Deputy Chief Officer - Care Integration in Birmingham

Do you have the strategic leadership skills to shape and deliver integrated, place-based health and care at scale? This is a rare opportunity to join NHS Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Cluster ICB as Deputy Chief Officer Care Integration. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will play a key role in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan, driving integrated, neighbourhood and place-based care to improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and maximise system resources.

As a senior system leader, you will work with executive colleagues, local authorities, providers, VCSE partners and citizens to lead commissioning strategy, outcomes frameworks and governance that support integrated care models across the ICB, ensuring alignment between commissioning, transformation and delivery. You will focus on advancing health equity, strengthening neighbourhood health, building integrated partnerships and maintaining financial discipline and productivity. Working closely with Board level stakeholders, Place Partnerships and system partners, you will operate confidently in complex environments, influencing across organisational boundaries and providing assurance at executive and Board level.

Main duties of the job

As Deputy Chief Officer for Care Integration, you will provide system-wide leadership for integration commissioning and neighbourhood health, with significant responsibility for strategy, delivery and assurance. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the system-wide integration commissioning strategy and outcomes framework aligned to national and local priorities.
• Designing, mobilising and overseeing delivery of integrated care and neighbourhood health models.
• Leading development and operation of Place Committee arrangements and effective delegation to place.
• Leading commissioning approaches for NHS Anchor organisations to support place-based outcomes and social value.
• Acting as SRO for integration and community transformation programmes, aligning commissioning, transformation and delivery.
• Providing professional and line management leadership to Heads of Programme and Programme Directors.
• Ensuring delivery of quality, access, productivity and inequality outcomes.
• Providing assurance to Executive Directors, Board and committees on progress, risks and benefits.
• Supporting a system place and Executive Director within Place governance arrangements.
• Leading and influencing regional commissioning, including engagement with West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

• Strong grasp of and ability to analyse highly complex data and information from multiple sources.
• Strong analytical and data evaluation skills, with the ability to solve complex problems often in the absence of required information.
• Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve excellence in everything we do.
• Excellent communication skills in all formats with the ability to present highly complex data in multiple clear and concise formats.
• Ability to analyse and interpret very complex financial and non-financial data, and present this in a clear and intelligent way.
• Able to operate in complex environments where strong and credible leadership is required to diffuse difficult situations.
• Able to demonstrate an aptitude for working in a complex matrix management environment involving very senior staff both internally and externally.
• Able to impart difficult and sensitive information to staff in an appropriate manner.
• Able to respond to challenging internal and at times externally driven deadlines.
• Able to communicate to seek agreement and cooperation against objectives with strong influencing skills.
• Commitment to and focus on quality, promoting high standards in all that you do.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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

Mobility

Ability and willingness to travel to sites across the cluster as required.

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree level in relevant subject, or equivalent level qualification, or significant demonstrable experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
• Membership of relevant professional body.
• Significant evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Postgraduate study in leadership and management or equivalent level of training or experience.
• A broad range of extensive knowledge in more than one specialist area, acquired through postgraduate masters or equivalent experience, plus further specialist knowledge or experience.

Experience

• Expert knowledge of integrated care system and new care models.
• Significant knowledge and experience of how to facilitate collaborative working in complex systems.
• Significant expertise in leading system change.
• Excellent understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy.
• Significant experience of operating at a senior level in complex organisational environment.
• Significant experience of senior level decision making and effective delivery in ambiguous and changing environments.
• Substantial experience of working independently with Board level stakeholders to deliver objectives.
• Significant experience of working with senior leaders and clinicians with the ability to motivate, persuade and negotiate.
• Significant experience of sensitively engaging a broad range of stakeholders in programmes of work, including working with patients and the public.
• Previous responsibility for multiple budgets including involvement in budget setting, and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office programmes with advanced keyboard skills.
• A thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Personal Qualities

• Adaptability, flexibility and willingness to challenge yourself.
• 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.
• Determination, perseverance and resilience.

Autonomy

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

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.