level professional experience.
• Evidence of sustained post-qualifying professional development relevant to senior leadership, commissioning, contracting, governance and system working.
• Commitment to maintaining professional credibility and keeping abreast of national policy, legislative and system changes

Experience

Essential

• Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
• Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific team
• Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market
• Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning
• Manages team within the constraints of NHS strategic plan
• Previously responsible for a budget, involve in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Used to working in a busy environment
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current national and local healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the DHSC, NHSE and individual provider and the commissioning organisations
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Wolverhampton Civic Centre

St Peter's Square

Wolverhampton

Midlands

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The complete job description and person specification can be found in the attached document.

You will be responsible for providing support to Birmingham & Solihull and Black Country Cluster to ensure the delivery of financial information and advice across various budgets in the Acute and Community portfolio to support effective management control and decision making, enabling the organisations to plan, monitor, report and use its financial resources in an effective and efficient manner, and which facilitates the achievement of the business objectives and statutory duties.

The post holder will also have to operate as part of the wider finance team which means that the focus of work may be varied as business needs dictate, therefore a flexible approach to work is required.

In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:

Commissioning for Value and Outcomes

Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace

Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways

Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity

Advancing Health Equity

Integrated Partnership

You will be accountable for:

1. Ensuring the delivery of financial information and advice across various budgets to support effective management control and decision making, enabling the organisations to plan, monitor, report and use its financial resources in an effective and efficient manner, and which facilitates the achievement of the business objectives and statutory duties

2. Maintaining complex financial and forecasting models to aid proactive budget management and planning for the ICB.

3. The co-ordination of internal and external reports and returns.

4. Setting budgets for specific programme areas, clearly identifying the methodologies used and effectively communicating the process to Non-Financially minded budget holders.

5. Meeting with budget holders to validate the budgets produced, highlight any areas where cost pressures are likely and identify opportunities for managing them.

6. Using their knowledge and experience to contribute towards the development and delivery of the financial strategy.

7. Leading on the production of monthly working papers to aid the reporting of performance against budget. The post holder will be expected to communicate the financial position to the Senior Lead Finance Manager and Senior Finance Managers in the team and provide accompanying narrative and detailed analysis for inclusion within the regular papers to numerous committees.

8. Supporting in the planning, in-year financial management and reporting on the financial performance of any placed based responsibilities which could included for better care funds, neighbourhood and locality related programmes, intermediate care or other specific local projects.

9. Providing accurate year end forecast information based on the postholders knowledge of individual reporting areas.

10. The post holder will assist other members of the Finance team when other ad hoc requests occur.

11. Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio of projects/function.

12. To contribute to the development of new models of care or support investment into new community programmes from national initiatives

13. Working with the Planning & Strategic Investment team to set annual budgets within the funding available to the ICBs

14. Working with commissioning leads and contracting to identify and implement mitigating actions in year to ensure costs are managed within ICB budgets

15. Working alongside the planning & strategic investment finance team, supporting the development of transformational business cases to enable delivery of the 3 key shifts and ICBs strategic priorities

16. Developing and maintaining systems for the recording, reconciling, forecasting and reporting performance of acute and community against revenue resource allocations.

17. Supporting the financial negotiation of contracts with acute and community providers, ensuring contract values are within available resources based upon current guidance and legislation, and in accordance with activity proposals recommended by commissioning staff.

18. Deputising for the Senior Finance Managers Acute and Community as necessary.

19. Supporting on the completion of Freedom of Information requests that require financial input relating to ICB acute and community contracts in accordance with the legislation.

20. Supporting the completion of the ICBs Statutory Annual Accounts ensuring records and working papers are accurate and produced to the timescales required.

21. Devising and providing improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting; and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes and service redesign.

22. Working with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.

23. Evaluating projects/functions within identified portfolio for delivery against financial recovery/savings plans through providing sophisticated, high quality project analysis.

24. Ensuring financial records are accurate, complete and conform to necessary standards using professional judgement and estimations.

25. Ensuring financial transactions are in accordance with Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs). The post holder is also responsible for informing the Chief Finance Officer of any breach of SFIs and reporting incidences of fraud.

26. Working within departmental and ICB-wide policies and procedures, accounting principles, NHS guidelines and regulations, use professional knowledge and judgement to decide appropriate actions and responses which will also include highly sensitive or contentious issues.

27. Actively contributing to the local HFMA network and be an ambassador for future One NHS Finance accreditations.

28. Providing cross cover and support to the Financial Management function as necessary

Key Relationships

The post holder will be required to:

1. Maintain constructive working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders within and beyond the ICS, including primary, community and secondary care providers; voluntary and third sector Providers and NHSE

2. Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with ICS system partners, clinicians and contractors working on a variety of topics.

3. Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide information and analytical advice and expertise.

4. Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data.

5. Present information and issues, including highly complex issues, to a wide range of ICS partners and external stakeholders.

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

7. Have the ability to deal with resulting potentially challenging/antagonistic situations.

8. Commit to working and engaging constructively with ICS partners on a range of business sensitive issues.

9. Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, including national networks.

10. Liaise with the Communications and Engagement teams on public relations and marketing activities.

11. Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment e.g. IT specialists

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

13. Deputise for Senior Finance Manager Primary Care as required, expanding on knowledge, skills and experience within personal professional development.

Person Specification

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of NHS Finance management and operating model
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
• Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the ICB/ICS and individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills with the willingness to embrace technological advancements.
• Ability to Analyse, interpret and communicate useful financial information from large volumes of data in accordance with strict deadlines.

Desirable

• Experience of financial management of NHS contracts
• Knowledge of NHS payment rules

Mobility

Essential

• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Light physical effort
• Ability to travel across sites as required

Autonomy

Essential

• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables
• Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales

Personal qualities

Essential

• You conduct yourself in a caring and considerate manner at all times.
• You are respectful to others and listen to others
• You operate with openness and honesty and ensure you are approachable in conducting your role
• Professionalism and understanding difference is key

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with ICS partners and Providers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Highlight difficult and controversial issues including performance and change to senior managers
• Putting the long-term health, social care and well-being needs
• of the population first (system first)
• Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve
• excellence in everything we do in Bsol
• Holding yourself and others to account for delivering better outcomes
• Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times
• Engaging and enabling those working towards the aims we have as a collective

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• CCAB or CIMA professional qualification or extensive practical experience to an equivalent level
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Wolverhampton City Council

St. Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be accountable for:

1. Provide operational leadership, clinical expertise and management support to ensure that there are robust and effective systems and processes in place for monitoring and reviewing the quality and safety of commissioned services across the ICB
2. Provide senior clinical leadership and oversight of the quality and safety agenda across a designated care pathway / workstream leading collaborative working across all sectors of healthcare providers, Local Authority and independent regulators, taking action when needed and ensuring that where mitigation plans are necessary these are implemented delivering the required improvements in patient safety, outcomes and experience.
3. Support Head of Quality in the oversight and assurance of strategically commissioned services to ensure safe, efficient, effective and high quality professional and well-co-ordinated services capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS contractual requirements
4. Overseeing services commissioned via third parties associated with the quality framework ensuring appropriate service specifications and monitoring and review arrangements are actively applied and where necessary collaboratively commissioned with partners to enable maximum effectiveness
5. Using multiple information sources to identify any quality issues or risks in terms of patient care and safety with providers, taking action when required and agreeing corrective actions through constructive dialogue with system partners.
6. Using all available data and best practice evidence, to ensure that the ICS implements the best available approaches to improve quality and safety, working collaboratively with providers and partner agencies to ensure that solutions are robust and system-wide.
7. Be a champion for quality, ensuring it remains a core focus within the ICS and across the whole health care system.
8. Act at all times as an advocate for clients, and their carers, and report practices/concerns that may affect clients physical, emotional and mental wellbeing in accordance with line local and national performance best-practice, safeguarding policy and procedures, and harm free care.
9. Provide professional leadership in terms of advice and support to the quality team; health providers and contracting/ finance colleagues, in respect to commissioned healthcare services.
10. As senior care programme lead, work with system partners responsible for the delivery of projects and initiatives to continuously drive forward quality improvements in care.
11. Take project lead responsibility across a specific care programme areas within the Quality Strategy including contributing to the ICB priorities, agreeing actions with providers and reporting progress.
12. Establish local networks and effective working relationships with key healthcare providers and neighbouring ICSs across the health economy and build knowledge around the range and quality of services being provided.
13. Ensure that any all Quality and Safety incidents and risks are fully investigated, in accordance with the ICB contractual requirements and national framework, working closely with key system partners to ensure high quality & safe services across the system.
14. Ensure that assurance is gained from providers, including actions and learning is identified, shared across the system and embedded by providers.
15. Provide clinical quality assurance and improvement in terms of compliance and monitor risk, working across the wider health and social care footprint to assure high quality & safe patient services
16. Lead and support the organisation of any announced or unannounced visits and themed reviews, ensuring these are in accordance with ICB policy, feeding back and agreeing actions for improvement to ensure high quality and safe provision of services.
17. Lead the collaborative development and implementation of local and national quality metrics across the ICS, reviewing performance and monitoring actions and escalate improvement action associated with quality and safety concerns.
18. Support and deputise the Chair for clinical quality review group meetings and other relevant forums, ensuring they are effective, contributing to the overall assurance of delivery of high-quality care providers in accordance with contract requirements.
19. Supporting the Head of Quality, CCQO/CNO in the implementation, monitoring and review of the ICBs Quality Strategy, identifying areas for continuous quality improvement to maintain high standards of care quality for patients and service users and their carers.
20. Planning and leading improvement initiatives with partners throughout the health care system in response to national and local improvement opportunities that support and enable care quality

Person Specification

Autonomy

Essential

• Able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations, with the aim of improving deliverables
• Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, working to tight and often changing timescales

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to manage a complex workload under pressure and to delegate appropriately in order to deliver deadlines
• Standard keyboard skills
• Ability to engage and listen to others to inform professional practice
• Maintains emotional resilience and maturity
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Able to present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Ability to influence and persuade others
• Ability to lead, empower and motivate colleagues and stakeholders

Mobility

Essential

• Ability to travel to sites across the cluster as required

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to lead, empower and motivate colleagues and stakeholders
• Openness and honesty
• Respectful of others with the ability to listen and provide feedback constructively, acknowledging individual contributions
• An effective team player
• Caring and considerate in all environments
• Professionalism
• Good timekeeping

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• A demonstrable understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion with evidence of personal impact in these areas

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree or equivalent qualification in the relevant specialism/a related field, or equivalent level of demonstrable experience
• Registered Nurse /Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Registered Allied Health Care Professional
• Evidence of professional and personal development at senior management level

Desirable

• Specialist post graduate qualification in CYP and/or Maternity

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of ability to make significant and successful contributions at a senior level
• Evidence of strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of developing robust operational and strategic plans and strategies
• Clear and in-depth understanding of national NHS strategy and policy, and ability to translate this into strategic and operational outcomes
• Experience in building and nurturing strong and positive relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Knowledge of IT platforms relevant to the role
• Experience of managing potentially challenging, sensitive or contentious situations and/or characters

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS in addition to another sector
• Experience of directly line managing a team

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Wolverhampton Civic Centre

St Peter's Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be responsible for strategic and operational management of the ICB designated safeguarding functions and ensuring the ICB fulfils all statutory safeguarding duties. The postholder will provide system leadership for a defined Place, managing the local safeguarding team and workstreams including the related strategic plan for their areas of activity. You will work with partners across the sector and wider to ensure delivery of strategic objectives. You will ensure the provision of safeguarding, child protection and adult expertise and leadership throughout locally defined health economy and multiagency partnerships. The role is pivotal to complex case management, improved partnership working, strategic planning, quality assurance and safeguarding improvement.

As a senior member of the team, you will be required to deputise for the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships as appropriate and to coordinate and oversee the work of Assistant Designated Nurses for Safeguarding working within the same geographical area, delivering key outcomes.

In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:

Commissioning for Value and Outcomes

Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace

Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways

Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity

Advancing Health Equity

Integrated Partnership

You will be accountable for:

1. Ensuring the ICB meets all statutory safeguarding duties as defined in related documents including the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) 2024, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, Intercollegiate Documents for Children and Adults 20025 and all relevant legislation including:

Children Act 1989 and 2004

Care Act 2014

Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Liberty Protection Safeguards (when implemented)

NHS Act 2006

Domestic Abuse Act 2021

Serious Violence Duty2023

Ensuring that the NHS can take forward the Safeguarding reforms being implemented as part of the Family First Partnership Programme.

Strategic Leadership

1. Support the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships in the statutory delivery for Safeguarding Adults and Children designated functions for a defined Place and for related workstreams at Place and System.

2. Act as the expert professional advisor to the Local Safeguarding Partnership and Board on safeguarding matters related to health.

3. Act as the expert professional advisor to the ICB on safeguarding matters including risks, priorities and statutory compliance.

4. Act as the expert professional advisor across the health economy as required.

5. Influence commissioning to ensure that safeguarding is embedded in all services, quality and transformation programmes.

6. Support the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships in the interpretation of national policy and legislation relating to safeguarding.

7. Lead and support the development of Policy and Procedures related to safeguarding.

8. Direct and support innovation and ensure efficiency and productivity is achieved in safeguarding through effective working at Place.

9. Provide leadership and direction on key safeguarding areas as part of the wider portfolio supporting other safeguarding nurses.

10. Responsible as line manager for a delivery of statutory safeguarding functions at place, line management of the specialist safeguarding nurse and for wider delivery of agreed safeguarding portfolio priorities across the footprint including devising of training fir safeguarding.

System Assurance and Quality

1. Support NHSE and the ICB in the system assurance processes relating to NHS Provider organisations in line with the NHSE Quality Strategy and including a range of Safeguarding Tools including SCAT and SCRT.

2. Ensure safeguarding is addressed as part of the service specifications, contract performance measures and service level agreements with provider organisations, and in the review of their on-going performance.

3. Provide assurance to the ICB Board that all commissioned and contracted providers meet statutory safeguarding requirements as outlined within the SAAF.

4. Lead safeguarding elements of quality assurance including:

Contract monitoring

Quality Schedules

CQC interface

Serious Incident oversight

5. Ensure providers meet safeguarding standards through contractual monitoring, quality schedules and serious incident oversight.

6. Analyse safeguarding data, themes and intelligence to identify system risks and drive improvement.

7. Ensure learning from reviews (SARS, CSPRS, DARDR, CDOPs) is embedded across the system.

8. Develop approaches to evidence impact and outcome of interventions to improve safeguarding practice.

Multi-agency Partnership

1. Represent the ICB at:

Safeguarding Adult Boards

Safeguarding Children Partnerships

Domestic Abuse Boards

Prevent/ Channel Panels

Strategic MAPPA

Community Safety Partnerships

2. Ensure effective Multi-Agency Arrangements are in place including information sharing.

3. Provide expert health input into multiagency safeguarding reviews as required.

Expert Clinical Advice

1. Provide expert safeguarding advice as required within the ICB and with all stakeholders.

2. Support and contribute information, give advice to help resolve complex enquiries that may have legal, ethical and professional implications.

3. Work with Business Intelligence to support commissioners with safeguarding performance and population risk indicators to inform commissioning decisions and monitoring frameworks.

4. Provide up to date specialist advice to support safeguarding related policy development

5. Provide specialist advice on:

Complex safeguarding cases involving all forms of abuse

Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty

Domestic Abuse

Exploitation (CSE, CCE, Modern slavery)

6. Digital safeguarding oversight.

7. Supporting system resilience.

Learning, improvement and Governance

1. Leading and supporting safeguarding innovation and transformation.

2. Ensure learning from incidents, audits and all reviews is translated into practice and system improvements including:

Safeguarding Adult Reviews

Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews

Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews

3. Maintain oversight of learning implementation from all reviews.

4. Lead the ICBs governance framework including safeguarding related policies, procedures and audit.

5. Produce high quality safeguarding reports for the ICB, SABS and SCPs.

6. Ensure accurate and timely completion of SCRT.

7. Maintain oversight of safeguarding risks and ensure timely escalation.

Workforce Development

1. Ensure training aligns with Intercollegiate Documents.

2. Provide and receive supervision allowing for reflection and restoration.

3. Provide professional leadership to Named and Specialist Safeguarding professionals across the system.

4. Support primary care with safeguarding advice.

Key Relationships

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Clinical and Quality Lead (Chief Nurse)

Deputy Chief Officer Safeguarding and Strategic Partnerships

Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse - NMC Masters degree or equivalent qualification in the relevant specialism/a related field, or equivalent level of demonstrable experience Evidence of professional and personal development at senior management level

Desirable

• Leadership/ Management Qualification Additional Safeguarding qualification Experience in commissioning Experience in quality assurance

Experience

Essential

• Extensive Safeguarding experience at a senior level In depth knowledge of: Children Act 1989/2004 Care Act 2024 Working Together 2023 SAAF MCA/DOLS Domestic Abuse Act Multi-agency Partnership Working Leading safeguarding systems Managing complex cases Workforce development/ training and provision of supervision Oversight of Provider safeguarding arrangements Participation in a wide range of statutory safeguarding reviews - SARs, DHRs and CSPRs Evidence of ability to make significant and successful contributions at a senior level Evidence of strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience of developing robust operational and strategic plans and strategies Clear and in-depth understanding of national NHS strategy and policy, and ability to translate this into strategic and operational outcomes Experience in building and nurturing strong and positive relationships with a range of stakeholders Knowledge of IT platforms relevant to the role Experience of managing potentially challenging, sensitive or contentious situations and/or characters

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS in addition to another sector Experience of directly line managing a team

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Wolverhampton City Council

St. Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will be responsible for strategic and operational management of the ICB designated safeguarding functions and ensuring the ICB fulfils all statutory safeguarding duties. The postholder will provide system leadership for a defined Place, managing the local safeguarding team and workstreams including the related strategic plan for their areas of activity. You will work with partners across the sector and wider to ensure delivery of strategic objectives. You will ensure the provision of safeguarding, child protection and adult expertise and leadership throughout locally defined health economy and multiagency partnerships. The role is pivotal to complex case management, improved partnership working, strategic planning, quality assurance and safeguarding improvement.

As a senior member of the team, you will be required to deputise for the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships as appropriate and to coordinate and oversee the work of Assistant Designated Nurses for Safeguarding working within the same geographical area, delivering key outcomes.

In carrying out your role, at least one of the agreed strategic anchors should be at the core of everything you do:

Commissioning for Value and Outcomes

Accelerating Neighbourhood Health at Pace

Making the Best Use of Digital Solutions in our Pathways

Financial Discipline / 2% Productivity

Advancing Health Equity

Integrated Partnership

You will be accountable for:

1. Ensuring the ICB meets all statutory safeguarding duties as defined in related documents including the Safeguarding Accountability and Assurance Framework (SAAF) 2024, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, Intercollegiate Documents for Children and Adults 20025 and all relevant legislation including:

Children Act 1989 and 2004

Care Act 2014

Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Liberty Protection Safeguards (when implemented)

NHS Act 2006

Domestic Abuse Act 2021

Serious Violence Duty2023

Ensuring that the NHS can take forward the Safeguarding reforms being implemented as part of the Family First Partnership Programme.

Strategic Leadership

1. Support the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships in the statutory delivery for Safeguarding Adults and Children designated functions for a defined Place and for related workstreams at Place and System.

2. Act as the expert professional advisor to the Local Safeguarding Partnership and Board on safeguarding matters related to health.

3. Act as the expert professional advisor to the ICB on safeguarding matters including risks, priorities and statutory compliance.

4. Act as the expert professional advisor across the health economy as required.

5. Influence commissioning to ensure that safeguarding is embedded in all services, quality and transformation programmes.

6. Support the Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships in the interpretation of national policy and legislation relating to safeguarding.

7. Lead and support the development of Policy and Procedures related to safeguarding.

8. Direct and support innovation and ensure efficiency and productivity is achieved in safeguarding through effective working at Place.

9. Provide leadership and direction on key safeguarding areas as part of the wider portfolio supporting other safeguarding nurses.

10. Responsible as line manager for a delivery of statutory safeguarding functions at place, line management of the specialist safeguarding nurse and for wider delivery of agreed safeguarding portfolio priorities across the footprint including devising of training fir safeguarding.

System Assurance and Quality

1. Support NHSE and the ICB in the system assurance processes relating to NHS Provider organisations in line with the NHSE Quality Strategy and including a range of Safeguarding Tools including SCAT and SCRT.

2. Ensure safeguarding is addressed as part of the service specifications, contract performance measures and service level agreements with provider organisations, and in the review of their on-going performance.

3. Provide assurance to the ICB Board that all commissioned and contracted providers meet statutory safeguarding requirements as outlined within the SAAF.

4. Lead safeguarding elements of quality assurance including:

Contract monitoring

Quality Schedules

CQC interface

Serious Incident oversight

5. Ensure providers meet safeguarding standards through contractual monitoring, quality schedules and serious incident oversight.

6. Analyse safeguarding data, themes and intelligence to identify system risks and drive improvement.

7. Ensure learning from reviews (SARS, CSPRS, DARDR, CDOPs) is embedded across the system.

8. Develop approaches to evidence impact and outcome of interventions to improve safeguarding practice.

Multi-agency Partnership

1. Represent the ICB at:

Safeguarding Adult Boards

Safeguarding Children Partnerships

Domestic Abuse Boards

Prevent/ Channel Panels

Strategic MAPPA

Community Safety Partnerships

2. Ensure effective Multi-Agency Arrangements are in place including information sharing.

3. Provide expert health input into multiagency safeguarding reviews as required.

Expert Clinical Advice

1. Provide expert safeguarding advice as required within the ICB and with all stakeholders.

2. Support and contribute information, give advice to help resolve complex enquiries that may have legal, ethical and professional implications.

3. Work with Business Intelligence to support commissioners with safeguarding performance and population risk indicators to inform commissioning decisions and monitoring frameworks.

4. Provide up to date specialist advice to support safeguarding related policy development

5. Provide specialist advice on:

Complex safeguarding cases involving all forms of abuse

Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty

Domestic Abuse

Exploitation (CSE, CCE, Modern slavery)

6. Digital safeguarding oversight.

7. Supporting system resilience.

Learning, improvement and Governance

1. Leading and supporting safeguarding innovation and transformation.

2. Ensure learning from incidents, audits and all reviews is translated into practice and system improvements including:

Safeguarding Adult Reviews

Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews

Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews

3. Maintain oversight of learning implementation from all reviews.

4. Lead the ICBs governance framework including safeguarding related policies, procedures and audit.

5. Produce high quality safeguarding reports for the ICB, SABS and SCPs.

6. Ensure accurate and timely completion of SCRT.

7. Maintain oversight of safeguarding risks and ensure timely escalation.

Workforce Development

1. Ensure training aligns with Intercollegiate Documents.

2. Provide and receive supervision allowing for reflection and restoration.

3. Provide professional leadership to Named and Specialist Safeguarding professionals across the system.

4. Support primary care with safeguarding advice.

Key Relationships

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Clinical and Quality Lead (Chief Nurse)

Deputy Chief Officer Safeguarding and Strategic Partnerships

Associate Director for Safeguarding and Partnerships

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse - NMC Masters degree or equivalent qualification in the relevant specialism/a related field, or equivalent level of demonstrable experience Evidence of professional and personal development at senior management level

Desirable

• Leadership/ Management Qualification Additional Safeguarding qualification Experience in commissioning Experience in quality assurance

Experience

Essential

• Extensive Safeguarding experience at a senior level In depth knowledge of: Children Act 1989/2004 Care Act 2024 Working Together 2023 SAAF MCA/DOLS Domestic Abuse Act Multi-agency Partnership Working Leading safeguarding systems Managing complex cases Workforce development/ training and provision of supervision Oversight of Provider safeguarding arrangements Participation in a wide range of statutory safeguarding reviews - SARs, DHRs and CSPRs Evidence of ability to make significant and successful contributions at a senior level Evidence of strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience of developing robust operational and strategic plans and strategies Clear and in-depth understanding of national NHS strategy and policy, and ability to translate this into strategic and operational outcomes Experience in building and nurturing strong and positive relationships with a range of stakeholders Knowledge of IT platforms relevant to the role Experience of managing potentially challenging, sensitive or contentious situations and/or characters

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS in addition to another sector Experience of directly line managing a team

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Black Country Integrated Care Board

Address

Wolverhampton City Council

St. Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1SH

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://blackcountry.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)