Deputy Director CHC / AACC / S117 Delivery and Transformation

The specific responsibilities of this post are to:

• Lead CHC operational strategy and transformation programmes for the 128 months following appointment developing forward plans for following years
• Manage a significant budget ensuring financial probity and delivery of agreed savings across the Cluster ICBs
• Deliver a new model of operational delivery across the cluster that maximises integration and improvement.
• Oversee all aspects of delivery including appeals, complaints, FOIs and SARs
• Lead S117 oversight and joint funding processes
• Provide strategic leadership for market management and brokerage
• Ensure compliance with national frameworks and statutory guidance
• Lead CHC teams across the three ICB footprints
• Manage change programmes driving efficiency, consistency and high-quality outcomes
• Implement redesigned models of CHC and individual care packages
• Oversee CHC risk, performance, and reporting, The Deputy Director CHC/AACC/S117 Delivery and Transformation is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for the delivery, transformation and oversight of Continuing Healthcare, Childrens Continuing Care, Section 117 aftercare, joint funding, personal health budgets and individual packages of care across the ICB cluster. The postholder will lead large-scale service improvement and transformation programmes, ensuring services are efficient, consistent, financially sustainable and compliant with national frameworks and statutory guidance. The role provides expert strategic advice on CHC-related operational, business and financial matters, with responsibility for managing significant budgets, delivering agreed savings and ensuring value for money. The postholder will oversee performance, quality assurance, risk management, appeals, complaints, FOIs and SARs, while developing new models of CHC delivery and care package management. Job description, The Deputy Director CHC/AACC/S117 Delivery and Transformation is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for the delivery, transformation and oversight of Continuing Healthcare, Childrens Continuing Care, Section 117 aftercare, joint funding, personal health budgets and individual packages of care across the ICB cluster. The postholder will lead large-scale service improvement and transformation programmes, ensuring services are efficient, consistent, financially sustainable and compliant with national frameworks and statutory guidance. The role provides expert strategic advice on CHC-related operational, business and financial matters, with responsibility for managing significant budgets, delivering agreed savings and ensuring value for money. The postholder will oversee performance, quality assurance, risk management, appeals, complaints, FOIs and SARs, while developing new models of CHC delivery and care package management.
Person Specification Knowledge, Training and Experience Essential

This post is essential to the effective delivery and transformation of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, NHS Lincolnshire and NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Cluster ICBs All Age Continuing Care/CHC/S117/ Services moving forward. The post is open to those with either a current Clinical or Professional Qualification and will work as the formal Deputy to the Director of Quality, Safeguarding, CHC and Partnerships in respect of these Services. You will have significant experience of these specialist areas of work and experience of significant service transformation along with a collaborative and compassionate style of leadership and management.,
• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent;
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, and individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Member of relevant professional body either clinical or non-clinical
Communication Skills Essential
• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
• Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
• Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively, High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions
• High level critical thinking skills
• Ability to develop, maintain and monitor information systems to support innovation initiatives
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
Planning Skills Essential
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
Management Skills Essential
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership
Physical Skills Essential
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Autonomy Essential
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Financial and Physical Resources Essential
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
  
  NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the organisation responsible for:
• planning to meet local health needs
• managing the NHS budget and allocating resources
• ensuring services are in place to deliver against ambitions
• overseeing delivery of improved outcomes for their population.
NHS Derby and Derbyshire is part of the Joined Up Care Derbyshire integrated health and care system, working with partners in our local authorities, the voluntary sector and others, and helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.